The National Spectrum Consortium and the Department of Defense are seeking white papers on 5G open radio access network technologies. The consortium is a 408-member organization dedicated to promoting stakeholder engagement in spectrum-related capabilities and policy, its website says. According to the DOD, a shift to an open ecosystem of RAN vendors would accelerate U.S. […]
Navy Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth III, a 2022 Wash 100 winner, has been appointed as the eighth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He will lead the NGA under the authorities of the Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence. Whitworth handled various leadership roles across different combatant commands and military installations. Some of […]
Officials at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas revealed that equipment acquired early in 2022 has given its repair and maintenance crews the capability to reproduce obsolete aircraft parts. The 7th Equipment Maintenance Squadron Fabrication Flight has been fabricating in-house aircraft and ground equipment parts that are no longer produced by their original manufacturers, Dyess […]
San Diego-headquartered Cubic Corporation announced that it has been awarded a subcontract by Carley Corporation under its prime contract with the Navy to deliver training content that sailors would need over the course of their careers. Specifically, the award supports the Sailor 2025 Ready, Relevant Learning Fiscal Year 2022 Content Conversion contract, Cubic said Thursday. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has transitioned 95 milCloud 2.0 accounts ahead of the scheduled shutdown of the cloud platform. In an interview with Federal News Network, Sharon Woods, the director of the Host and Compute Center at DISA, said 60 of the 95 accounts went to DISA’s Stratus private cloud offering. She added that […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with a group of companies leading the development of advanced active electronically scanned array technologies. According to DARPA, the development of AESAs is a top priority in ensuring that the U.S. military maintains an advantage in electronic warfare. In a previous release about the program, the agency […]
Luxembourg-headquartered Kleos Space announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division for joint data experimentation. The agreement is the first phase of a collaboration between the Navy, industry players, academia and other Department of Defense technology partners called the SCOUT Experimentation Campaign, Kleos […]
General Dynamics Information Technology has secured a task order from the Department of Defense to deliver a suite of Microsoft Office 365 applications for the U.S. Marine Corps. The award is under the 10-year, $4.4 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud contract. Under the task order, GDIT will work with computer company Microsoft to deliver […]
The Department of Defense‘s research arm has announced the three industry teams involved in its Mission-Integrated Network Control program. MINC is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s effort to develop a new capability to securely deliver data to the right person in a contested environment. The goal of the program is to give warfighters “on-demand” […]
The reality of the Department of Defense’s artificial intelligence projects is “much more mundane” than what some might be imagining, a top technology official at the Pentagon said. Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the DOD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, said that AI is being used to drive business and production environments, C4ISRNET reported Friday. […]
