The Department of Defense's innovation arm has selected five companies to build prototypes of commercial lithium batteries to address power requirements in fighter jets and helicopters. NanoGraf, Bren-Tronics, Xentris Wireless division EXO Charge, Enersys and Teledyne Technologies will develop prototypes under the Defense Innovation Unit's Family of Advanced Standard Batteries project, DIU said Thursday.

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Ken Sharp has been appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer at Peraton, a role in which he will oversee the company’s financial activities. He will succeed John Kavanaugh and report to Chairman, President and CEO Stu Shea, the Reston, Virginia-based enterprise announced on Monday.

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Ishita Yameen, a 25-year GovCon industry veteran, has been appointed senior vice president of business development at Simple Technology Solutions, a small business focused on providing enterprise cloud and data platforms and services for federal government clients. In this role, she will leverage her knowledge of emerging technologies and drive the adoption of industry best practices to advance the company's business development strategies, STS said Wednesday.

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Carahsoft Technology will serve as a master government aggregator for runZero to offer the company’s cyber asset attack surface management platform to the public sector. Carahsoft said Thursday CAASM is currently available via its reseller partners and its NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - Software 2, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and OMNIA Partners contracts.

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Northrop Grumman completed a full-scale static test fire of a new solid rocket motor that was produced with materials and processes that shorten lead times by 75 percent. The event is part of the Solid Motor Annual Rocket Technology Demonstrator program, the company said Friday.

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The Department of State has approved the Israeli government's request to purchase nearly 14,000 tank shells and related equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $106.5 million foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the State Department waived congressional review requirements under the Arms Export Control Act to supply Israel with 120mm M830A1 High Explosive Anti-Tank Multi-Purpose with Tracer tank cartridges from the U.S. Army inventory.

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The Forward Defense program in the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security has established a new commission tasked with developing recommendations on improving the U.S. military's production and integration of advanced software technologies. Mark Esper, former secretary of defense; Christine Fox, former acting deputy secretary of defense; and Mung Chiang, president of Purdue University, have been named co-chairs of the Commission on Software-Defined Warfare, the Atlantic Council said Friday.

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Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Kim Crider has been appointed to the board of advisers of satellite design and manufacturing company Proteus Space, bringing to the role years of software and technology implementation experience. Crider was part of the Air Force for over three decades, most recently serving as U.S. Space Force chief technology innovation officer, Proteus Space said Thursday.

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The Air Force Research Laboratory is planning a research and development project focused on techniques and processes that lead to the creation of biomaterials, bioprocesses and related technologies, and has issued a request for information for the effort. These advanced technologies are envisioned to sustain or optimize Air Force assets, according to the RFI posted Friday on SAM.gov.

The latest developments in cutting-edge technologies for the U.S. military will be discussed at the Potomac Officers Club's 10th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit, which will take place in January. Register now.

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James McHale, the Solutions Architect for Crowley Services has had a significant career and took on roles such as a Contracting Officer’s Representative for the U.S. Transportation Command.   You can gain valuable and fresh insights from his experience in the military and time spent in Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly in defense logistics and readiness.   […] More

Dcode Capital, a J.P. Morgan Asset Management-backed company, announced a fourth investment from its inaugural fund in oneNav. Dcode Capital said Thursday that oneNav is the inventor of a Global Navigation Satellite System receiver that exclusively works with the L5 signal, an upgrade to legacy Global Positioning System signals that offers greater location accuracy while being harder to jam or spoof – qualities that suggest potential applications for the U.S. Department of Defense.

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L3Harris Technologies has partnered with Infleqtion to develop and deploy a new quantum radio frequency sensing technology designed to advance quantum-enhanced communication capabilities for dual-use applications. The partnership aims to create an RF receiver capable of tuning signal frequencies from hertz to terahertz while maintaining resiliency to jamming and interference, Infleqtion said Thursday.

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