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The U.S. Combat Air Force Distributed Training Center was able to complete its virtual training event with the help of Northrop Grumman's Distributed Mission Operations Network. Northrop Grumman announced Thursday that its DMON Argonne 24 team linked multiple F-22 and F-35 aircraft using a networked virtual aircraft simulator presenting a multi-domain threat scenario.
The performance of Northrop Grumman's second-stage intercontinental ballistic missile solid rocket motor has been demonstrated before the U.S. Air Force at the branch's Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. The company announced Tuesday that it conducted a live, static-fire test of the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM stage-two rocket motor through a high-altitude and space flight simulation inside a vacuum chamber.
CACI International will provide the Defense Intelligence Agency with enterprise network modernization support under the eight-year, single award Enterprise Communications Services task order. Work will be carried out in support of the DIA's office of the chief information officer to meet a variety of network infrastructure requirements, including system design, implementation, operation and maintenance, CACI said Tuesday.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. and two partners conducted in November a flight test to demonstrate the ability of the MQ-20 Avenger to carry out a multi-objective collaborative combat mission and close the find, fix, track, target, engage and assess engagement chain using various autonomy technologies. GA-ASI said Tuesday it had provided its weapon-target pairing and electronic warfare autonomy skills for the flight test, which took place at the company's Desert Horizon Flight Operations Facility in California.
Booz Allen Hamilton will work with L3Harris Technologies to accelerate the development and delivery of the Distributed Battle Management Node Tactical Operations Center-Light prototype, a Booz Allen product meant to enable Combined Joint All-Domain Command & Control. The TOC-L prototype uses as a design baseline the Modular Detachment Kit, a multidomain integration agent for tactical command and control that has already been fielded in live-fire exercises and deployed by U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Booz Allen said Wednesday.
The government solutions business of secure collaboration platform developer Mattermost will partner with mobile mesh networking platform maker goTenna under a Phase II U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contract to enhance the service's tactical ChatOps functions. Mattermost said Tuesday that work under the SBIR award includes the development of a plugin for its platform that would work across Tactical Assault Kit servers, and the creation of transmission layer integrations within TAK with the use of goTenna's mesh radios.
L3Harris Technologies company Aerojet Rocketdyne has signed a 10-year public-private partnership agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division to increase solid rocket motor production for national defense applications. "Working in coordination with our government partners, we’re increasing our production capability to meet today’s growing demand and to prepare for any surge in support of near peer conflicts," Ross Niebergall, president of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said in a statement published Monday.
VivSoft Technologies has received a Strategic Fund Increase award to modernize the U.S. Air Force Unified Platform, which serves as a shared system for military cyber operations. Under the $15 million award, VivSoft said in a press release received by Executive Mosaic that it would develop and implement a set of UP capabilities — collectively referred to as UPV1 — that would containerize the UP data platform and provide Department of Defense users with zero trust access.
Jacobs and its subcontractors were instrumental in the Missile Defense Agency's flight demonstration of Ground-based Midcourse Defense Weapon System-12 interceptor against an intermediate-range ballistic missile. Jacobs, which leads the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions contract, said Wednesday that it deployed employees in different locations to provide IT services, connectivity and communications for the flight test.
The U.S. Army sealed a $50 million undefinitized contract action agreement with BAE Systems for the construction of M777 lightweight howitzer major structures. The transaction allows BAE to restart production of the titanium structures, the first lot of which is expected for delivery in 2025, the company said Thursday.
Bombardier Defense secured a U.S. Army contract in December to provide a Global 6500 aircraft in support of prototyping efforts under the service branch's High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System program. The firm-fixed-price contract awarded by Army Contracting Command includes options for two additional aircraft over a period of three years, the service said Wednesday.
CACI International and its small business partners landed three blanket purchase agreements to support the Department of the Air Force's Enterprise Information Technology as a Service Wave 1 program. The winning small business Contractor Team Arrangement members are Oneida Technical Solutions, Bowhead and Expansia and Enhanced Veteran Solutions, Hanscom Air Force Base announced Wednesday.
