U.S. Army 1st Lt. Mahdi Al-Husseini, a helicopter pilot with the XVIII Airborne Corps, has developed an artificial intelligence-based solution that could change the way pilots across the military and civil aviation advance their flying skills, and could help commanders better select pilots for specific missions. Al-Husseini’s innovation involves installing a camera and pointing it […]
The Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $62 million contract to proceed with the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Precision Strike Missile program. Work under the EMS phase covers system qualification, manufacturing readiness actions and initial operational testing and evaluations, according to Darrell Ames, a spokesperson for the Program Executive Office for Missiles […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced that it has awarded five vendors spots on a new flexible contract amounting to $29 million, designed to enable best of class analytic solutions for economic-related GEOINT challenges. The awardees of the five-year operational contract are BAE Systems, Ball Aerospace, BlackSky, Continental Mapping Consultants and Royce Geospatial Consultants. The companies were […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Battelle a five-year, $89.6 million task order for human performance research and engineering in support of the 711th Human Performance Wing. The Columbus, Ohio-based company will administer a live-virtual-constructive testbed to support research and training activities for both conventional and special operations forces. The activity will also […]
Leidos has secured a five-year, $19.3 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to equip military and health care personnel with protective technologies that can neutralize chemical and biological threats. Contract work falls under DARPA’s Personalized Protective Biosystem program. PPB technologies reduce reliance on burdensome protective equipment while increasing CB threat defense, Leidos […]
Peraton has been awarded a potential $109 million contract to provide cyberspace operations support services to the U.S. Cyber Command. Administered through an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle, the four-year deal is expected to improve the defense community’s cyber capabilities and improve USCYBERCOM’s relationships with partner nations, Peraton said Monday. Tom Afferton, Peraton’s president for the cyber […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $9.6 million other transaction authority agreement to work on the second phase of the service’s Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team solution. The TLS-BCT is the Army’s first integrated electronic warfare, signals intelligence and cyber platform that will be mounted on Stryker vehicles. Under the contract, the Bethesda, […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded Hawkeye 360 a five-year, $10 million radio frequency mapping contract. Work will support the NGA’s efforts to discover, characterize and map a broad range of RF activity across large geographic areas. Services provided under the contract will benefit combatant commands and the agency’s designated mission partners. More specifically, generated […]
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen Randy Kee has been appointed as the Department of Defense’s senior adviser for security in the Arctic. He will be responsible for establishing the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, an organization that will focus on operations in the Arctic region. The former Air Force officer is also the […]
The U.S. Army is currently piloting the Armored Brigade Combat Team On-The-Move network program in preparation for near-peer confrontations in contested environments. The program’s launch signifies a pivot to a more agile, mobile fighting force, which contrasts sharply from the stationary forward-operating base paradigm which was the standard during previous wars, Signal Magazine reported Friday. […]
