The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications-Tactical unit is planning to publish toward year-end a request for proposals on low-cost and user-friendly single-channel radios. The planned radio communications kit purchase is in line with the service’s shift to division-centric fighting from a brigade-centric one and its related communication network revamp. According to […]
Cyber intelligence solutions provider Sentar announced that it has won a potential four-year, $6.7 million contract to support the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity test and evaluation, training and certification missions. Under the National Cyber Range Complex Event Planning, Operations and Support IT Service Management Support contract, Sentar will directly work with the Pentagon on configuration […]
Curtiss-Wright has announced that it will deliver airborne data recorder solutions to the Naval Surface Warfare Center under a five-year, $34 million sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. U.S. and Australian crewed and uncrewed maritime aircraft will carry the technology, Curtiss-Wright said Thursday. The company is expected to produce and maintain its Keyed Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Airborne […]
Information technology modernization provider Sev1Tech has announced that it will deliver logistics IT integration and support to the U.S. Navy under a five-year, $45 million contract. Capabilities such as maintenance, repair and overhaul; supply chain management; and product lifecycle management will be merged into a system of systems using Agile and DevSecOps approaches, Sev1Tech said. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon, an RTX business, a contract for the Gambit engine development program. Under the contract, Raytheon will use performance models and real-world data from previous tests to design an air-breathing propulsion system that uses a rotating detonation engine. In theory, rotating detonation engines can produce more thrust […]
The U.S. Air Force’s Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded Agile-Bot II a potential five-year, $162 million contract to support the migration and integration of the command and control systems of Air Mobility Command into a Department of Defense or commercial cloud environment. Agile-Bot II is Agile Defense’s joint venture with BuddoBot. Other […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Comtech a $48.6 million contract to provide Enterprise Digital Intermediate Frequency Multi-Carrier modems. Comtech will design, develop, test and deliver the units and provide ancillary hardware, software and sustainment services that support EDIM performance enhancements. The modems are designed to support multiple satellite providers, allow the Department of Defense to […]
Rigetti Computing announced that it has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to pursue an ongoing quantum algorithm project. as part of the Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow program. Rigetti is currently developing an encoding solution for optimizing problems onto qubits through its “Scheduling Problems with Efficient Encoding of […]
The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems a $218 million task order to expand the production of 155-millimeter M1128 projectiles. Awarded under a $974 million contract, the task order provides funds for a Load, Assemble and Pack facility in Camden, Arkansas, GD said Monday. The installation is expected to utilize air-cooling […]
Five small businesses have received contract offers from the U.S. Army for the development of artificial intelligence-powered language translator software. Under the contracts, the Army’s subject matter professionals will analyze the businesses’ software solutions to check their capability to translate and summarize complex information from multilingual communications. The selected companies are Anonymous A.I., Barron Associates, […]
