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Perspecta’s applied research arm has received a potential 45-month, $18.5 million contract to develop a platform for long-range tactical radio communications under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. Perspecta Labs will build, prototype and test an adaptive distributed array system that works with unmodified tactical waveforms and existing tactical radios as part of DARPA’s Resilient Networked Distributed Mosaic Communications program.

The U.S. Air Force performed flights of the General Atomics-built MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft equipped with the Reaper Defense Electronic Support System and a digital recorder in Europe through remote split operations. RDESS is an electronic support measure payload that provides MQ-9 with electronic sensing capability by gathering and geolocating signals of interest from standoff ranges, while the digital recorder collects multispectral targeting pod data to further develop machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.

Ace Info Solutions has received a potential $37 million task order to help the U.S. Forest Service's natural resource manager directorate sustain agency information technology tools and applications. The Dovel Technologies subsidiary said Thursday it will perform operation and maintenance work on more than 70 systems that support agency business processes under the five-year task, as part of the Department of Agriculture IT Support blanket purchase agreement.

Gabe Camarillo, senior vice president of the Army Business Unit for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding SAIC’s reorganization of the business unit, the advancing capabilities and modernization initiatives for the service branch, recent contracts to expand the company’s HWIL, engineering and support services as well as SAIC’s establishment in the Huntsville market and goals for the rest of 2021. 

This week, first-time Wash100 inductee Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ascended to the top spot in the Popular Vote for the most influential executives in the government, industry and academia that are shaping the GovCon community in 2021. Visit the Wash100 website to see the current Top 30 voting results and vote for your favorite executive leaders by April 30.

VSE announced Tuesday that it secured approximately $37.5 million in combined new contract awards from the U.S. Air Force and a U.S. government foreign ally. The maintenance and repair work under both contracts is expected to begin during the second quarter of the year.

The White House plans to nominate Ely Ratner as assistant secretary for Indo-Pacific security affairs at the Department of Defense and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient Stacey Dixon as principal deputy director at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Ratner is a special assistant to the secretary of defense and director of DOD’s China Task Force while Dixon serves as deputy director at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 22, 2021 — MetTel has received authority to operate from the General Services Administration and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for its security services after the company completed the assessment and certification process under the Trusted Internet Connection initiative, GovCon Wire reported April 9.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 22, 2021 — Gabe Camarillo, senior vice president of Science Applications International Corp.’s Army business unit, said the company will provide modeling and simulation services in support of the software, simulation, systems engineering and integration directorate under the Aviation and Missile Center of Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, GovCon Wire reported April 8.

Google, Microsoft and Amazon released cloud computing tools to help state and local health agencies accelerate the vaccination signup process as COVID-19 vaccines become available to almost everyone in the U.S, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

A Raytheon Technologies business is developing a next generation decoy technology to provide F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft with added protection against enemy missiles. Raytheon Intelligence and Space has designed the Dual-Band Decoy to attract hostile missiles by sending out signals that cover a wider range of bands in the electromagnetic spectrum, the company said Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force has tapped LinQuest to help the Space Command become fully operational by providing knowledge-based services, advisory and assistance needed for its continuous development. The company was awarded a $31.7 million USAF cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the provision of non-personnel services.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has booked follow-on contracts worth more than $30 million combined to provide technology for use in U.S. national security space missions. “Space is undergoing a renaissance. Advancements in ground systems and satellite technologies are joining to form space networks that support multi-domain missions and broader data requirements," said Phil Carrai, president of the space, training and cybersecurity division at Kratos.

Mercury Systems has introduced a spectrum processing platform designed to expedite the development of signal intelligence, electronic warfare and software-defined radio applications. The Rappid platform is an open, modular architecture that could help accelerate the deployment of EW technologies and other capabilities and reduce integration costs by enabling system developers to use the same firmware and software on different hardware implementations.

ORock Technologies has introduced a new cloud computing offering developed in partnership with Intel and Lockheed Martin to provide organizations with a capability to tackle high performance computing applications and workloads in cloud or virtualized environments while ensuring the security of the process.