Pittsburgh-based engineering simulation company Ansys is now a member of BAE Systems’ Mission Advantage technology partnership program, under which it will help BAE’s Department of Defense customers advance their adoption of digital and model-based systems engineering. Ansys’ entry into the program aligns with a DOD directive issued in December addressing digital engineering methodologies, technologies and […]
The U.S. Air Force’s Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Special Operations Forces Directorate is adopting a novel approach for providing light reconnaissance aircraft to foreign military partners with the establishment of a dedicated digital acquisition team. Comprising young Air Force personnel, the Digital PAQuisitions team aims to create a digital twin of a light reconnaissance aircraft […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division announced that the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office has selected the five winners of its Hyper-AMPD! prize challenge Phase I seeking new concepts for the speedy development and flight testing of hypersonic models for rapid integration into existing Department of Defense platforms. The winners, invited to advance to the […]
The Defense Health Agency has awarded ASRC Federal two contracts totaling $103 million to provide critical health care policy and information technology infrastructure support, ASRC Federal said. Agile Decision Sciences, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, secured a $73 million contract to provide health readiness, policy and oversight services. The five-year contract will see ASRC Federal […]
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Chandra Donelson as its acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer, concurrent with her position as Space Force space data and AI officer, the DAF’s chief information officer announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. Eileen Vidrine, who retired in March, previously held the Air Force CDAO […]
Lockheed Martin will support the Missile Defense Agency in developing the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system. On Thursday, the MDA announced that it had awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ceiling amount of $4.1 billion and an ordering period from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2029. The C2BMC-Next initiative involves […]
Lockheed Martin will develop an airborne electronic defense system based on Sensor Open Systems Architecture with low size, weight and power requirements for the U.S. Navy’s MH-60R multimission helicopter. The SOSA technology will use Altera’s Multi-Chip Package based on the company’s Agilex 9 SoC FPGA Direct RF-Series and will be built, tested and produced through […]
HII’s Mission Technologies division has secured a $74 million contract to enhance the capabilities of the Mk 41 and Mk 57 vertical launching systems of U.S. Navy surface vessels. The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme Division administers the task order, which also covers Navy weapon and combat systems, as well as sensors. The tasks […]
The U.S. Army has awarded BlueHalo a four-year logistics support contract to provide preventative and corrective maintenance for the Palletized High Energy Laser system. P-HEL, developed by BlueHalo for the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, is designed to defeat small unmanned aerial system threats. The counter-UAS system is integrated with the Locust Laser […]
The U.S. Southern Command, the European Command and the Africa Command are reportedly interested in replacing their legacy Joint Regional Security Stacks with the zero trust security and network architecture that Booz Allen Hamilton provided to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Thunderdome program. According to Federal News Network, Thunderdome will help the commands replace their […]
