The U.S. Air Force has awarded Dynepic a $51 million contract through AFWERX’s Strategic Funding Increase program to improve the company’s MOTAR extended reality-optimized learning content management system. MOTAR serves as a platform where airmen can access digital training content from various vendors. With the new funding, MOTAR will integrate containerized and Unity-based training applications, […]
The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet, has been chosen by President Joe Biden as his nominee for the position of deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, N2/N6, and director of naval intelligence. Thomas will succeed Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler upon confirmation […]
Wichita State University has secured a five-year, $100 million U.S. Army contract for ground transportation fleet modernization support. Under the Modernization of Integrated Technology for Ground Systems contract, WSU’s National Institute for Aviation Research will help the Army develop components and processes for advanced manufacturing and implement environments for developing and sustaining digital twins. Work […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a multi-year contract to Riverside Research for the Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines program, which is aimed at protecting integrated computing systems by building tools for disrupting attack patterns and preventing emergent execution engines from being used. Riverside will develop a method to automatically translate emergent […]
The U.S. Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman to participate in the first phase of the Common Tactical Edge Network Consortium. Northrop was chosen after demonstrating networking, communications and processing solutions to enable the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept. The company used an Open Mission Systems-compliant radio, Resilient Network Controller, machine […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has exercised options worth $256.8 million under a contract it awarded to BAE Systems to procure additional amphibious combat vehicles. BAE Systems will receive $145.3 million for the delivery of over 25 ACV personnel variant units and $111.5 million for more than 15 ACV command variant platforms. Both ACV-P and ACV-C […]
The Naval Air Systems Command Airborne Strategic Command, Control and Communications Program Office has partnered with Coras to use the company’s enterprise decision management software-as-a-service platform. The Coras solution, which has achieved high certification from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, delivers actionable information from all data sources to enable informed decision-making and support […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to develop a high-speed aircraft that does not need a runway to operate. DARPA is working with the U.S. Special Operations Command on the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies program. DARPA Director and two-time Wash100 winner Stefanie Tompkins said during the Global SOF Foundation Air Warfare Symposium that […]
The U.S. Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment has tested technologies included in Capability Set 23 in a capstone training event at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Germany. Capability Set 23 aims to increase bandwidth to support sensor data, graphics and video transmission and establish additional satellite-based communication routes to provide multiple transport paths and improve […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Persistent Systems a $75.5 million contract to deploy the company’s Infrastructure-based Regional Operation Network to three nuclear triad-related bases as part of the service’s Regional Operating Picture program to support the Air Force Global Strike Command. IRON, an antenna system that uses the company’s Wave Relay mobile ad hoc […]
