Berry Aviation has secured a contract to provide airborne ISR capabilities in support of Marine Forces Special Operations Command’s air-to-ground integration training. Berry Aviation’s ISR division will provide a modified Cessna 206 that will deliver turnkey services, including aircrew, the ISR platform and a remote-portable ground control station. The aircraft and ancillary support will enable […]
BAE Systems has secured a phase 2 contract valued at $12 million from the Air Force Research Laboratory to continue the development of a prototype multimode, open architecture seeker that will provide semi-autonomous precision targeting capability to destroy maritime threats such as air-launched maritime surface vessels. BAE Systems FAST Labs research and development group developed […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a five-year, $349 million contract to extend support for afloat and ashore tactical networks’ in-service engineering agent functions. Services to be provided include management, engineering, technical, integrated logistics and life cycle support. SAIC maintains a TACNET ISEA team of project managers, engineers and various personnel to […]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada have agreed to collaborate on developing high-power microwaves, autonomous systems and counter-hypersonics, among other emerging technologies, to boost the defense capabilities of both countries. The officials signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding focused on technology research, development, test and evaluation during a meeting […]
The U.S. Air Force has selected Iron Bow Technologies as the prime contractor for the Theater Deployable Communications program, which provides enterprise technology capabilities to warfighters for facilitating expeditionary communications at the tactical edge. Under a potential four-year, $144 million contract, the company will deliver TDC Agile Communications Packages consisting of voice and data networking […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane has awarded ManTech International a five-year, $57 million task order to support U.S. Special Operations Command with expeditionary weapon capabilities. ManTech won the task order under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center’s multiple-award contract vehicle. SOCOM will receive advanced integrated weapon systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Duality Technologies a multimillion-dollar, phase II Data Protection in Virtual Environments program contract. Duality will integrate new capabilities for privacy-protected machine learning developments under the DPRIVE program into its secure data collaboration platform. The capabilities are expected to allow customers to apply data science and machine learning […]
L3Harris Technologies will deliver 14 Vehicle Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment weapon systems to the Department of Defense under a $40 million contract. The VAMPIRE systems will be installed on the vehicles the U.S. is providing to Ukrainian military forces to help counter ground threats and unmanned aircraft systems. Four of the VAMPIRE portable […]
Leonardo DRS has secured a task order under a $40 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide the U.S. Army with additional vehicles carrying counter-unmanned aircraft systems for the Integrated Fires/Rapid Capabilities Office’s Mobile-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System program. M-LIDS is a capability intended to assist soldiers with detecting, jamming and striking down […]
The U.S. Army‘s chief information officer has announced that he will step down from his position but has not given an exact date for his departure. Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 winner, announced his departure through a LinkedIn post on Jan. 4, saying he has completed his tasks as Army CIO. In the LinkedIn post, […]
