The Department of Defense has awarded $20 million to South32 through the Defense Production Act Investment Program, supporting the latter’s Hermosa Project in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, to produce battery-grade manganese sustainably. The initiative aligns with the 2024 National Defense Industrial Strategy to enhance domestic production and strengthen the industry’s supply chain resilience, Defense .gov […]
Two Canadian companies have received a total of $14.9 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to ensure resilient cobalt and graphite supply for the North American nations. Awarded through the Defense Production Act Investment program, Fortune Minerals Ltd. received $6.5 million, which will help complete a feasibility study of the company’s NICO Project, a […]
Lockheed Martin announced that it has booked a $756 million contract to provide additional battery equipment to the U.S. Army’s ground-based Long Range Hypersonic Weapon system. Steve Layne, vice president of Lockheed’s Hypersonic Strike Weapons Systems, expressed the company’s pride in continuing the work on developing U.S. hypersonic strike capability, noting that the contract will […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $54 million contract to BAE Systems to build an airborne radio frequency decoy system capable of protecting fighter jets from adversarial attacks. The dual-band decoy, an RF self-protection jammer based on the AN/ALE-55 fiber-optic towed decoy, will feature custom integrated circuits; reduced size, weight and power; and “a towed […]
The Department of Defense has awarded EchoStar an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling value of $2.3 billion to provide 5G wireless services and devices to the DOD and other federal agencies. The contract, awarded through the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command’s Spiral 4 purchasing program, will be fulfilled by EchoStar subsidiaries Hughes Network Systems and […]
The U.S. Army has rolled out the first phase of the Global Commercial Solutions for Classified program. The Global Secure Network program will deploy a secure internet protocol router-consolidated security suite, providing service members access to classified networks regardless of location. The service branch aims to have the program operational by fiscal year 2025. The […]
The U.S. Air Force will soon complete its Joint Simulation Environment next-generation training and test facility. Located at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, the JSE received its core software after the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division recently completed its installation. The core software comes with digital elements that offer simulated variables such […]
Leidos and Elroy Air have received approval to demonstrate their autonomous Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle-Expeditionary Logistics prototype for the Marine Corps. An initiative of the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems program office, MARV-EL is an unmanned logistics solution aimed at offering Marines a reliable way to receive supplies in situations where […]
The Naval Sea Systems Command’s Integrated Warfare Systems Engineering Group has assigned to digital transformation company VTG a range of tasks to support its warfare systems under a five-year, $130 million contract. According to the Chantilly, Virginia-based company, the fleet-focused task order it received includes end-to-end engineering support, spectrum management and test and evaluation […]
Lockheed Martin has secured a $451 million contract from the U.S. Army to recapitalize more M270 systems as part of an effort to expand its domestic fleet of launchers and make some available for international partners. The recapitalization involves a complete overhaul of the systems, upgrading the launchers with brand new engines, improved armored cabs and the new Common […]
