The Department of the Air Force has awarded a $5.7 billion blanket purchase agreement to an industry team led by CACI NSS for Enterprise Technology-as-a-Service Wave 1. Under Wave 1, the industry team will provide improved and consolidated service desks for over 700,000 users worldwide. The effort will expand from the Air Force’s initial EITaaS […]
Aerospace company Boeing has delivered the first four MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters to the U.S. Air Force. The company secured a supplemental type certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration before it could deliver the aircraft. The certification means the Air Force can start military utility testing for the MH-139A, Breaking Defense reported Monday. The Grey […]
AFWERX, the Department of the Air Force‘s innovation arm, has awarded Centennial, Colorado-based Nuburua a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to develop a blue laser-based 3D printing solution with area printing technology. Nuburu will have one year to demonstrate how its blue laser technology will improve the speed and accuracy of 3D printing. […]
The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded engineering and IT company Leidos a potential $358 million contract to design and build a medium-size unmanned undersea vehicle. The MUUV must support intelligence preparation and provide submarine-based autonomous oceanographic sensing and data collection. It should also provide surface-launched and recovered mine countermeasures. Leidos will work with L3Harris […]
BAE Systems has secured a $17.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support the Generating RF with Photonic Oscillators for Low Noise program. Under the contract, BAE’s FAST Labs will work on high-performance electronic oscillators, which require large amounts of energy from bulky systems. FAST Labs will use BAE’s solutions to […]
Robotics company Stratom has booked a U.S. Army contract to build a perimeter safety system for the Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light that would help protect personnel or combatants. The Colorado-based, veteran-owned company announced that it won the contract for the Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light. Stratom’s solution, dubbed Perimeter Safety for Autonomous Vehicles, is a computer system that […]
The Department of Defense has selected data infrastructure artificial intelligence provider Torch AI‘s software to enhance the System for Insider Threat Hindrance capability. SITH is an offering that allows users to monitor threats that could come from within an organization. Torch AI initially developed it alongside the DOD Chief of Digital and AI Office’s Directorate […]
Salt Lake City-headquartered company PassiveLogic has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to continue working on artificial intelligence-enabled predictive building controls. The partnership will last for two years and will focus on the Superlearners machine learning technology, which enables autonomy for building applications. The company will use […]
Huntington Ingalls Industries has secured a five-year, $127 million task order to provide emerging technologies research, development, test and evaluation support to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Under the task order, HII will develop hardware and software capabilities and provide systems engineering, research and analysis to improve DSCA’s systems integration capabilities. The support services are […]
Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet plans to release its data and artificial intelligence strategy and implementation plan before the end of summer. The announcement came as Task Force Hopper, the unit in charge of creating the plan, reached the final phase of the document’s development. Capt. Pete Kim, the director of Task Force Hopper, […]
