The U.S. Army has awarded Alion Science and Technology a contract to support the Program Executive Office Aviation’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office. Under the $72 million task order, Alion will support the Endurance Unmanned Aerial System, Tactical UAS, Soldier UAS and Command Control and Effects program. The task order has a 12-year period of […]
BAE Systems and Oshkosh Defense are competing to fulfill the Army’s requirement for a new cold weather, all-terrain vehicle to be used in the Arctic. According to budget documents, future Arctic vehicles must be capable of traversing a wide range of otherwise impassable terrain year-round and reconfigurable for different missions such as general troop transport, […]
Diversified electronics manufacturer Curtiss-Wright has announced a new version of its positioning, navigation and timing technology for ground vehicles. The new DBH-670A switchboard includes an atomic clock for places with restricted access to the Global Positioning System, National Defense reported Thursday. Jason DeChiaro, Curtiss-Wright’s product manager for assured PNT, said the DBH-670A was designed with […]
The Air Force is slated to contribute the bulk of new cyber personnel to be added to the U.S. Cyber Command as proposed by the Department of Defense in its budget request for fiscal year 2022. The DOD request calls for the gradual addition of 14 teams to the combatant command’s Cyber Mission Force between […]
The Navy has adopted artificial intelligence to reduce the burden of tasks like data analysis and classification, according to one technology officer. Brett Vaughan, the Navy’s chief AI officer, said the technology can be used to automate tasks and increase the speed and quality of decision-making, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. He explained that different […]
The Department of Defense is set to phase out the commercial virtual remote environment that its workforce has been relying on since the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. DOD hastily deployed the CVR cloud computing platform in March 2020 out of necessity, offering basic collaboration functions. The workforce will soon be transitioned to a […]
SOS International has been awarded a five-year task order to modernize the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s joint information-sharing capabilities. The $43 million task order was awarded under the Mission Partner Environment contract managed by the Secretary of the Air Force Administrative Assistant Mission Partner Capabilities Office, SOSi said. “The scope of the MPE program is rapidly […]
Maj. Gen. Matthew Glavy is the Biden administration’s pick for deputy commandant for information of the Marine Corps. If confirmed, Glavy will replace Lt. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, who has held the role since July 2018. The deputy commandant post, first introduced in 2017, encompasses responsibilities similar to that of chief information officers in other military […]
President Joe Biden has chosen Carlos Del Toro to be the next secretary of the U.S. Navy. Del Toro is a retired Navy commander who serves as president and chief executive officer of SBG Technology Solutions. He is the founder of SBG, which provides shipbuilding services and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and space systems in support […]
Digital engineering techniques can bolster the Air Force community’s manufacturing capabilities during times of war, according to a top materiel official. Gen. Arnold Bunch, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, said digital engineering would allow the Air Force’s industrial base to update components and weapons systems at the speed of relevance, Nextgov reported Wednesday. […]
