Jeff Davis and Scott Scheferman, vice presidents at BlackBerry, wrote in a GCN article published published Friday that as communities develop smart cities, ransomware incidents across the globe are increasing the demand for cybersecurity.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected AECOM, Black & Veatch and Zapata Group to compete for architectural and engineering task orders under a potential five-year, $49M contract. USACE received seven bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet.

A senior executive at Raytheon announced that the company has secured a contract to build one of the payloads for the Blackjack program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Breaking Defense reported Friday.

Raytheon has collaborated with Black Sage to develop a unified drone tracking and prevention tool that can be utilized in both urban settings and military operations.

BlackBerry has demonstrated readiness to meet Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program requirements with a cloud-based platform designed to help government clients manage information technology endpoints. The company said Tuesday it achieved FedRAMP Ready designation for the Government Mobility Suite derived from the BlackBerry UEM mobile device management platform.

Quantum Spatial and a joint venture between Woolpert and environmental sustainability firm Black & Veatch have won spots on a $49M contract to help the U.S. Army conduct mapping and surveying activities.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary flew a Black Hawk helicopter aircraft through the use of an optionally piloted vehicle technology kit in a flight demonstration May 29.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a funding opportunity for the potential integration of military payloads with commercial satellite buses as part of the Blackjack demonstration program.

Black River Systems will provide open systems architecture software and hardware for U.S. Air Force counter-small unmanned aircraft systems under a three-year, $88.7M contract from the Small Business Innovation Research III program. 

The U.S. Army has chosen Blackboard to provide learning management systems for the military branch to educate approximately 350K service members as part of its Lifelong Learning Program.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary received a four-year, $23.4M contract to perform overhaul and maintenance work on UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army.

BlackBerry has established a new wholly owned subsidiary to help the company further build up partnerships with government agencies and advance Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-related initiatives. Robert "Bob" Day, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral, will serve as president of Washington, D.C.-based BlackBerry Government Solutions, the company said Tuesday.