The Department of Defense has awarded RTX a potential two-year, $6.6 million contract to develop multi-hop mobile ad-hoc networks that would provide 5G connectivity to forward-deployed warfighters. RTX’s Opportunistic eXtemporarY 5G Encrypted Network capability is designed to connect at least 20 pieces of equipment using 5G sidelink technology. OXYGEN will include additional security layers and […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded five organizations prime research contracts to participate in Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems, a program to develop active smart textiles that can record audio, video and geolocation data. Arete, Leidos, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nautilus Defense and SRI International received awards under a broad […]
Leidos has selected CAE Defense & Security as a subcontractor to support U.S. Army aviator training on the Bombardier Global 6000 and 6500 business jets under a potential five-year, $1.5 billion Sentinel task order awarded to Leidos by the Department of Defense. The Bombardier Global 6000 and 6500 were selected as new manned aerial intelligence, […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded CACI International its five-year, $125 million Crisis Response and Interoperable C5 Electronic Systems contract. CACI will continue providing full C5ISR life cycle support to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. Services to be delivered include engineering and design, rapid prototyping, fabrication and solutions integration. Work under the contract will […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Telos a five-year contract to employ the Telos Automated Message Handling System. DISA will use the organizational messaging solution to support the distribution and processing of various reports and other critical information, Telos said. AMHS automatically sends messages to the right desktop and keeps a record of all […]
The team of MAG Aerospace and L3Harris Technologies has won a U.S. Army contract to deliver two intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft under the Army Theater-Level, High-Altitude Expeditionary Next-Airborne ISR-Radar program. Under the Army’s Sensor Technology Operations and Readiness contract, MAG Aerospace will serve as the prime contractor while L3Harris will support ISR delivery missions. […]
Airbus U.S. Space and Defense has received a $27.8 million contract to upgrade the mission equipment package of the UH-72A Lakota helicopters used by the U.S. Army’s National Guard Security & Support Battalion. The system improvements under the contract, which include enhanced digital interfaces, an advanced moving map and new monitors, will expand the aircraft’s […]
The concepts and technologies on the U.S. Army tactical data infrastructure enabling synchronized connections among corps formations are sound, according to Col. Matthew Paul, project manager for mission command at Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical. Reviewing the service’s participation in the recent Talisman Sabre exercise in Australia, Paul told DefenseScoop that the Army still […]
The U.S. Army has selected three contractors to support the integration of five business systems into a single platform called the Enterprise Business Systems-Convergence. Under other transaction authority agreements awarded by the Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and Army Contracting Command-Rock Island, the vendors will each develop an EBS-C prototype in support of […]
Gen. James Rainey, the head of the U.S. Army Futures Command, is warning against fully replacing soldiers and conventional weapons with machines. Speaking to TechNet Augusta conference attendees, he recommended that the Army build formations balancing human personnel and artificial intelligence to ensure that commanders do not fully rely on the technology to make decisions. […]
