The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential five-year, $137 million contract for C5ISR lifecycle management and sustainment. Lisa Hand, vice president and general manager of BAE Systems Integrated Defense Solutions, said the company has the expertise, personnel and resources to allow it to secure the contract. According to Hand, BAE’s knowledge in C5ISR […]
BAE Systems announced that it has received a $1.9 million contract from the Navy for the maintenance and modernization of USS Mitscher, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. Under the docking selected restricted availability contract, the warship will be drydocked and underwater hull preservation work will be performed, BAE Systems said Thursday. Additionally, the company will […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is set to roll out in 2022 a new common operating environment providing a service-centric platform for GEOINT access. The NGA’s chief information officer said that this will be among this year’s “big events” as the agency takes several technology shifts in cloud, cybersecurity and machine learning, Federal News Network said […]
The U.S. Navy’s new unmanned minesweeper has completed an underwater explosion shock testing, bringing it one step closer to fielding. The Unmanned Influence Sweep System is a semi-autonomous mine detonation detection solution that uses both acoustic and magnetic sensors. It comes with an obstacle avoidance sensor package and a command, control, communications and computers suite. […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential five-year, $154 million contract to continue supporting the Naval Air Warfare Center Webster Outlying Field. The contract is indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity in nature and will require BAE to support rapid command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance integration and sustainment at the Special Communications Mission Systems […]
The Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, the service’s primary research and development organization, has named Charneta Samms as its first permanent chief technology officer. DEVCOM is a major component of the Army Futures Command, the organization in charge of assessing the service’s future technology needs and driving the development of modernization solutions. Samms will take […]
The Missile Defense Agency has received the go signal from Congress to develop laser technologies that will be used in ballistic and hypersonic missiles. The congressional authority is part of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by Congress. According to the 2022 NDAA, the secretary of the Department of Defense will task […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is collaborating with the Semiconductor Research Corporation and a consortium of defense and semiconductor companies for the second iteration of its Joint University Microelectronics Program. JUMP 2.0 was launched to address new and emerging advancement challenges for microelectronics and other information and communications technologies, Homeland Preparedness News reported. Focus […]
The Air University‘s Air Force Culture and Language Center has launched two new online courses designed to teach airmen and guardians about the culture of the United States’ strategic competitors. AFCLC is now offering the Introduction to China and Introduction to Russia culture courses on its Culture Guide mobile app. Students who complete a course […]
The U.S. Air Force‘s 391st Fighter Squadron became the first operational unit to drop a Raytheon Technologies-built GBU-53/B StormBreaker smart bomb. In a test held on Nov. 2 at the Utah Test and Training Range, four F-15E Strike Eagle jets targeted and hit four moving vehicles on the ground. Alison Howlett, director for the StormBreaker […]
