Jacobs has expanded its partnership with Palantir Technologies to use the latter’s AI capabilities to commercialize new AI-enabled data solutions for critical infrastructure, advanced facilities and supply chain management applications. According to Shannon Miller, Jacobs’s executive vice president and president for divergent solutions and a 4×24 member, her company has begun deploying AI in the […]
Lockheed Martin will work with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Aviation and Missile Center to connect ground-based platforms with satellites to advance beyond-line-of-sight connectivity. The effort will be conducted under a cooperative research and development agreement, which provides the company access to AvMC’s System Integration Lab, where concepts of operations for linking defense […]
The Department of State is pushing for the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702, which allows the intelligence community to collect electronic communications content from non-U.S. persons to acquire foreign intelligence information. At a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, Brett Holmgren, the assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of […]
The Department of Defense has submitted its classified 2023 cyber strategy to Congress. The document is in line with the 2022 National Defense Strategy and complements the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy. An unclassified version will be released in the coming months, the Department of Defense said. According to a fact sheet, the cyber strategy is […]
The North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Space Force have awarded Jacobs a contract to provide digital capabilities, products and tools in support of their digital transformation. Under the contract, Jacobs’ Critical Missions Solutions teams demonstrated how the company’s data solutions enable the transition from legacy systems and showed their ability to convert […]
The U.S. Army is planning to select contractors that will provide artificial intelligence and machine learning-related services under one of the multiple contract awards for Project Linchpin in March or April 2024. Speaking at an industry technical exchange meeting, Col. Chris Anderson, project manager for intelligence systems in the Army’s program executive office for intelligence, […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is asking vendors to propose commercial technologies capable of turning manned vehicles into autonomous systems. In a solicitation, DIU said it seeks networking and communications systems, autonomy critical hardware, graphical user interfaces for vehicle command and control, teleoperation enhancements, and autonomous navigation software, among other commercial solutions. The products should be […]
Northrop Grumman will start producing two Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar missile-warning satellites for the Space Systems Command after clearing a preliminary design review. The company received a $47 million contract in 2018 for designing the polar satellites, called Eagle-3, and was awarded a $2.37 billion contract in 2020 to begin the development of […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is planning to host an industry day on June 6 to discuss with potential vendors the changes it made in a draft statement of work for a small business set-aside management consulting services contract expected to be awarded in September. According to the updated draft, the selected contractor will […]
The 805th Combat Training Squadron deployed a prototype of Raytheon Missiles & Defense’s Airspace Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution software during a field experiment. The event was aimed at enhancing airspace management and joint fires integrations between the tactical command and control units of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. Development objectives […]
