The U.S. Army will pursue its program to acquire aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors and integrated networks to enable multiple intelligence capabilities through a $631 million task order that the service branch has awarded to Leidos. According to the Reston, Virginia-based company, it will work with the Army’s Project Director Sensors-Aerial Intelligence in the […]
Researchers and scientists from U.S. national laboratories have collaborated on a new report on artificial intelligence approaches that the Department of Energy can use to accelerate renewable energy development at lesser risks and costs. Behind the report titled “AI for Energy” are the Argonne National Laboratory, the DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy […]
New York City-based blockchain intelligence company Chainalysis Government Solutions announced that its Crypto Investigations solution has received an in-process designation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. An offering of the company’s Chainalysis Government Solutions, the platform is designed for law enforcers, including intelligence, tax and regulatory agents, to uncover leads, assess illicit activities, […]
L3Harris Technologies, one of the contractors of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program, said it is planning a late 2025 flight testing of its newly developed communications terminal integrating military-owned and commercial constellations on a military aircraft. AFRL initiated the program in 2018 to harness commercial satellite internet service […]
Global defense contractor V2X will provide technical support to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific’s communication, electronic and computer networks under a contract worth a potential $88 million that the McLean, Virginia-based company disclosed on Thursday. NCTAMS PAC is the U.S. Navy’s main communication hub across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, providing […]
NASA has announced that applications are now open for its 2024 solicitation of proposals from academic institutions, nonprofits and businesses on technologies that will support the agency’s Artemis moon missions and future Mars exploration. Almost $1.5 million in NASA funding has already been awarded to 24 projects under the solicitation program dubbed Dual-Use Technology Development […]
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has placed a new task order with Houston, Texas-based science, technology and engineering company KBR for operations, maintenance and security at its facilities in Washington, D.C. The new indefinite-quantity/indefinite-quantity recompete contract, valued at an estimated $34 million, covers five years and expands KBR’s scope and services to include the NRL […]
NASA has selected nine companies for initial studies on commercial services that could support less costly and more frequent missions to Mars. The selected firms’ work is divided into four concept categories for a total of 12 studies. Some companies, such as Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin, will work on more than one study category. Chosen […]
The Space Development Agency has tapped Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing company based in El Segundo, California, to build eight satellites for integration into the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter program of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a mesh satellite communications network. Millennium’s satellite constellation will contribute sensors to the FOO Fighter program, which will complement […]
A series of recently completed field tests is advancing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Manta Ray unmanned underwater vehicle program to the next phase of testing for transition to the U.S. Navy. According to the agency, the latest tests involved Northrop Grumman’s demonstration of a Manta Ray prototype off the Southern California coast in […]
