Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, a Leidos-led consortium of technology companies, has implemented the MHS Genesis electronic health record system in Department of Defense military treatment facilities in Europe and outside the contiguous United States for the first time. The EHR system was rolled out in 10 military treatment facilities in Europe and additional sites […]
Aerospace company Stratolaunch announced that it has received an Air Force Research Laboratory contract to support the Talon-A 3 reusable hypersonic test vehicle‘s first flight demonstration. Talon-A vehicles serve as autonomous testbeds capable of various flight profiles while carrying customized payloads, Stratolaunch said Thursday. The company said in a press release that Talon-A’s reusability enables […]
The U.S. Army has ordered over 100 AeroVironment Switchblade 600 loitering munitions that will be part of the service’s Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance program, increment one. Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said the service signed a deal with AeroVironment after Congress […]
Draper will manufacture, deliver and sustain guidance systems for the Trident II D5 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile under a potential $329.98 million contract from the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs. Work, which includes performing design analysis and testing of the guidance system, called Mark 6 Mod 1, supports the Navy’s Sea-Based Strategic Deterrent modernization effort, Draper […]
The Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory will provide lunar science and technology expertise to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project designed to identify and propose lunar critical infrastructure standards. JHU-APL will manage and deliver expert insights for the Lunar Operating Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium, an initiative designed to accelerate the development of interoperability standards […]
Defense and aerospace company Northrop Grumman has received an Air Force Research Laboratory contract to integrate commercial space internet connectivity on airborne platforms. Through the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program, the Department of Defense aims to procure systems that can connect with low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit and geostationary orbit networks, Northrop […]
Outerlink Global Solutions will outfit the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress long-range, heavy bomber with the Iris communications equipment powered by Iridium satellites. Work will be performed under a four-year, $26 million Strategic Funding Increase contract award. Iris offers the Iridium Short Burst Data service, two-way messaging and asset tracking and monitoring, even in remote […]
Defense and aerospace company L3Harris Technologies has announced that it will work with MAG Aerospace and Leidos to develop the U.S. Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System. HADES is a Bombardier Global 6500 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program of record to support U.S. combatant commands and advance the Army’s long-range precision fires modernization efforts, […]
The U.S. Army has selected Comtech to provide satellite communications and professional engineering services under a potential $544 million task order. Comtech will supply satellite and terrestrial networking communications technologies in support of the Global Field Service Representative program, which provides communications and IT infrastructure services to the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and […]
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Parsons a potential five-year, $53 million task order to support the organization’s counter-weapons of mass destruction proliferation efforts. Parsons will provide solutions that would help DTRA improve its anti-WMD proliferation capabilities. According to Parsons, its technologies can help customers detect, interdict and recover WMDs and related items at […]
