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Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin's Demonstrations and Prototypes organization and the University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) recently successfully showcased a crewed-uncrewed teaming mission.
The Skunk Works and OPL teams conducted a series of flight tests that... Read More »
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and Rain, California-based autonomous aerial wildfire containment technology company, recently demonstrated how autonomous Black Hawk helicopters can be used to fight fires.
During the 30-minute flight demonstration, a helicopter using Sikorsky’s MATRIX... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded RTX’s BBN Technologies a contract Thursday that will support the agency’s Compartmentalization and Privilege management (COM) program.
The CPM worker to enhance cyber resilience by automatically subdividing software systems into... Read More »
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo recently appointed 11 public safety, technology, and business leaders to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) board of directors.
FirstNet Authority is an independent entity within the Department of Commerce’s National... Read More »
Royal Philips will accelerate the predictive health monitoring of the Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure (RATE) algorithm for active service personnel now that the U.S. Department of Defense has invested in it.
Following a successful development and pilot program, the RATE technology using... Read More »
The U.S. Army has awarded RTX’s Raytheon a $676 million contract to continue manufacturing the TOW weapon system.
The tube-launched, optically tracked, wireless-guided TOW system will be in service with the U.S. and allied forces beyond 2050, officials said. The contracts cover two separate... Read More »
A DNA project lawfully owed by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has helped law enforcement collect 3,000 DNA profiles of serious criminal offenders over the past five years and logged them into the national Combined DNA Index System.
The system can exonerate individuals who were... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently submitted a $184 million contract modification to BAE Systems, a London-based defense and space manufacturing company, for 48 additional Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPV).
The modification is to an existing full-rate production contract.
The AMPV family of... Read More »
Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corp., a leading global aerospace and defense technology company, recently introduced the Forward Area Air Defense (FAAD) Advanced Battle Manager (ABM) system, an artificial intelligence (AI) feature to help warfighters make real-time decisions.
FAAD is... Read More »
The Justice Department recently unsealed a warrant authorizing the seizure of 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to commit computer fraud and abuse in the United States.
“Today’s seizure of 41 internet domains reflects the Justice Department’s cyber... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently awarded 35 grants under the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, totaling $18 million.
The program provides financial assistance to eligible applicants to pilot innovative violence and terrorism prevention approaches, to... Read More »
On Friday, an earthquake early warning system worked, officials said, notifying millions of Californians of a 4.7 magnitude earthquake up to 20 seconds before the shaking started.
Officials said that at 7:28 a.m. on Sept. 13, an earthquake centered 4.4 miles north of Malibu was felt across... Read More »
Science, technology and engineering solutions provider KBR announced Tuesday it had acquired LinQuest Corporation.
The acquisition will allow KBR to strengthen its capabilities across space, air dominance and connected battlespace missions, the company said. LinQuest, a provider of advanced... Read More »
On Thursday, the U.S. Army announced it had awarded the Javelin Joint Venture (JJV) contract to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
The $1.3 billion contract is the largest single-year Javelin production contract covers Javelin missiles and associated equipment and services. The joint venture contract... Read More »
On August 7, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it had awarded seven more Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program awards to seven more firms.
The awards brings the number of awards to date up to 13 for a total of $23 million. Awardees included Modular Genetics, Battelle and... Read More »
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it had awarded more than $46 million in grants to support basic research in national security topics.
The DoD awarded 19 grants to university-based faculty teams under its Minerva Research Initiative. The grants are three- to five-year awards... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced Friday that it was looking for Software Artifact Dependency Graph (ADG) Generation capabilities to understand risks within the software that power cyber and physical infrastructure.
The solicitation... Read More »
On Thursday, Smiths Detection, a business within Smiths Group, announced it was accelerating its partnership with AI-based threat detection software provider, SeeTrue.
Smiths Detection said it had successfully integrated and tested SeeTrue’s technology into its advanced CT security checkpoint... Read More »
On Friday, the U.S. Air Force announced it had reached a price agreement with Boeing for the E-7A Wedgetail weapon system rapid prototype program.
At a total contract value of $2.5 million, the agreement paves the way for the delivery of two operationally representative prototypes of the E-7A... Read More »
More than 100 public safety and military personnel participated in the 2024 “Ravens Challenge," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday.
“Ravens Challenge” is the world’s largest annual training exercise for public safety bomb squads and military explosive ordnance disposal teams. The... Read More »
On Monday, Lockheed Martin announced the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had awarded it a $4.6 million contract to develop Artificial Intelligence tools for dynamic, airborne missions.
Part of DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program, the 18-month... Read More »
More than 1,000 law enforcement officers from local, state, federal and international organizations attended the National Cyber Crime Conference this April, making use of the opportunity to expand their knowledge and tools for dealing with cyber incidents.
While the event has been ongoing since... Read More »
The second phase of work on Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s (ESG) Nelson Street government shipbuilding facility got underway in Florida this month, promising major infrastructure improvements to build up its abilities to construct and deliver ships.
Meant to shore up the Department of... Read More »
The Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), which is only two years old, announced a shakeup in membership this week, as four current members departed and were replaced by others.
The Board was created in February 2022, following President Joe Biden's direction to improve U.S. cybersecurity. It is... Read More »
Thanks to work by Raytheon, an advanced new ground system for space-based missile warning recently deployed at the U.S. Space Force's Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center (OBAC).
Raytheon – an RTX business – got the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission... Read More »
A Department of Defense (DoD) 2040 Task Force (D2T) challenge on talent management innovation drew in more than 200 proposals from across the Armed Services over the last year.
Launched in August 2023, the challenge sought ideas from Service members and affected civilians on how to improve... Read More »
KBR will continue to provide life support, equipment readiness, training and supply chain solutions for the United States Army Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and European Command (EUCOM) under a new $771 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract option.
The contract awarded this week will perform... Read More »
Promising to grow space for integrating and delivering on critical defense programs by more than 50 percent, the RTX company Raytheon recently broke ground on a $115 million expansion to its Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility in Alabama.
When finished, it should grow the facility by... Read More »
Lockheed Martin recently announced plans to collaborate with Intel Corporation and Altera for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s (OUSD R&E) STAMP program and its airborne electronic defense system.
STAMP, or Stimulating Transition for Advanced... Read More »
In order to provide field support, maintenance and recovery efforts for its Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACVs), the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) recently awarded a $79 million contract to BAE Systems to build and deliver test versions of an ACV Recovery variant this year.
These representative test... Read More »
Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) and HELLFIRE missiles will be sticking around in coming years, given that the United States Army recently awarded the company a $483 million follow-on-production contract.
The contract coupled with a Program Year 3 award, to get the... Read More »
In support of the Missile Defense Agency’s Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 32 (FTM-32), Northrop Grumman Corporation recently announced a successful launch of its ballistic missile target vehicle.
Such vehicles are used to represent threats during test and verification of missile defense... Read More »
Looking to build on current RNA-based COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) recently announced the Patch Forward Prize, pledging $50 million for those who can advance patch-based vaccines.
While administering vaccines is most often... Read More »
Germany seeks to augment its existing air defenses with a new round of Patriot air and missile defense systems, thanks to a $1.2 billion contract provided to RTX’s Raytheon last week.
This contract calls for the most recent Patriot Configuration 3+ radars, launchers, command and control... Read More »
The U.S. Space Force recently selected Boeing for a $439.6 million contract to build its 12th Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) communications satellite
The wideband satellites are designed to provide high-data rate tactical communications even in contesting environments and jamming efforts. At a... Read More »
