The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos a potential five-and-a-half year, $158 million contract for continuing work on the Command and Control Incident Management Emergency Response Application. Leidos will continue developing C2IMERA and expanding its availability to all Air Force installations, meeting the service’s C2 and emergency management requirements. C2IMERA is a Leidos-built, government-owned application […]
Lockheed Martin announced that it has secured a $219 million contract for the continued production of Precision Strike Missiles under the U.S. Army’s Early Operational Capability initiative. The contract award marks the company’s fourth production contract for the long-range surface-to-surface missile, enabling a substantial boost in production capacity to meet the escalating demand from the U.S. […]
EnCharge AI has announced a multiyear partnership with Princeton University to develop more efficient artificial intelligence model processors with $18.6 million in financial support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The funding is taken from DARPA’s $78 million Optimum Processing Technology Inside Memory Arrays, an initiative to develop fast, power-efficient and scalable compute-in-memory accelerators […]
Pacific Defense has announced that it secured a two-year, $17.4 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to demonstrate algorithms and software that can support sensor-to-edge-user capabilities. Pacific Defense will work with Carnegie Mellon University and Perceptronics Solutions to demonstrate how edge devices built from sensor open systems architecture can enable rapid and effective […]
Space-based intelligence company BlackSky Technology has announced a multimillion-dollar Department of Defense contract to collect and annotate multi-frame burst photos to improve moving target artificial intelligence models. Satellites passing over an area of interest can rapidly capture burst imagery to generate 3D volumetric products and movement-oriented detection analytics, BlackSky said Monday. According to BlackSky, it […]
The Department of Defense has awarded Kratos Defense and Security Solutions a $499 million multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to design, build, test and deliver anti-tamper solutions to be used in DOD programs. Kratos President Michael Johns said the company’s involvement in the program opens up new opportunities, including welcoming new contractual channels and new customers in […]
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that intelligence organizations such as the U.S. Cyber Command and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will need to work closely to deal with cyberthreats to the 2024 U.S. elections. Speaking at an Intelligence and National Security Alliance event, he warned of foreign cyber actors armed with generative artificial […]
Palantir USG has received a $9.8 million other transaction agreement/authority contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to work on an Electromagnetic Battle Management – Joint Decision Support prototype. Donny Williams, chief of spectrum information systems at the Program Executive Office for Spectrum, said the program provides joint force commanders with a planning tool capable […]
The U.S. Army Contracting Command has awarded Astrion a five-year, $910 million contract to continue providing mission support services to the military branch through a joint venture with AI Signal Research Inc. Under the Redstone Test and Engineering Services contract, the Joint Technical Solutions joint venture will continue supporting the Army’s missile, aviation and combat […]
The Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants has awarded Sigma Defense a five-year, $59 million Autonomy Baseline Manager contract to integrate autonomy software for unmanned vehicles under the office. Sigma will deliver tools and employ DevSecOps and Agile methodologies using the Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab process to enable autonomous capabilities in unmanned systems. […]
