The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed a solution for performing wide-area surveillance of small drones in dense urban environments. With its Aerial Dragnet capability, DARPA aims to utilize sensors mounted on drones to detect, classify and track other drones. The goal is for Aerial Dragnet to transmit its tracking data from optical sensors, […]
The Department of Defense has awarded Perspecta Labs a prime spot on a contract to develop countermeasures against communications jamming and interference. The contract, which has a potential value of $18.5 million over 45 months, will support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Resilient Networked Distributed Mosaic Communications program, Perspecta said. DARPA’s RN DMC is […]
CACI International has received a five-year contract with a ceiling value of $376 million from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to support the conduct of critical geospatial intelligence missions. CACI will provide mission technology to the NGA under the indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract, which will run through the course of five years if all options are […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division a $107 million contract modification to continue providing support services to the LHA 9 type of amphibious assault ships. The award, which marks HII’s fourth modification for the contract, calls for long-lead-time material and advanced procurement activities for LHA 9. With the modification, the […]
The U.S. Army has exercised an option in a contract with AeroVironment to order additional Switchblade 300 tactical missile systems. Switchblade 300 is a back-packable and rapidly deployable loitering missile designed for precision strikes. The system can be remotely piloted or flown autonomously, AeroVironment said Tuesday. The system includes a multipack launcher designed to provide […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a draft manual meant to direct the service’s new operations strategy. The Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations manual suggests moving small formations of Marines from sea to strategic pieces of land to perform surveillance missions, launch anti-ship missiles and set up a rugged forward refueling and rearming base, among other […]
The U.S. Air Force announced that the HH-60W Jolly Green II, a new combat rescue helicopter, has passed the final test in its developmental phase. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin aviation company, helped conduct the final test at Eglin Air Force Base to demonstrate the performance of the aircraft’s weapons systems and optimize their configurations, the […]
Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a five-year task order to provide prototyping and experimentation services to the Department of Defense. The $39 million task order was awarded under the DOD Information Analysis Center’s multiple-award contract vehicle, which was created to enhance the Defense Technical Information Center repository, Alion said. Established in the 1940s, […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Everbridge a new three-year contract to provide software solutions that will power the Joint Analytic Real-Time Virtual Information Sharing System, the enterprise system used by the Department of Defense for threat visibility. The new contract extends the Army’s comprehensive antiterrorism and force protection program, which is aimed at ensuring the […]
The U.S. Navy seeks to demonstrate a mix of electronic warfare and cyber capabilities through its aerial electronic attack platform dubbed the Next Generation Jammer. The NGJ, which is split into three pods covering the mid, low and high portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, will be mounted on the EA-18G Growler aircraft and serve as […]
