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A collaboration of several key technology companies recently showcased how commercial off-the-shelf technologies can be combined with AI to make detecting and tracking unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) more accessible.
The collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Verizon, NVIDIA, Keysight... Read More »
Defense company Northrop Grumman announced it had entered into an agreement to accelerate its production and delivery of critical munitions technologies.
The company said it has signed two multi-year agreements with the U.S. Department of War and Lockheed Martin for more than $3 billion that... Read More »
The U.S. government recently awarded global defense technology company Lockheed Martin a seven-year undefinitized contract action modification for up to $53.86 billion for PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors.
The original $4.7 billion contract was awarded in April for year one.... Read More »
Philadelphia-based Exyn Defense, a branch of Exyn Technologies, Inc., announced it would be expanding its autonomy focus beyond operational battlefield missions to encompass defense sustainment and readiness.
Exyn, a leader in autonomous mapping and perception-drive navigation for complex... Read More »
Oracle has been awarded a 10-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract under the U.S. Department of War's Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI), with a base value of $3.31 billion over the first five years and a total potential value of $6.99 billion if all option years are... Read More »
The U.S. Navy recently awarded defense solutions company Raytheon with a $1.8 billion contract extension for SPY-6 radars.
With options, the contract has a cumulative value of $3.3 billion. It builds on a hardware production and sustainment contract awarded in March 2022.
"This contract extension... Read More »
DARPA recently joined the U.S. Air Force to do in-air testing of an F-16 fighter jet using an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to autonomously control its flight.
The milestone advances the technological infrastructure that will enable rapid, scalable combat AI development across the joint... Read More »
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $2.2 billion contract to TOTE Services LLC for vessel construction management (VCM) of the new Medium Landing Ships.
The contract will allow TOTE Services to oversee the acquisition of the new LSM, and will maximize commercial practices to accelerate delivery,... Read More »
The Space Development Agency announced the awarding of two agreements worth $1.75 billion for additional space vehicles in the missile warning, missile tracking and missile defense sector.
As support for the U.S. Space Force Program Acquisition Executive for Missile Warning and Tracking, the... Read More »
Lockheed Martin announced it has been awarded a contract modification to extend the life of the Trident II missile.
The $850 million awards would extend the life of the missile that serves as a critical piece in the nation’s nuclear triad. The U.S. Department of War announced the contract in... Read More »
Laser company nLIGHT, Inc. announced it had been selected for a Joint Laser Weapon System Other Transaction Authority agreement recently to support the U.S. Department of War’s next-generation cruise missile defense architecture.
The contract, which has an initial award value of $44 million,... Read More »
Virginia-based defense company Northrop Grumman and Mississippi-based Camgian, a software development company, recently entered into a strategic collaboration to advance Camgian’s innovative artificial intelligence platform.
The Reactor AI platform will be used to enhance command and fire... Read More »
Maryland-based Lockheed Martin, a defense technology company, recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Massachusetts-based Ultra Maritime, a global defense company, for $3.45 billion.
Ultra Maritime specializes in advanced undersea warfare and anti-submarine warfare... Read More »
The U.S. government recently awarded defense technology company Lockheed Martin with a seven-year undefinitized contract action for up to $35 billion to quadruple production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors.
THAAD is the only U.S. system designed to intercept threats... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently awarded Virginia-based defense company Northrop Grumman a five-year contract to produce the M1147 Advanced Multi-Purpose (AMP) round of large caliber tank ammunition.
The M1147 AMP is a 120mm round designated for use on the U.S. Army’s M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank. The... Read More »
The Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) recently provided Energy Fuels, a Denver-based critical mineral company, with a $725 million conditional loan commitment to scale the domestic processing of rare earth elements.
The loan, along with private investment, will support a new, state-of-the-art,... Read More »
The U.S. Space Force recently awarded global defense technology company Lockheed Martin a $514 million contract to build Global Positioning System IIIF Space Vehicles 23 and 24. This brings the company’s total GPS IIIF commitment to 14 spacecraft.
“Modernizing the constellation with highly... Read More »
The federal government recently awarded Texas-based science, technology and engineering company KBR’s Mission Technology Solutions business a $95 million digital engineering and enterprise decision support contract to rapidly advance digital engineering capabilities for the U.S. Space... Read More »
Exercise Southern Jackaroo 2026, a multi-national training exercise, launched on May 29 and continues through July 3.
It began with an opening ceremony and brings together forces from the United States military, the Australia Defence Force and the Japan Self Defense Force.
The exercise uses... Read More »
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded the Mission Technology Solutions business of Houston-based KBR, a science, technology and engineering solutions company, a $8 billion maximum Antarctic science and engineering support contract.
The task order hybrid contract will have... Read More »
In a recent bulletin, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined its partner organizations to alert users of malicious cyber activity targeting U.S.-based automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems.
In partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National... Read More »
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have developed a research and development program to catalyze breakthroughs in artificial intelligence for national security. The agencies worked in close collaboration with the Center for AI Standards... Read More »
U.S. shipbuilder Davie Defense broke ground recently on the modernization of Gulf Copper shipbuilding facilities in Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas.
The move marks the return of complex shipbuilding in Texas for the first time in decades, officials said, and is a step toward Davie Defense’s... Read More »
The 2026 Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) was held in San Antonio on May 18 to 21. The annual exercise focuses on disaster response preparedness for search and rescue organizations and helps improve interagency coordination between state and federal partners.
This year, there were more than... Read More »
CrowdStrike announced last month it was expanding its work on Project QuiltWorks, an industry framework that would protect cyber insurance companies from financial exposure due to frontier AI risk.
The company said leaders from the cyber insurance industry - Coalition, Liberty Mutual Insurance,... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded Texas-based Dell Federal Systems, a company that deploys technologies that meet strict government requirements, a five-year, approximately $9.7 billion Microsoft Department of War Enterprise Software Agreement (ESA) II Core Enterprise Technology... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded defense solutions company Raytheon, in collaboration with Northrop Grumman, a phase two Burn n' Go program contracts for the continued development of a new solid rocket motor design.
Raytheon is prime on the contract and has... Read More »
Defense technology company Lockheed Martin recently broke ground on a new munitions production center at its facility in Troy, Ala., that will support Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors and future work with Next Generation Interceptor.
The center, Building 47, will add... Read More »
Eight of America’s leading communications companies announced the establishment of a cybersecurity non-profit.
The Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, also known as C2 ISAC, is a collaboration of AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile,... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) modernized its financial management systems, but the department’s cost and schedule estimates weren’t always reliable, a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found, and its guidance and plans weren’t consistent.
GAO added DHS to the... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently awarded Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV), a defense technology company, a prototype agreement for the rapid development, delivery and testing of the Switchblade 400 loitering munition.
Switchblade 400, a medium-range, man-portable, anti-armor loitering munition, is a key... Read More »
The Army Contracting Command recently awarded Texas-based KBR, a science, technology and engineering solutions company, two up to $449 million task order modifications to continue providing intelligent, data-driven logistics support to the U.S. Army in Europe and North America.
The contract was... Read More »
Project QuiltWorks, a tech industry coalition, recently launched to assess, prioritize and continuously remediate production code vulnerabilities that frontier artificial intelligence models are uncovering.
Project QuiltWorks uses the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with remediation input from... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre and other federal and international partners to release a new cybersecurity advisory about China.
The advisory, “Defending Against China-Nexus Covert Networks of... Read More »
L3Harris Technologies, a Florida-based defense technology company, recently closed on a $1 billion Department of Defense investment in the company’s Missile Solutions (MSL) business.
The company is in the process of transforming and growing its MSL production operations and will use funding to... Read More »
