The U.S. Air Forces Cyber Cryptologic Office has established an information management framework that will support the service’s information dominance mission. The first Converged Air Force Enterprise Mission framework will move the military branch to a sensor-agnostic and problem-centric architecture. CAFEM is focused on modernizing the current and outdated intelligence production framework and is designed […]
Software developer Charles River Analytics announced that it has been awarded funding by the Army to develop an improved system for intelligence collection planning and management. The deal calls for continued development on a platform to remove human error as well as to speed up the process of gathering critical information, CRA said Tuesday. In […]
American-Spanish aerospace company Skydweller Aero announced that its United States subsidiary has been awarded a $14 million contract with the Defense Innovation Unit, in conjunction with the Navy, to advance and integrate technologies in support of the development of its extreme-endurance, solar-powered aircraft. The deal paves the way for the development of military-grade unmanned aerial systems […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles River Analytics a $600,000 contract to continue developing an onboard artificial intelligence-based threat avoidance system for uncrewed surface vehicles. The award was issued after CRA demonstrated a prototype system. The company’s Management of Intelligent Navigation for Condition-based Ocean Safe Transit is an AI system for USVs that can automatically […]
NewSat North America, a defense communications company, announced that it has secured a multi-million dollar contract to support the Navy’s Communications and Global Positioning System Navigation program office, or PMW/A-170. The company said that the new contract calls for cybersecurity, engineering and technical support services. The deal includes a one-year base period of performance and […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded facial recognition and computer vision company Paravision a basic ordering agreement to support the Data Readiness for AI Development program, which has a potential value of $241 million. Paravision will provide expertise in complex AI systems and machine learning models. The company will also deploy its ethics committee […]
The Department of Defense has awarded Maryland-based Hughes Network Systems a three-year, $18 million other transaction agreement to deploy a standalone 5G network at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington. Hughes will serve as the prime contractor for the work. The task is part of the ongoing DOD 5G experimentation activity, which is led […]
The Department of Defense has awarded Logistics Management Institute and Morse Corp. a $241 million basic ordering agreement to support the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center‘s Data Readiness AI Development program. The program is designed to scale AI across the Pentagon. According to Kristen Cheman, vice president of digital and analytics solutions at LMI and a […]
Teal Drones, a Red Cat Holdings subsidiary, said it was chosen to develop a prototype small aerial reconnaissance drone for the U.S. Army with a focus on autonomy. Work will be done as part of the Short Range Reconnaissance Tranche 2 program of record managed by the Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Army, Teal […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded engineering firm Solute a Digital Integration Support Cell task order to migrate the Naval Air Systems Command’s Minotaur Family of Services onto a cloud platform that will facilitate the use of development security operations. To support MFoS, Solute will use existing work done as part of the Black Pearl platform. […]
