The U.S. Navy has selected McLean, Virginia-based defense contractor V2X as one of the six companies that will receive task orders under the Global Contingency Services Multiple Award Contract III of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific. The contract has a maximum $2 billion value and is expected to be completed in September 2032, […]
The U.S. Cyber Command has established an artificial intelligence task force with the application of AI in cybersecurity as one of its goals, Gen. Timothy Haugh, CYBERCOM commander, said in his opening keynote speech at the Vanderbilt University’s Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats on Wednesday. The task force is part of the integrated […]
Palantir’s AI Mission Command Capability and Predictive Maintenance and its Precision Sustainment Suite have been granted “awardable” status under the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace of the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office. According to Palantir, the two capabilities both support DOD initiatives to harness artificial intelligence on strategies such as the Joint All-Domain […]
Dan Smoot, Maxar Intelligence’s new CEO, has disclosed that the company will explore market opportunities beyond its traditional geospatial imagery and focus on new data products, such as 3D mapping. Smoot, a 4×24 member, told SpaceNews that the company will undertake the diversification initiatives once its WorldView Legion satellite constellation has been deployed. He added […]
NASA has announced that its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s moon Titan will be launched in July 2028, with President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget request allocating $3.35 billion for the total lifecycle cost of the project. The agency’s confirmation of the mission launch will enable the completion of the rotorcraft’s final design, which […]
The U.S. Army has placed its first order of L3Harris Technologies’ Enhanced Night Vision Goggle–Binocular worth $256 million under a full-scale production indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth a potential $886 million that the company won in December 2022. L3Harris pointed out that its ENVG-B systems’ figure of merit levels enable improved situational awareness at farther distances at […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential $12 billion contract to Guidehouse to provide systems engineering and integration services to support the service branch’s transition from the current land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the Minuteman III, to its successor, the LGM-35 Sentinel. A single-award task order with an 18-year performance period, the ICBM integration support contract calls for […]
Microsoft has released guidance on configuring its cloud services for the Department of Defense and its industry partners to achieve zero trust capabilities. Steve Faehl, Microsoft’s federal security chief technology officer, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that the guide features the applications of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure Government available to DOD customers […]
Google Cloud has launched new training courses and certifications on generative artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data analytics to help open job opportunities, with the Department of the Treasury as one of the initial employer-partners. Karen Dahut, Google Public Sector CEO and a 2024 Wash100 award winner, wrote in a blog post that the trainings are free, […]
Pittsburgh-based engineering simulation company Ansys is now a member of BAE Systems’ Mission Advantage technology partnership program, under which it will help BAE’s Department of Defense customers advance their adoption of digital and model-based systems engineering. Ansys’ entry into the program aligns with a DOD directive issued in December addressing digital engineering methodologies, technologies and […]
