Accenture Federal Services will compete for task orders designed to help improve the USAF Base Defense System’s response to adversary threats such as drones and hypersonic missiles after securing prime position on a 10-year, $900 million U.S. Air Force digital engineering contract. The task orders under the contract will focus on research and development and […]
The Department of the Navy has awarded Reston, Virginia-based national security and technology company Peraton the 10-year, $4 billion Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services Full Deployment Production Units contract. Peraton will produce units, kits, modules, components, software, spare parts and development items for shore, surface and submarine platforms. The contract was awarded by the […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Intelligent Waves a $99.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity follow-on contract to continue providing hardware and software integration services in support of the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron’s Crowd Source Flight Data program. Under the contract, Intelligent Waves will download, process and offload significant data from Quick Reaction Instrumentation Package-equipped aircraft. Work […]
The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation has awarded Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions a firm-fixed-price contract to modernize a combat training center owned by a foreign military sales customer. The deal extends Cubic’s 25-year history of providing live training system capabilities to the FMS customer. Specific tasks include life cycle […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Simple Blockchain Applications Chain a $30 million strategic funding increase to augment supply chain management. The military services, the Defense Logistics Agency and the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering are expected to utilize blockchain programs developed and implemented by the company. Stacy Betlej-Amodeo, vice […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected three companies to work on quantum computing projects. Under the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program, Atom Computing, Microsoft and PsiQuantum will determine whether an underexplored approach can perform much faster than conventional computational methods and can exceed operational costs. During the initial phase, the three […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has activated a two-star command tasked with data operations synchronization. The Marine Corps Information Command was established after Marine Corps Commandant David Berger called for its creation in his May 2022 update to Force Design 2030. According to Berger, the command would focus on information modernization, which would include cyber operations, […]
The U.S. Army has awarded four defense companies other transaction agreements with a combined value of $24.25 million to procure prototypes of Common Tactical Truck variants and to determine whether commercial products can meet military requirements. The OTA awardees are Mack Defense, Navistar Defense, Oshkosh Defense and a team composed of American Rheinmetall Vehicles and […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX directorate has awarded a strategic funding increase with an $85 million ceiling to Electra .aero for the rapid development, testing and evaluation of a full-scale prototype electric short takeoff and landing aircraft to support certain missions of interest. Electra originally created the eSTOL plane to serve as a cost-efficient […]
President Joe Biden has nominated U.S. Navy Rear Adm. George Wikoff as the next commander of the service’s 5th Fleet. Wikoff is currently the vice director of the Department of Defense Joint Staff. He also commanded other entities, such as the U.S. Naval Forces, the U.S. Central Command and the Combined Maritime Forces in Manama, […]
