The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Inmarsat Government the U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker Network Services blanket purchase agreement, which has a maximum value of $410 million over a base period of one year. DISA aims to procure L-band satellite communications on the ELERA network between BFT transceivers and satellite earth stations, Inmarsat reported […]
Robotics and autonomous systems provider QinetiQ US has secured a potential three-year, $48 million task order to support the U.S. Army‘s C5ISR Center. Under the task order, QinetiQ will provide research, development and engineering support for image processing and advanced optics technologies. The contractor will also develop and sustain software algorithms, computer programming, hardware integration, […]
The U.S. Army has concluded a 10-month initial operational test and evaluation of the Northrop Grumman-built Integrated Battle Command System for air and missile defense. Completing the last major assessment procedure will allow the military branch to decide whether IBCS should move from low-rate initial production to full-rate production and be deployed for use by […]
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to sign more agreements with commercial satellite imaging operators for hyperspectral satellite data. Jeremy Banik, deputy director of the NRO Commercial Systems Program Office, said during the CyberSatGov conference on Nov. 3 that NRO is completing the request for proposals for hyperspectral remote sensing, which is expected to be released […]
The U.S. Army awarded Cybernet a contract in May to develop and install remote-control capabilities on assault breacher vehicles, which are systems meant to break through minefields and complex obstacles. The service plans to test the autonomous ABV prototypes over a period of up to two years. According to Brig. Gen. Luke Peterson, program executive […]
SouthWest Warehouse Solutions and V2X, formerly Vectrus, have installed four Modula Vertical Lift Modules at a 5G smart warehouse on Naval Air Station North Island. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center San Diego commissioned two of the VLMs on Oct. 28 as part of a project focused on employing 5G network capabilities to automate and […]
Empower AI, a public sector-serving artificial intelligence technology company, will provide IT services and support to the U.S. Army 7th Signal Command under a recompete contract it recently secured. The potential $11 million task order, which was awarded under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 3 Services contract, has a one-year base and two one-year […]
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured a subcontract under the Multiservice Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed program, for which Dynetics is the prime contractor. The Leidos subsidiary is leading a team tasked with developing a cost-effective trial platform to be used by the Department of Defense, its components and partners. The planned outcome is a […]
An innovation cell within the U.S. Army‘s Human Resources Command is streamlining data and applying artificial intelligence and predictive capabilities to advance the service’s workforce. Lt. Col. Kristin Saling, the director of the innovation cell, said during an AFCEA event that the Army is doing more to make sense of the data that it captures […]
The Joint Tactical Networking Center has updated its Software Communications Architecture version 2.2.2 conformance test suite as part of efforts to reduce software development cycles and costs for military communications products. SCA is an open architecture framework for instantiating, configuring and managing waveform applications running on a radio hardware platform. The upgraded version allows the […]
