Leidos has awarded Rocket Lab USA a contract to launch four Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron missions in 2024 and 2025. Leidos announced that it is leading the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed, a Department of Defense program aimed at speeding up hypersonic testing. It secured the MACH-TB contract through an other transaction authority […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Pacific Defense Strategies a spot on a potential $900 million contract to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate. Under the multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Pacific Defense will compete for task orders that will help AFLCMC/XA secure multi-domain systems and new technologies. The IDIQ has […]
Vetegrity has received a potential 20-year, multimillion-dollar contract extending ongoing computer-aided drafting, engineering and architectural services for the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Hosting and Compute Center. Vetegrity, based in Maryland, is expected to support efforts by DISA facility engineers to build infrastructure for agency and customer data processing requirements. The award resulted from a competitive […]
Gen. Eric Smith, the U.S. Marine Corps acting commandant, said a flat or smaller fiscal year 2025 budget could impact his plan to speed up ongoing modernization efforts. Smith explained during a recent Defense News conference that he aims to put weapons programs such as the Navy/Marine Corps Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System and the Ground/Air […]
The Special Competitive Studies Project is calling for the creation of a Defense Experimentation Unit to accelerate the adoption of generative artificial intelligence capabilities for defense applications. The proposal is one of the SCSP’s recommendations in a white paper titled “Memo to the President and Congress on the Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Military […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has selected Metrea Simulations as the software provider for the Virtual Training for Air Dominance program. MSIM will use its NOR simulation platform to deliver scalable training for the 19th Air Force and the U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command. NOR uses the Unreal Engine 5 3D creation tool […]
The U.S. Army has awarded DCS Corp. a five-year, $2.09 billion contract to continue providing technical and engineering support to the Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicles Systems Center. Under the CCDC GVSC Technical and Engineering Services contract, DCS will continue providing technical and engineering services to program and project managers within Program Executive Office […]
Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. has awarded ATI a contract to build an additive manufacturing facility supporting the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. The plant will be built in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is scheduled to be operational by mid-2024. It will be used to conduct large-format metal additive manufacturing, heat treating and machining, ATI said. […]
Communication systems provider Genasys announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Defense has placed new orders for its two long-range acoustic device models worth $1.6 million. The orders include LRAD-1950XLs for the U.S. Special Operations Command in Europe, LRAD 360-XT mobile communications trailers for the African units of the U.S. Navy and spares for […]
The U.S. Air Force said the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit joint integrated electronic health record has seen a rise in demands for demonstrations after it was chosen as the software for point-of-injury and en-route care in July 2022. According to Gregory Burnett, lead engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance […]
