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The U.S. Army is slated to host an industry event Dec. 1 to determine and address concerns in an Air Force-led joint all-domain command and control initiative, Inside Defense reported Friday. The virtual roundtable discussion will provide an overview of Project Convergence and share details in line with a planned sensor-to-shooter demonstration in 2021.

U.S. Special Operations Command and its partnership with the DefenseWerx nonprofit organization will jointly host a four-day virtual event to inform companies about an upcoming project to develop a system for data collection and analysis.

The U.S. Army has indicated its plan to host a virtual briefing event on or before July 13 to supplement its market research into potential mission system configurations for two aircraft acquisition programs.

The U.S. Navy will hold a series of virtual industry days to brief members of the Information Warfare Research Project Consortium on 10 topics to be covered by upcoming requests for prototype projects.

The U.S. Navy has scheduled a two-day virtual event for next month to discuss the objectives, requirements and schedule of the service branch’s Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program.

The Naval Sea Systems Command plans to host an industry day online to discuss next-generation logistics ships that will build on existing commercial designs.

A U.S. Navy program executive office will host a two-day virtual event later this month to provide information and collect feedback on its plan to procure an unmanned surface vehicle platform for locating and destroying naval mines. The industry day for the Mine Countermeasures USV program will be held on May 27 and 28, Naval Sea Systems Command said Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force has expressed its intention to award contracts for third-party refuelling tanker aircraft for tests, training and other flights, FlightGlobal reported Saturday.

The U.S. Army is slated to host an industry day on Jan. 23 to discuss details in line with a planned soldier-and-squad framework for the service branch.

Several industry representatives and the U.S. Air Force discussed emerging research and development efforts at the 2019 Dayton Defense Wright Dialogue in Ohio. “We have to get back to work and start thinking about everything that still needs to be done, and that will require a great deal of out-of-the-box thinking from each and every one of us,” Roger Krone, CEO of Leidos and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, said during his keynote speech.

The Defense and Advanced Research Projects Agency’s defense science office will hold an industry event June 18 to discuss technical details in line with a broad agency announcement scheduled in the same month. The Discover DSO Day aims to provide information on the office’s objectives and methodologies used in streamlining and accelerating the proposal process, DARPA said Monday.

The U.S. Army plans to award six contracts under the Enterprise Information Technology as a Service program using its “other transaction” authority, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. “We are using the OTA process to do the prototyping of how to execute EITaaS more rapidly,” Tara Clements, a spokesperson for the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems, said in an email.

Components of the Department of Homeland Security plan to launch a new research and development funding program in a bid to improve the security of mobile network infrastructures in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a solicitation for novel technologies and methods designed to protect mobile communications networks from threats. DHS said Monday a broad agency announcement published on FedBizOpps involves a research-and-development project focused on Secure and Resilient Mobile Network Infrastructure.

The CIA hosted on March 22 an industry day as it plans to award by 2021 a cloud contract worth “tens of billions” of dollars to multiple service providers in support of its national security mission, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.