DARPA Taps Leidos to Develop Protective Equipment Against Chemical, Biological Threats

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 […]
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Peraton to Provide Cyberspace Operations Support to USCYBERCOM Under $109M Contract

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 […]
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Lockheed to Continue TLS-BCT Prototyping Activities Under US Army Contract

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, […]
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HawkEye 360 Receives RF Mapping Contract From NGA

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 […]
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US Army Pilots Communications Program for Highly-Mobile Armored Brigades

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. […]
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Octo Receives Five-Year Contract to Support Navy SeaPort-NxG Program

The U.S. Navy has awarded Octo Consulting a five-year multiple-award contract to support its SeaPort Next Generation program. Under the deal, Octo will provide engineering, technical and programmatic support services for the SeaPort-NxG program. The contract will include emerging technologies and cybersecurity solutions designed to implement industry best practices, innovative digital technologies and data analytics […]
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