The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded six organizations research contracts to develop sensing platforms that can detect and identify aerosol-based chemical threats in complex environments. The contract awardees are Detect-Ion, Signature Science, Virginia Tech, the University of Colorado-Boulder, SRI International and Leidos. The multiyear research and development effort is part of the newly […]
The Defense Science Board recently met with Pentagon officials to discuss national security issues as part of the Winter Quarterly Session. The event, which ran from Feb. 6 to 8, marked the beginning of the 2024 Summer Study on Advanced Capabilities for Potential Future Conflict, the Pentagon said. During the first day of the Winter […]
Ensuring that Department of Defense business opportunities are more accessible to small businesses is one of the steps that the DOD is looking into toward implementing its National Defense Industrial Strategy launched in January, a Pentagon official said. Speaking at a Washington Technology event on Friday, Danielle Miller, the defense secretary’s acting deputy assistant for […]
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded General Dynamics Mission Systems a two-year, $22.2 million contract to support the Next Generation Survivor Radio program. GDMS will deliver 50 radio prototypes that the Air Force will subject to an 18-month test and certification period if the service selects the company’s solution through a […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s Science and Technology Directorate has awarded Leidos a task order to design and implement a Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination system for the agency’s Open Source Intelligence Integration Center. Under the DOMEX Technology Platform single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, work will be carried out in the National Capital Region with remote software […]
Veteran-owned information technology services company Data Computer Corp. of America has announced a potential five-year, $37 million task order to support the Defense Information Security Agency’s command and control portfolio capabilities. DISA aims to strengthen its C2 infrastructure through cybersecurity, software engineering and testing support, DCCA said Wednesday. David Bower, DCCA’s president and chief operating […]
Verizon has attended a groundbreaking ceremony at Fort Bliss in Texas, marking the start of a construction project delivering 5G connectivity to soldiers. Verizon will work with Boldyn Networks to set up the infrastructure needed to provide 5G connectivity at Fort Bliss, which will serve military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. Specifically, the two […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Veeam Software a contract to support the service’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program. The company will provide data backup and recovery software solutions to the Navy’s Program Manager Warfare 160, which oversees the CANES program, through the contract worth $5 million, with options that could take the total […]
Defense technology company Rebellion Defense has announced a subcontract agreement with prime holder Fuse to develop software for Project Overmatch, part of the U.S. Navy’s contribution to the Pentagon’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort. Former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday described Project Overmatch as foundational to “the joint tactical network of […]
BAE Systems is collaborating with the U.S. Air Force to upgrade its fleet of EA-37B aircraft. On Tuesday, the aerospace company announced that it will supply the service branch with next-generation Baseline 4 mission systems to be fitted on the EA-37Bs. The systems will enable the service to have long-range electromagnetic attack capabilities capable of […]
