The Air Force has awarded drone software developer Shield AI a contract to fast-track the integration of its artificial intelligence pilot into various military platforms. Shield AI said it received the highest amount that can be awarded under the Air Force’s AFWERX Strategic Funding Increase program. AFWERX is a program office tasked with supporting innovative […]
L3Harris Technologies has won a competitive 10-year, $750 million single-award indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract from the U.S. Marine Corps for multi-channel handheld and vehicular radio systems. Specifically, the Marines have selected the Falcon IV family of manpack and handheld radios, which already enjoys widespread acceptance in the Army, Special Operations Command, Air Force and a growing number […]
The Universities Space Research Association, a nonprofit organization under the National Academy of Sciences, has launched the second phase of its quantum computing project with the Department of Defense. Under the terms of a new award, USRA will continue working on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices program. […]
Seattle-based Stratolaunch announced that it has been awarded a research contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The contract, which will be carried out in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton, calls for the examination and assessment of the feasibility of hypersonic flight tests of a wide range of Air Force experiments and payloads on a […]
Technology solutions provider Anduril Industries has secured a $1 billion contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command for counter-drone systems integration work. According to a contract announcement, Anduril will deliver, advance and sustain counter-unmanned systems capabilities for special operations forces deployed in different locations. Anduril’s counter-drone system includes the Sentry tower and the Anvil unmanned […]
Advanced IT Concepts, a systems integration company, has won a prime spot on a potential $800 million Department of Defense contract for technical services. The Total Engineering & Integration Services IV program is a 10-year multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle that covers systems engineering, cybersecurity, classified audio-visual systems, data analytics, cloud solutions, satellite communications and emerging […]
The National Security Agency has published a technical report aimed at addressing long-standing cybersecurity issues with the PDF file format. The NSA advised administrators not to disable the setting in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC that allows JavaScript despite the security risks associated with the programming language, Nextgov reported. According to the report, some administrators choose […]
The Air Force has sufficient time to complete its hypersonic missile testing and start production of the new weapon system before fiscal year 2022 comes to a close. Air Force Brig. Gen. Heath Collins said meeting the timetable depends on how soon engineers can determine the cause of the booster malfunction that caused the AGM-183A […]
Top Aces, a provider of airborne training services, has started testing an F-16 jet fighter equipped with a technology suite designed to give Air Force fighters a more realistic training partner. According to Top Aces, the Advanced Aggressor Mission System has an open mission systems architecture that allows airmen to swap in new sensors and […]
Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman recently showed that a lone user can control over 100 unmanned systems as part of a swarm in an urban battlefield setting. The experiment was part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that calls for up to 250 small aerial and ground unmanned systems deployed in urban areas, […]
