John Beieler, science and technology director at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has been appointed as the agency’s concurrent chief artificial intelligence officer. Beieler announced his appointment in a speech at an Intelligence and National Security Alliance event in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday. The additional ODNI role confers to Beieler the leadership […]
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has completed a demonstration of its OpenSpace Platform as a fully virtualized low Earth orbit satellite communications ground system for connecting U.S. Army missions. Kratos partnered with Telesat Government Solutions and Cobham Satcom in the demo for establishing simultaneous and resilient satellite communication using LEO constellations. Satellites in LEO orbit […]
Commercial satellite communication equipment, bandwidth and service packages are being distributed to several overseas U.S. Army units with regional world coverage to pilot test the service branch’s Satellite Communications as a Managed Service. The SaaMS pilot program seeks to determine the feasibility of the Army leasing satellite communication capabilities at the time of need instead […]
Ultra Intelligence & Communications has announced the launch of its Archer family of troposcatter communication systems to the global defense market, after a demonstration of the beyond-line-of-sight platform’s ability to maintain communications beyond 185 kilometers. According to the company, such linking capability meets U.S. Army range requirements for a resilient and secure communications layer. Chris […]
The Maritime Sustainment Technology and Innovation Consortium, a collaboration team of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division, has tasked Salem, Ohio-based Hunt Valve, a unit of Fairbanks Morse Defense, to design a 3D-printed valve assembly for U.S. Navy submarines. According to Fairbanks Morse Defense, the MSTIC task marks the first time that additive manufacturing […]
Boeing will continue testing critical U.S. defense platforms at the Little Mountain Test Facility at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, under a new five-year contract of up to $559 million from the U.S. Air Force. The defense and space company has been operating and maintaining the facility since 1974, performing extreme environmental tests on intercontinental […]
A flight demonstration of the XQ-58A Valkyrie uncrewed aerial vehicle has shown that it is capable of an integrated electronic attack working with two F-35 jet fighters, according to Kratos Defense & Security Solutions. Kratos said the live flight test by its unmanned systems unit wraps up the first phase of the U.S. Marine Corps’ […]
The Department of the Air Force has issued a sources-sought notice for an artificial intelligence and machine learning platform capable of improving the reaction times of the service branch’s Air Force Battle Management, Command and Control, which operates under the service’s Advanced Battle Management System. According to a request for information posted on SAM .gov, […]
Maryland-based cybersecurity solutions company Ardalyst has named Carahsoft as the public sector distributor of its Tesseract cyber tool, designed for compliance with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification and Defense Industrial Base standards. Under the companies’ distributorship agreement, the Ardalyst solution will also be made available to government contractors through Carahsoft’s reseller partners. Tesseract is a three-in-one […]
Defense and aerospace company Northrop Grumman has conferred a Supplier Excellence Award to CAES for its defense systems deliveries to the company’s mission, defense and space sectors. CAES President and CEO Mike Kahn, a 4×24 member, expressed pride in CAES meeting the high standards of excellence and the partnership value that the award represents. The […]
