The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential $95.2 million depot maintenance period availability contract to perform modernization work on the USS Mustin Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The base contract is worth $89.4 million. Under the contract, BAE’s San Diego Ship Repair will dry-dock the destroyer, perform underwater hull preservation work, recondition the engineering spaces, […]
Virginia-headquartered Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that its advanced unmanned underwater vehicle, REMUS 300, has been selected as the Navy’s next-generation small unmanned underwater vehicle program of record. The autonomous seacraft incorporates advanced modularity and open architecture into a compact, man-portable design, HII said Thursday. In a statement, the company said the initial phase of the […]
Army. Gen. Michael Kurilla has succeeded U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr. as head of the U.S. Central Command. USCENTCOM is the field combatant command assigned to Central Asia and other parts of the continent. The transfer of authority comes at a potentially critical point for the command as the Department of Defense emphasizes […]
L3Harris Technologies and Thales Defense and Security have been awarded spots on a potential 10-year, $6.1 billion U.S. Army contract to provide combat net radios. According to the Army’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, over 1,100 radios have been ordered from the two companies. The radios that will be delivered include those […]
Integrated Tactical Technologies announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense, through the Defense Innovation Unit, to develop a wearable two-way communication solution. The multi-phase contract is worth up to $19.4 million, iT2 said Wednesday. In a statement, iT2 said the deal calls for manufacturing “wireless soldier” solutions through its […]
Raytheon Missiles & Defense has secured a potential five-year, $3.15 billion contract for full-rate production of the AN/SPY-6(V) family of radars. The base award is a one-year contract worth $651 million, while the four one-year options are worth $2.5 billion in total. Raytheon will produce solid-state, fixed-face and rotating SPY-6 variants that will provide integrated […]
BAE Systems announced that it has been awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency a $5 million follow-on contract for phase 2 of the Technologies for Mixed-mode Ultra Scaled Integrated Circuits program. The latest deal follows the success of its delivery of phase 1 of the next-generation electronics program, BAE Systems said Wednesday. In […]
The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology its five-year, $171 million Biomedical Research Application Evaluation and Support contract to support the Army Medical Research and Development Command and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. Under the contract, GDIT will provide scientific, software development and program management services that will support biomedical research grant […]
California-based software company MarkLogic Corporation announced that it was awarded a spot on the $240 million Data Readiness AI Development contract for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. DRAID calls for supporting JAIC in accelerating the DOD’s artificial intelligence programs with the aim of transforming the use of AI throughout the defense establishment, […]
The Biden administration has requested $773 billion in fiscal year 2023 funding for the Department of Defense, including a $130.1 billion allocation for research, development, test and evaluation. The RDT&E budget represents a 9.5 percent increase over what was enacted for the current fiscal year. The money is expected to finance research in technologies like […]
