GRSi has secured a three-year contract with the U.S. Navy to support P-913, the service’s largest C4I military construction project. The Maryland-based company will provide facility support services to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic, a unit of the Naval Information Forces dedicated to providing information superiority for global maritime and joint […]
The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command has launched a cloud-enabled DevSecOps pipeline designed to handle secret-level information and applications. Known as the Overmatch Software Armory, the pipeline serves as an Impact Level 6 digital environment that automatically integrates security in every stage of the software development process, the Navy said. “Previously, if we wanted to […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Anduril Industries a potential $99 million contract to provide counter-unmanned aircraft system solutions as a service to military customers. The five-year deal allows the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps to purchase Anduril’s suite of artificial intelligence-enabled C-UAS solutions, which are capable of autonomously detecting, classifying and tracking […]
Lawmakers want to require the military services to perform an audit of their legacy information technology systems, applications and software. The House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems said such a mandate will help in identifying redundant and misplaced investments, FCW reported Tuesday. A senior Department of Defense technology official […]
Accenture Federal Services announced that it has been awarded a $729 million contract to help the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command transform multiple enterprise resource planning systems into a single, consolidated model. The wholly-owned Accenture subsidiary said the unified model aims to improve efficiency, enhance readiness and reduce costs. Under the contract, AFS will be called […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched an unclassified innovation workspace at the T-REX entrepreneur center in the St. Louis Downtown Innovation District in Missouri. The Moonshot Labs are aimed at encouraging collaborative research in the government, industry and academic geospatial intelligence community in the region, NGA said. Navy Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, director at NGA, […]
The Air Force’s AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon is slated to be the U.S.’ first hypersonic missile to move from the drawing board into actual production and use, an official close to the matter revealed. Mike White, principal director for hypersonics in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, said a […]
The Senate has confirmed Gina Ortiz Jones as the next undersecretary of the Air Force, the second-highest-ranking civilian role within the service branch. Jones received her Senate confirmation on July 22, one month after the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced her nomination. The new undersecretary is a former intelligence officer in the Air Force, spending […]
The U.S. Navy is keen on field testing its latest high-tech weapons, including hypersonic missiles, using its newest and most modern warships, a flag officer close to the program said. Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, commander of Naval Surface Forces, revealed that the service is planning to test a Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic boost glide missile […]
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have approved a $740 billion spending plan for the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2022, up by $24 billion compared to President Joe Biden’s request. The SASC’s version of the FY2022 defense authorization bill includes $1.7 billion in funding to restore an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and $1.5 […]
