Joe Shepherd, vice president of directed energy innovation at Booz Allen Hamilton, said he believes the Department of Defense should increase funding for directed energy research efforts to $2 billion to encourage industry and academia to pursue work in the development of ultrashort pulse lasers and other capabilities. Shepherd wrote in a piece published Tuesday […] More
Spirit AeroSystems has opened a new research center at Wichita State University in Kansas to advance work on high temperature materials, such as hypersonic weapons, for aviation, defense and space programs. The National Defense Prototype Center covers over 125,000-square-foot of space for manufacturing and laboratory activities such as material processing and characterization work, the Wichita, […] More
The Defense Innovation Unit issued success memos to Zscaler, Google and McAfee for their secure cloud access platform prototypes and Rick Simon, program manager for the Secure Cloud Management project at DIU, said the agency will likely choose one of the prototypes to transition into the production phase in the first quarter of fiscal year […] More
The Defense Logistics Agency intends to procure from Raytheon Technologies engineering services and other technical requirements needed to support the Patriot weapon system program efforts in the U.S. and international locations. According to its presolicitation notice posted Friday on SAM.gov, the anticipated sole-source action onto Raytheon’s current indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has an $8 billion ceiling […] More
Farooq Mitha, who leads the Department of Defense’s Office of Small Business Programs, has detailed DOD efforts to mitigate the declining number of small businesses in the defense marketplace as the said suppliers are considered as an essential part of the industrial base. In a commentary piece Business Insider published Tuesday, Mitha wrote that small […] More
The Department of Defense has approved a static application security testing tool from Parasoft for use on government software development programs while meeting security and compliance standards. Defense agencies can now deploy Parasoft’s C/C++test containerized offering to meet the military’s growing applications needs without compromising software security and development speed, the Monrovia, California-based automated software […] More
L3Harris Technologies has launched a packet-based, anti-jam network connection platform designed to support warfighters on the battlefield. Transport Aggregation Gateway is a patented technology that can automatically link soldiers across multiple communications networks and can lock in resilient anti-jam connections for primary, alternate, contingency and emergency communication data transfers in support of Department of Defense […] More
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded a total of $14 million to seven companies to develop small unmanned aircraft systems for military use. DIU issued the Defense Production Act Title III Program awards as part of the Blue sUAS initiative to expand the availability of commercial technologies in national defense missions. The awardees include Kutta […] More
The U.S. Navy is looking for potential vendors to develop product architecture domain modeling prototypes for assessing the cybersecurity posture of naval platforms, systems and subsystems. The PADM capability will help Navy officials in speeding up the way they respond to cyber threats compared to the service’s current labor-intensive seven-step risk management process, according to […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business has secured a $79.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide design, integrated data and product model environment support for littoral combat ships. Work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and cost-only modification will run through October 2022, the Department of Defense said Monday. The award modifies an […] More
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