The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Textron Systems a potential five-year, $22 million contract for unmanned aerial systems operational support to the USS Miguel Keith expeditionary sea base. Textron Systems will deploy its Aerosonde UAS to provide extended-range ISR services onboard ESB-5. Textron Systems will also send field service representatives who will work […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division has awarded a contract for the Multiservice Advanced Capability Hypersonics Testbed to Dynetics. The project is intended to demonstrate cost-effective methods for prototyping launch vehicles for hypersonic payloads, informing Department of Defense capability validation efforts, the Leidos subsidiary said. Peraton, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Oak Ridge National […]
U.S. Army battalions in Fort Gordon recently finished testing a cloud-based platform meant to support the service’s intelligence officers by aggregating data from various sources, processing that information and presenting it via dashboards and other tools. The Army Intelligence Data Platform is part of the service’s cloud-based command post computing environment and is meant to […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded PsiQuantum a $22.5 million contract to formalize their partnership focused on designing quantum photonic chips. Such products are used to control and process qubits based on single photons. PsiQuantum uses its deep silicon photonics expertise and experience in developing an error-corrected, utility-scale quantum computer to deliver advanced capabilities […]
BAE Systems has secured a five-year, $143 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division extending technical support services for the Surface Combat Systems Center located in Wallops, Virginia. The work involves the integration of mission equipment, combat systems and computer programs used across the U.S. Navy’s ship modernization initiatives, BAE said. Previously, […]
Airmen who have completed the U.S. Air Force’s Combat Dive Course are now authorized to use the new U.S. Air Force combat dive badges, which they can acquire from the Army and Air Force Exchange Service stores. USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr. recently approved the insignia to properly represent the capabilities of […]
L3Harris Technologies has selected Moog’s Space and Defense Group to provide aircraft weaponry components. The Moog group will provide its weapon Stores Management System to support L3Harris’ work on the U.S. Special Operations Command Armed Overwatch Program. Specifically, Moog will install the SMS on manned, fixed-wing aircraft that L3Harris will deliver under the program. USSOCOM […]
U.S. Army Sgt. Mickey Reeve has received the Distinguished Meritorious Service Medal from the U.S. Central Command in recognition of his victory in the inaugural Innovation Oasis competition, which was held on Friday. During the event, Reeve presented a training software called the Interim Platform Agnostic Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Trainer. IMPACT is designed to simulate […]
Detachment 1 of the 96th Cyberspace Test Group located at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts will host a semiannual workshop online on Oct. 20 centered around automated testing, developmental testing of software for DevSecOps and cybersecurity. Capt. Samuel Howard, a test engineer within 96 CTG Det 1, said the event is for acquisition personnel […]
The U.S. Army plans to create a new artificial intelligence and machine learning pipeline to support the service’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node. According to Mark Kitz, program executive officer for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors, the military branch will create a dedicated program focusing on sensor data and related software. He explained during the […]
