Lockheed Martin will support the Missile Defense Agency in developing the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system. On Thursday, the MDA announced that it had awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ceiling amount of $4.1 billion and an ordering period from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2029. The C2BMC-Next initiative involves […]
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Chandra Donelson as its acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer, concurrent with her position as Space Force space data and AI officer, the DAF’s chief information officer announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. Eileen Vidrine, who retired in March, previously held the Air Force CDAO […]
The Defense Health Agency has awarded ASRC Federal two contracts totaling $103 million to provide critical health care policy and information technology infrastructure support, ASRC Federal said. Agile Decision Sciences, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, secured a $73 million contract to provide health readiness, policy and oversight services. The five-year contract will see ASRC Federal […]
Lockheed Martin will develop an airborne electronic defense system based on Sensor Open Systems Architecture with low size, weight and power requirements for the U.S. Navy’s MH-60R multimission helicopter. The SOSA technology will use Altera’s Multi-Chip Package based on the company’s Agilex 9 SoC FPGA Direct RF-Series and will be built, tested and produced through […]
The U.S. Army has awarded BlueHalo a four-year logistics support contract to provide preventative and corrective maintenance for the Palletized High Energy Laser system. P-HEL, developed by BlueHalo for the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, is designed to defeat small unmanned aerial system threats. The counter-UAS system is integrated with the Locust Laser […]
HII’s Mission Technologies division has secured a $74 million contract to enhance the capabilities of the Mk 41 and Mk 57 vertical launching systems of U.S. Navy surface vessels. The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme Division administers the task order, which also covers Navy weapon and combat systems, as well as sensors. The tasks […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Akamai Technologies an other transaction agreement contract to develop software prototypes supporting its Tactical-Identity Credential and Access Management project, a critical step in achieving its zero trust network security goals. Part of the Army’s Unified Network Operations program, T-ICAM implements a security paradigm that continuously evaluates user and device permissions, […]
The National Security Agency has promoted Dave Luber to the role of director of the Cybersecurity Directorate, replacing Rob Joyce, who stepped down after more than three decades of service to the NSA. Before assuming the role, Luber was the deputy director of cybersecurity. In his new role, he oversees the directorate, which is responsible […]
The U.S. Southern Command, the European Command and the Africa Command are reportedly interested in replacing their legacy Joint Regional Security Stacks with the zero trust security and network architecture that Booz Allen Hamilton provided to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Thunderdome program. According to Federal News Network, Thunderdome will help the commands replace their […]
The U.S. Army and the Defense Innovation Unit have awarded Overland AI a prototype other transaction agreement to develop autonomous navigation for the Robotic Combat Vehicle program. The 24-month award, with a ceiling of $18.6 million, is part of the Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways project, which seeks to accelerate the Army’s adoption of autonomous vehicles, […]
