The U.S. Air Force will deploy Curtiss-Wright’s PacStar integrated solution, designed for tactical networking and connectivity in rugged and remote environments worldwide, in its Theater Deployable Communications program. Along with the PacStar solution, Curtiss-Wright will also provide the Air Force with its Commercial Solutions for Classified integration under a $16 million task order that the […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that it has selected six concepts for a vertical take-off and landing uncrewed X-plane from nine design ideas submitted during Phase Ia of its AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY, or ANCILLARY, program. The six companies behind the concepts – AeroVironment, Griffon Aerospace, Karem Aircraft, Method Aeronautics, Northrop […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted FedRAMP Ready status to Tel-Aviv, Israel-based Coralogix, enabling the company to offer its analytics pipeline to U.S. government agencies. The company’s observability platform, now available on the FedRAMP Marketplace, includes such features as log analytics, application performance monitoring, real user monitoring and security information and event […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command have signed a binding partnership agreement to advance their Constellation pilot program designed to accelerate the delivery of cyber technologies to the Department of Defense. Launched in 2022, the program lays the path for rapidly developing cyber solutions from concept to application, with mechanisms […]
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2025 Navy budget request that the service branch will spend more on directed energy weapons, such as lasers, to reduce the cost of counter-drone and anti-missile solutions. Del Toro, 2024 Wash100 winner and a past Potomac Officers […]
BlueHalo will leverage learnings from the deployments of its Locust Laser Weapon System in a $95.4 million contract for advanced directed energy prototype development that it won under the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Laser Technology Research Development and Optimization program. According to the company, its tasks will focus on advancing the performance […]
Cybersecurity firm VMD announced that 1 Mission Partners, its joint venture with Nelson Enterprise Technology Services, has secured a $23 million contract to supply intel, cyber and electromagnetic spectrum superiority services to the U.S. Air Force headquarters. 1MP’s direct client at the Air Force HQ for the five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is the deputy chief of […]
Marshall University’s Institute of Cyber Security in Huntington, West Virginia, will be home to the National Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure, with the groundbreaking ceremony completed for the facility on Friday. Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command’s Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network, one of the center’s […]
The Department of Defense announced that a Regional Sustainment Framework has been created for a distributed logistics ecosystem on maintenance, repair and overhaul capabilities in U.S. military theaters of operations. William LaPlante, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment and a Wash100 awardee and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said the RSF will […]
The Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office plans to hold an industry session in August for the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve, envisioned for voluntary support to space missions in times of war or crisis. Col. Richard Kniseley, senior materiel leader of COMSO, disclosed that the event is geared toward issuing the first CASR contracts, including […]
