Inca Digital Federal has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to aid the government in understanding and visualizing how digital assets can affect national security. Under the Mapping the Impact of Digital Financial Assets project, the company is tasked with creating a cryptocurrency ecosystem mapping tool […]
Valiant Integrated Services will continue providing the U.S. Marine Corps with advanced training and readiness services under a three-year, $49.9 million Trackless Mobile Infantry Targets task order awarded under the Marine Air-Ground Task Force training support services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. In collaboration with Marathon Targets, Valiant will enable semi-autonomous TMITs that can move around a training […]
The Department of Defense’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation has invested nearly $30 million from the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program into six consortia focused on manufacturing technologies, research and development, workforce training and cyber resiliency. The program supports initiatives that aim to strengthen the national security innovation base. OLDCC made the investments after […]
BAE Systems FAST Labs has won a $6.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop filter technology for the Compact Frontend Filters at the Element-level program, specifically to strengthen the performance of Department of Defense radio frequency and microwave systems such as digital active electronically scanned arrays. According to Chris Rappa, FAST Labs’ […]
Raytheon Missiles and Defense has secured a $985.35 million contract from the Department of the Air Force to develop and demonstrate Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile prototypes. Raytheon will operationalize its Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment prototype design for fighter aircraft integration. The company will also provide two leave-behind assets with operational utility. The award […]
Robotic systems provider AeroVironment secured a $20.6 million contract from the U.S. Army in mid-August for its Switchblade 300 tactical missile systems. The Switchblade 300 is a man-portable and rapidly deployable missile system that can be used from any ground-based platform. It includes a multi-pack launcher that can provide warfighters with rapid response force protection […]
Aerospace company Boeing has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $91.5 million contract to provide trainer jet components. Under the contract, L3Harris will supply mission-management processors for the U.S. Air Force’s T-7A Red Hawk. The processors can collate multiple data streams, making information gathered in-flight easier to decipher. The processors can connect internal and external networks and […]
CACI International has won a $54.6 million contract to support the Assured Positioning, Navigation, Timing and Space Cross Functional Team for the U.S. Army Futures Command, headquartered at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The APNT/Space CFT aims to advance Army modernization goals and national security requirements by conducting research and development, toward which CACI will assist […]
The first increment of the U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile is expected to be turned over to soldiers beginning in 2023. Hunter Blackwell, deputy capability area lead for fires at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Aviation and Missile Center, said the PrSM Increment 1 was transitioned into the acquisition community for fielding following […]
The Department of Defense is completing the transfer of 24 retired RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems as part of hypersonic weapons testing. The Global Hawk drones are part of the SkyRange program, where the Pentagon will use drones to test hypersonic platforms. The DOD believes that using drones can increase the frequency and flexibility […]
