Boeing has secured the St. Louis Airport Commission’s approval to lease approximately 158 acres of land near Lambert International Airport for its planned $1.8 billion business expansion in the city, St. Louis Business Journal reported Wednesday. According to Boeing, the expansion project or “Operation Voyager” is aimed at enabling the aerospace company to further pursue […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office is inviting the industry to submit research ideas to address existing and future challenges in information and communication technologies. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov states that the Forward-Looking Experimentation program aims to identify ICT innovations in seven topics: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing; distributed […] More

Robust Intelligence, creator of the AI Risk Database, worked with Mitre to develop and launch an open-source version of the free online tool on GitHub. Mitre said Wednesday the update aims to make it easier for organizations to assess the supply chain risks of artificial intelligence models that are available to the public. The partnership […] More

The growth of the government contracting industry ushered in partnerships with the private sector, new market reaches, and job opportunities. On the other hand, this growth also opened the way for threats to come in and wreak havoc on crucial data and supply chain security.    What is supply chain security? Supply chain security is […] More

A report by the Cyber Safety Review Board outlines findings on the activities associated with an extortion-focused threat actor group called Lapsus$ and offers 10 recommendations for government and industry stakeholders to protect their infrastructure from cyberthreats posed by Lapsus$ and related groups. The CSRB report found that Lapsus$ performed attacks against dozens of government […] More

Dedrone has named Sara Devitt, an executive with more than two decades of talent-focused experience, as chief people officer responsible for driving the smart airspace security company’s global people strategy. She will also lead Dedrone’s talent acquisition, development and retention efforts to ensure its workforce is equipped to support current hyper-growth phase, the Sterling, Virginia-based […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has partnered with Australian start-up Hypersonix Launch Systems to offer the latter’s hypersonic technology demonstrator to the U.S. defense market. The San Diego, California-headquartered company said Wednesday it will procure 20 Hypersonix DART AE Hypersonic Systems and integrate the technology with its Zeus line of solid rocket propulsion systems. The […] More

The Department of Defense has selected Lockheed Martin, Intel, Qorvo and Ayar Labs for a prototype project that seeks to further develop optical input/output technologies to enable high-speed data communications. The Co-Packaged Analog-Drive High-Bandwidth Optical Input/Output or KANAGAWA prototype project was awarded through the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems other transaction authority. […] More

Northrop Grumman has finished producing initial cases for the solid rocket booster that will power a next-generation interceptor being developed for the Missile Defense Agency as part of an industry competition. The company said Tuesday it will equip Next-Generation Interceptor motors with inert propellant and deliver the hardware to Redstone Arsenal in Alabama for integration […] More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded Valiant an $18 million task order to perform a range of cyber-related support services over a two-year period. The award is part of the Mission Assurance program of DTRA’s Nuclear Enterprise Support Directorate, the Herndon, Virginia-based contractor said Wednesday. Valiant’s responsibilities will include threat-emulative cyber assessments, planning and coordination […] More

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, will build and test a satellite communications pod under a $36 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The objective is to produce and demonstrate a pod capable of functioning beyond the line of sight and compatible with civilian and military satellites across diverse orbital ranges, RTX said Wednesday. Ryan […] More

A Textron subsidiary has received a potential $19.5 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command to provide uncrewed aerial system operation support for three U.S. Navy littoral combat ships. Textron Systems said Wednesday it will use its Aerosonde UAS to deliver extended-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services to two Independence-class vessels and one Freedom-class ship. […] More