The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center has awarded power management company Eaton a grant to investigate 3D printing use cases. Under the terms of the deal, Eaton will work with the University of Toledo in exploring how additive manufacturing and advanced materials can replace damaged components in support of the U.S. Army Corps […]
The Missile Defense Agency has selected Raytheon Missiles & Defense as one of the companies to develop and test the first interceptor specifically designed to defeat hypersonic threats. The envisioned weapon, called Glide Phase Interceptor, will be produced to defeat a new generation of hypersonic missiles, weapons that travel more than five times the speed […]
The U.S. Air Force will conduct an exercise in December to see if cargo planes can be converted into makeshift bombers. The effort will be the last part of the service’s Rapid Dragon program, which aims to validate the concept of dropping pallets housing missiles. The exercise will test the Air Force’s palletized munitions concept. […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency is looking to implement cybersecurity upgrades on the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System as part of an extensive modernization initiative. JWICS is a government network that stores top-secret and sensitive compartmented information for the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. It is described by officials as a top-secret super information […]
Booz Allen Hamilton announced that it will commercialize services on the Air Force’s enterprise software development ecosystem. The Air Force’s Platform One is a collaborative hub designed to accelerate the delivery of software updates for warfighters. In collaboration with Rancher Government Solutions, Booz Allen will distribute Platform One’s services to users in the Department of […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Northrop Grumman an expanded scope of work contract to develop a satellite communications-enabled, open architecture-based Freedom Radio. Northrop Grumman will demonstrate a satcom-enabled version of the Freedom Radio to see if it can provide secure and resilient data management and delivery in near real-time. A satellite-based Freedom […]
San Diego-based Cubic Corporation announced that its Mission and Performance Solutions business division was awarded a follow-on research and development contract to continue developing technology that will enable an Aerial Layer Mesh Network with HALO. The project seeks to refine the technology that could, in turn, be used to advance the U.S. Air Force’s High-Capacity […]
The Department of Defense has awarded GreyNoise Intelligence a potential five-year, $30 million contract to help the agency learn more about internet-wide scan and attack activities. The award follows GreyNoise’s initial prototype activity with the Defense Innovation Unit. The contract will allow the company to sell its platform and guide system and organization control teams […]
Planet Federal has received another extension to its existing commercial satellite imagery contract with the National Reconnaissance Office. The company has been providing daily 3 to 5 meter resolution images to the NRO since 2019 under the terms of a multi-year subscription service contract. The latest extension would allow NRO to use Planet Federal’s imagery […]
The National Guard has named Martin Akerman, a long-time information technology professional, as its first chief data officer. Akerman now holds the formal title of IT specialist (policy and planning/data management) and reports to the National Guard Bureau’s J6 Chief Information Office, FedScoop reported. Prior to joining the National Guard Bureau in September, Akerman served […]
