The Senate Armed Services Committee has added a proposal to the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act requiring the Department of Defense’s National Academy of Public Administration to study the viability of a uniformed cyber force. The amendment includes a clause banning Pentagon personnel from interfering and influencing the Academy’s study. According to the […]
The Broadleaf Division of ASRC Federal will provide analytical support to the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command as part of a $56.6 million contract from the General Services Administration. The deal was made under the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle. From July 1, the company is expected to handle budgeting for existing […]
Dynetics, a Leidos subsidiary, is developing advanced sensors that would help the U.S. Marine Corps detect airborne threats without emitting electromagnetic signals. The solution, dubbed the Marine Expeditionary Long-range Persistent Surveillance system, is a 360-degree field-of-view sensor comprising digitized antennas and receivers that give operators a clear image of the airspace. The solution, based on […]
Northrop Grumman announced that it has completed the production of first-stage A1000 and second-stage B1000 motors for the U.S. Navy’s Trident II D5 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile system, bringing the number of solid rocket motors the company manufactured for the program to 2,000. The Trident II D5 SLBM, a three-stage, solid-propellant, inertial-guided missile system with […]
Silvus Technologies will supply StreamCaster Prism antenna radio systems to the U.S. Army under a $5.5 million contract for the Sustainment Transport System Line-of-Sight Program. The company will deliver products integrated with Silvus’ Mobile Networked MIMO waveform technology, which is designed to provide reliable, high-bandwidth, meshed video and data communications. With multiple-input, multiple-output antenna technology, […]
Signal officers belonging to the 1st Theater Sustainment Command Operational Command Post have almost completed establishing a communication system throughout the 1st TSC Alternate Command Post. Located within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, the alternate command post is an air base that functions as a secondary location from which the 1st TSC OCP […]
The U.S. Army has awarded network operations software developer CodeMettle a contract to provide software licenses for the Integrated NetOps Battalion and Below program. The software will be used to field and manage disparate and interconnected radio networks. CodeMettle demonstrated its products during the Army Capability Set Operations Demonstration and Adversary Assessment. The radio network […]
Leidos subsidiary Dynetics has concluded the first launch test for the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program. MACH-TB is designed to increase the speed at which commercially available hypersonic systems are tested. The program also calls on Dynetics to create an experimental glide body for data gathering and performance validation for hypersonic glide body […]
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania-based Arconic Corp. has secured a $45.5 million agreement with the Department of Defense’s Office for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy to boost high-purity aluminum production. The DOD will use Defense Production Act Title III authorities and funding to enhance HPA production infrastructure at Arconic’s Iowa facility. The funding would […]
AFWERX has awarded CesiumAstro a $3.6 million contract to equip a General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft with a satellite communications terminal and demonstrate the equipment’s capability to enable high-throughput connectivity for defense applications. The award was secured after introducing a new multibeam active electronically steered array antenna that can link with satellites in […]
