Fairfax, Virginia-based General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced a $335.1 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Navy extending full lifecycle and operational support for Trident II Fire Control Systems onboard Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines through 2028. The contract also continues development and installation work for FCSs on new Columbia-class SSBNs and concept design for the […]
Mobix Labs has started delivering filtered connector parts for the U.S. Navy’s Tomahawk Cruise Missile. Newsweek reported that the United States government maintains thousands of Tomahawk missiles in its arsenal and vessels scattered in every corner of the globe. Raytheon, the missile’s manufacturer, said that the ammunition is capable of striking “targets precisely from 1,000 […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded CACI International a potential five-year, $81 million task order to support the National Media Exploitation Center. Under the Storefront and Dissemination Support task order, CACI will provide global IT operations, sustainment and modernization support to improve data dissemination for the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. Services […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have established the Empire State Quantum Network to boost the labs’ quantum communication and collaboration. Formed through a memorandum of understanding signed in December 2023, the labs’ initiative will explore near- and long-term quantum networking opportunities between AFRL’s Distributed Quantum Networking Testbed […]
The U.S. Army has issued a request for information on ideal contracting means for an interceptor missile that can defeat various threats. According to the RFI posted on Jan. 25, the Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 system will be used to protect fixed and semi-fixed sites from various threats, including subsonic and supersonic cruise […]
The Department of Defense is still on schedule with its Replicator program to deploy thousands of unmanned systems across multiple battlefields by early 2025, Aditi Kumar, the Defense Innovation Unit’s deputy director of strategy, policy and national security partnerships, said. The DIU is pinpointing all hurdles and working on the solutions to accelerate the Replicator’s […]
RTX business Raytheon has secured a $154 million contract to provide the U.S. Army with Commander’s Independent Viewer systems. An electro-optical and infrared sight system, the CIV uses second-generation forward-looking infrared cameras and sensors to give Bradley Fighting Vehicle operators a 360-degree view of the battlefield, as well as early threat detection, battlefield oversight and […]
BAE Systems has announced that Data Link Solutions, a joint venture with RTX subsidiary Collins Aerospace, secured a U.S. Navy contract to provide small Link 16 radios. DLS will fulfill the contract by delivering FireNet Link 16 tactical systems, BAE said Wednesday. FireNet, BAE explained, is a secure and open communications solution with a unified […]
The Department of Defense has issued a request for information on technologies that could be included in Thunderstorm 24-2, a field demonstration and experimentation event that will focus on new solutions for persistent sensors and related technologies. Sensors are critical in U.S. military branches’ operations, with the technologies’ capability for continuous and real-time environment monitoring […]
Fabless semiconductor company Mobix Labs has started delivering guidance system components for the U.S. Army’s Javelin Missile Systems. The components will be delivered under a contract awarded to the Javelin Joint Venture, a partnership between RTX and Lockheed Martin. The contract was awarded to meet a growing demand for the Javelin, a weapon system co-developed […]
