The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency plans to post a draft request for quotations for its Digital Transformation Support Services solicitation on May 8. According to a special notice CISA posted on SAM .gov, the DTSS opportunity is for women-owned small businesses only and is set aside for companies that hold Special Item Numbers for […]
The U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office has designated a piece of artificial intelligence-powered software as its first Condition Based Maintenance Plus and predictive maintenance system of record. The Predictive Analysis and Decision Assistant is an AI software toolkit developed by the RSO and C3 AI that brings technologies and information infrastructure to facilitate CBM+ […]
President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Gen. Charles Brown Jr., the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brown, a career F-16 pilot with over 3,000 flight hours, has been a long-time runner for the Joint Chiefs position. If approved, he would serve […]
The U.S. Cyber Command is planning to build the next generation of the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture to allow users to address mission needs. Speaking at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s TechNet Cyber conference, Michael Clark, director for cyber acquisition and technology at CYBERCOM, said officials reviewed the JCWA and found that it […]
Javelin Joint Venture, a collaboration between Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Missiles & Defense, has secured a potential $7.2 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Army for the Javelin weapon system and associated equipment and services. The IDIQ includes a base year with $1.02 billion in authorizing funds, which supports the increase of Javelin All-Up Round […]
Booz Allen Hamilton said its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, made a strategic investment in responsible artificial intelligence company Credo AI. The investment will allow Booz Allen to integrate Credo AI’s governance software platform, bringing responsible AI into model development, testing, deployment and monitoring pipelines and ecosystems. The deal would also help AI […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has signed an agreement with Proteus Ocean Group to advance marine science, research and education and create a better understanding of the ocean’s environment. NOAA will use the PROTEUS underwater station, a facility that will be built off Curacao island to allow scientists, innovators and other individuals to study […]
The United States has launched an eight-month training pilot for the Department of Defense’s offensive cyber warriors, a program that the commanding general of the Army Cyber Center of Excellence said could create significant cost savings. Speaking at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s TechNet Cyber conference, Maj. Gen. Paul Stanton shared that the […]
Raytheon Technologies has selected CesiumAstro to provide Ka-band, multi-beam communications systems to seven vehicles supporting the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. CesiumAstro Vireo is an active electronically scanned array radio frequency communications payload that can create multiple steerable and shapable beams when working together. It is designed to support various defense and commercial […]
NASA has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environment Satellites-U weather satellite completed a solar array test deployment. During the test, engineers unfolded the array’s five panels on rails simulating zero-gravity environments. The test verified that GOES-U’s solar array will properly deploy once the satellite reaches geostationary orbit, NASA said. The […]
