Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, has said the Pentagon is facing challenges in managing the vast amount of data it collects from the battlefield due to the rapidly changing and growing technologies used by the military.
Perspecta has teamed up with Abaco Systems through its research arm to market a data bus platform that works to help warfighters safeguard weapons systems from cyber attacks. Perspecta Labs developed the 1553 Bus Defender platform, also called MIL-STD-1553, under a research program of the Defense Department, the company said Thursday. Abaco has begun to […] More
Engility has received a $9.3 million contract modification to update additional electronic warfare weapons systems used on manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, training systems and other electronic attack platforms for the U.S. Navy and the Australian government. The Defense Department said Monday the modification covers EW systems development, systems engineering, hardware and software engineering, data and threat analysis, mission […] More
The U.S. Air Force‘s 402nd Software Maintenance Group has awarded IndraSoft a five-year, $38 million task order for software sustainment and development, laboratory, cybersecurity and systems engineering services. The company said Wednesday it will provide support services for SMXG’s operational flight programs, test program sets, mission support and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business lines at Robins […] More
The U.S. Navy has begun a market survey in search of potential vendors that can help the service branch to research and develop new technology that will work to advance defense systems-related scientific and technical data. A sources source notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Panama City division looks to conduct weapons systems R&D as part of the Navy's Rapid […] More
Britain-based industrial team UK Dragonfire will conduct the Laser Directed Energy Weapons Capability Demonstrator under a potential $39.2 million deal with the U.K.’s ministry of defense. MBDA said Friday the group will look to mature the country’s high energy laser weapon systems capacity as well as technologies for a high energy defensive laser weapon system that can engage with targets […] More
Parsons will support weapons systems development efforts at the Missile Defense Agency under a five-year, $455.1 million contract awarded in June. The company said Thursday the contract covers all phases of systems engineering for six MDA weapons systems. “Parsons has been proud to provide technical, engineering, analysis, and modeling and simulation support to the MDA and its predecessors […] More
Serco Inc. has been awarded a potential $31 million contract to install and update close-in weapons systems on U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and U.S. Coast Guard ships. The contract contains a one-year base period and two option years, Serco said Monday. “This program is a great addition to our C4ISR portfolio and we are ready to […] More
Cubic Corp.’s subsidiary Cubic Defense Systems has won a contract worth more than $10 million to install weapons systems into the U.S. Marine Corps‘ instrumented-tactical engagement simulation system, a ground combat training simulator. The company will design, build, install and test the upgrade into a squad immersive training environment and the I-TESS II, Cubic said Thursday. […] More
ATK and Alenia Aermacchi have performed the first of a series of tests on an U.S. Air Force aircraft model developed to carry out both cargo handling and attack missions. The companies integrated ATK’s GAU-23 cannon into Alenia's C-27J Spartan airlifter to assess its weapons systems and firing configurations, the companies said Friday. Bill Kasting, […] More
