Metron and Cellula Robotics will develop long-duration uncrewed underwater vehicle platforms for U.S. defense, offshore energy, marine scientific exploration and subsea telecommunications markets under a strategic partnership agreement. Metron said Tuesday it will integrate its Resilient Mission Autonomy portfolio with Cellula's Solus and Imotus families of vehicles to provide artificial intelligence-powered situational awareness and real-time mission adaption capabilities.

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Metron will develop an integrated planning system for joint force missions under a potential 46-month, $81.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Metron will perform risk reduction work over 10 months and proceed with spiral development efforts if the service branch exercises the three 12-month option periods, the Department of Defense […] More

Charles River Analytics collaborated with scientific consulting firm Metron and three universities to create approaches that will facilitate adaptation of unmanned underwater vehicle software to changes in the platform's internal and external environments.

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A MobileIron–Metronome Software team has received a $749,930 grant from the Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate to develop technology for first responders to secure mobile device-based sensor systems. Both companies will work to create a security overlay designed to comply with security and data provenance requirements under the Next Generation First Responder framework, MobileIron said […] More

Metron has won a potential four-year, $33.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design, test and implement software to facilitate autonomous operation of unmanned undersea vehicles. The company will also design and integrate government-provided hardware to help address autonomy goals for various military missions, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur in Virginia, California and Maine […] More

Metron has won a potential $12.8 million contract to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planning system for the U.S. Navy to counter adversarial ISR networks. The Navy will use the C-ISR system to plan coordinated friendly force movement emissions control, denial and deception operations, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The contract contains an 18-month base period, three optional […] More

John Kefaliotis, formerly Exelis vice president of international strategy and business development, has been appointed as president of Airbus Group‘s air traffic management subsidiary. Airbus said Monday Kefaliotis provides more than 40 years of air traffic management experience in operational air traffic control, government services and systems contracting to support Metron Aviation‘s mission. “With air traffic doubling […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded 17 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $59.5 million contract to develop and sustain nontactical business and enterprise information applications and related systems. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific in San Diego received 24 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has a base period of two years valued at approximately […] More

NASA has added 13 companies and a university to its project that aims to implement the use of air taxis, cargo delivery systems and other new commercial air vehicles across U.S. airspace. The space agency said Friday its Advanced Air Mobility project tasks participants to demonstrate the flight of their air vehicles and support the […] More

Charles River Analytics has partnered with Metron and three universities to create a machine learning platform that would support the development of adaptive software systems.

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Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Navatek will help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop and test new unmanned underwater vehicles designed for long-duration performance.

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Seventeen companies have signed five-year Space Act Agreements with NASA to take part in developmental testing activities as part of the agency’s Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge. NASA said Wednesday the challenge seeks to test the readiness and capabilities of vehicles that could transform mobility in densely populated areas.

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