X-Bow Systems announced that it won a $64 million contract from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy to provide solid rocket motors to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. X-Bow’s SRMs will provide boost propulsion for the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapon and the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic […]
Machine learning-enabled situational awareness solutions provider TurbineOne announced that the Department of Defense has added its Frontline Perception System to Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. FPS is an artificial intelligence- and ML-enabled threat detector that allows users to build and deploy computer-powered recognition algorithms on the field and in operation centers. The system, which does not require […]
Communications & Power Industries’ Antenna Technologies division has received a $30 million-plus subcontract from Peraton to provide Earth station antennas for NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program. CPI will provide three gateway antenna systems for the SCaN Lunar Exploration Ground Sites projects. The antennas, measuring 20 meters in diameter each and operating in the X […]
Carahsoft Technology has entered into a Master Government Aggregator agreement with Illumio to offer its zero trust platform to the public sector. As Master Government Aggregator, Carahsoft will offer Illumio’s Zero Trust Segmentation platform through various resellers and government contracts. ZTS is a breach containment platform that allows customers to restrict access to high-value applications, […]
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Parsons a potential five-year, $53 million task order to support the organization’s counter-weapons of mass destruction proliferation efforts. Parsons will provide solutions that would help DTRA improve its anti-WMD proliferation capabilities. According to Parsons, its technologies can help customers detect, interdict and recover WMDs and related items at […]
Mattermost’s vice president and general manager for the North America public sector said military leaders must keep military chat capabilities agile and optimal as they build the Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept. Barry Duplantis, a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer and a 4×24 member, said in a C4ISRNET opinion piece that “ChatOps” is […]
The U.S. Army has subjected Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Battle Management System to real-world scenarios and tested its ability to take on additional missions. Rebecca Torzone, vice president and general manager of command systems and mission readiness at Northrop, said the recent tests showed the system’s ability to defend the United States against cruise missile and […]
The U.S. Army’s chief information officer said that cloud contracting migration is one of his top three priorities and that he has already issued directives to get components to transition into the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. In an interview with Federal News Network, Leo Garciga said he issued two guidance memoranda centered […]
The U.S. Army’s Program Manager Defensive Cyber Operations has introduced two new programs to help the service improve its cybersecurity and information-sharing capabilities. PM DCO announced the Cyber Platforms and Systems and the Cyber Analytics and Detection programs, which Robert Zoppa, project manager for DCO, said would help with the Army’s information dominance and decision-making […]
The U.S. Space Force has reached a milestone in consolidating space missions across the military services by assuming official control of the Joint Tactical Ground Station missile warning system from the U.S. Army. JTAGS are ground-based systems located in Italy, Qatar, South Korea and Japan that warn soldiers about ballistic missile launches. The systems are […]
