Virginia-headquartered Peraton announced that it has been selected to provide integrated, enterprise-wide management services to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence through the award of a $916 million task order with a seven-year performance period. The deal calls for helping the ODNI navigate “an incredibly complex and comprehensive” set of intelligence missions, Peraton […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded BlackSky Technologies a basic ordering agreement to create and optimize datasets for the Department of Defense’s AI models and applications. According to Patrick O’Neil, chief innovation officer at BlackSky, the company’s expertise in AI can enable a variety of capabilities, including low-latency geospatial imagery and automatic satellite tasking. […]
The U.S. Army XVIII Airborne Corps will partner with the Army Futures Command for the seventh Dragon’s Lair competition, which is slated for Aug. 16. Innovators across the Army and other Department of Defense military services are invited to showcase their ideas and concepts before civilian technical experts and senior military leaders. The technologies that […]
The Defense Health Agency has awarded Parsons a spot on a potential $10 billion multi-award contract for military medical research and development support. Called Omnibus IV, the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity deal has a five-year base period of performance and a five-year extension period, Parsons said. The company explained that the contract has four program areas under which […]
Washington-headquartered eMagin Corporation announced it has been awarded a $2.5 million contract by the Army to supply a high-brightness, full-color organic light-emitting diode microdisplay prototype, along with the techniques for manufacturing the technology. The service intends to use the prototype in augmented reality systems that provide both sensor and tactical data to soldiers, to enhance […]
The Government Accountability Office revealed that a recent audit has identified weaknesses in how the Missile Defense Agency is advancing a program to counter threats posed by adversaries’ hypersonic weapons. In the fiscal year 2021, the agency made some progress but continued to fall short of its goals for asset deliveries and testing, the GAO […]
Raytheon Intelligence & Space has secured a $46.2 million firm-fixed-price contract to modernize the U.S. Air Force’s A-10C Thunderbolt II. Under the contract, RI&S will install its Common Open Source Mission Computer on the A-10C. COSMC is a solution that will improve processing for combat systems control, which could ultimately enhance air dominance and aircraft […]
Simba Chain announced that it has received a contract to develop a blockchain-based financial accountability tool for the U.S. Air Force. The company said that its work will support the Air Force’s Digital Blockchain Budgeting Accountability and Tracking project, which is aimed at creating token equivalents of dollars in the service’s supply chain. DiBaT would […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to build a high-capacity, long-duration energy storage system for the Department of Defense. Lockheed will install its GridStar Flow, a redox flow battery designed to store large amounts of power that is generated from renewable energy sources. It can also deploy stored energy to electric grids […]
A top Department of the Air Force technology official has highlighted how artificial intelligence is improving the military’s ability to make weather predictions. Winston Beauchamp, the deputy chief information officer at the DAF, said the department has been using AI to make up for lacking ground-sensor data that its weather prediction models need. DAF weather […]
