The U.S. Air Force has named three defense contractors to build drone prototypes for the Skyborg program. The service awarded Kratos, Boeing and General Atomics contracts valued at $37.8M, $25.7M and $14.3M, respectively. The companies are tasked to produce the prototypes for the program’s air vehicle segment and to compete in a series of experiments […]
The Department of Defense has announced that the details of the $11.7B network consolidation contract will be issued by yearend following a two-month deferment. The Defense Enclave Services, considered as the “crown jewel” of the agency’s IT reform efforts, will unify the various networks of the 22 DoD organizations, referred to as Fourth Estate agencies, […]
Stephen Wallace, systems innovation scientist for the emerging technology directorate at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said the organization has started looking into encryption capabilities to protect the Department of Defense communications from quantum computers. He noted that quantum-resistant encryption is the latest technological area of focus for the agency, C4ISRNet reported Friday. At DISA’s […]
Parsons has launched a series of cloud-native stream platforms designed to help government and commercial customers meet their data-processing requirements. The company announced two distributions: Cloud Native Streaming Platform and Kubernetes Native Streaming Platform. CNSP is already in use within the Intelligence Community, while KNSP is a newly developed platform, Parsons said Wednesday. “Both platforms […]
The CIA plans to release a solicitation for the Cloud Integration and Multi-Cloud Management contract, a single-award deal that would help the agency link up its multicloud environment. The agency previously awarded spots on the multibillion-dollar Cloud Computing Enterprise contract to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, International Business Machines, Oracle and Google. Under the new CMMI […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has identified the three technology areas that it will focus on in fiscal years 2021 and 2022: cyber defense, could computing and the Defense Enterprise Office Solution. DEOS is an enterprise commercial cloud environment contract vehicle created to help the Department of Defense acquire and implement enterprise applications and services […]
The United States and Australia are working to design and test an air-launched hypersonic cruise missile to be deployed in the military within the next five to 10 years. The new weapon will be a Mach 5-class precision strike missile driven by an air-breathing scramjet engine, Defense News reported Tuesday. The joint effort is part […]
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. has landed a $93.3M smart sensor contract to support the efforts of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to improve the autonomous sensing capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles. The agreement is meant to advance artificial intelligence technology using object-recognition algorithms in the drone systems, Air Force Technology said Wednesday. In addition, […]
Databricks has secured a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program High authority to operate, validating Azure Databricks security and compliance for data analytics and artificial intelligence meant for the commercial and public sector markets. The FedRAMP government initiative is meant to unify the method of security assessment, authorization and monitoring for cloud services as indicated […]
The U.S. Air Force has been using the latest technologies such as data analytics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence to enhance the training of undergraduate pilots and address pilot shortage. Through the Pilot Training Next program, Air Force Education and Training Command reinvents pilot instructions and adopts innovative methods that can be customized for each […]
