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Cyber
DoD selects HackerOne for third Hack the Pentagon crowdsourcing contract - News
October 24, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO. Department of Defense (DoD) officials awarded a third crowdsourced security contract to HackerOne in order to help strengthen sensitive DoD assets.
Radar/EW
Lithium-ion battery solution selected for USSOCOM submersible vehicle - News
October 24, 2018
SAN DIEGO. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) officials selected General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to develop and deliver a prototype Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant (LiFT) battery system capable of powering the propulsion and support systems for manned undersea vehicles capable of transporting Special Operations Forces and payloads for a variety of missions.
A.I.
Computational model to predict human behavior developed by U.S. Army lab - News
October 23, 2018
U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY--ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) have developed for the first time an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior.
Avionics
F-16 fighter-jet fleet in Romania to get integrated maintenance, modernization package - News
October 23, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Tapestry Solutions -- a subsidiary of Boeing -- has won a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide an integrated maintenance system (IMS) for the Romanian air force?s (RoAF) fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft.
Cyber
DIA chooses nine companies to support R and D and engineering under $500 million HELIOS contract - News
October 22, 2018
WASHINGTON. The U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agency (DIA) has awarded positions to nine companies on a contract that will provide technical research and development (R&D), intelligence, strategic warning, and other operational tasks.
Cyber
Applied Insight acquires IT Firm Organizational Strategies Inc. - News
October 22, 2018
WASHINGTON. IT firm Organizational Strategies Inc. (OSI) has been acquired by Applied Insight (AI), a company that focuses on solving complex technology challenges for federal government customers and is also backed by The Acacia Group.
Avionics
U.S. Central Command to use GDMS software for tracking capabilities - News
October 22, 2018
SAN DIEGO. U.S. Army officials selected Boeing's subsidiary Tapestry Solutions to deliver In-Transit Visibility (ITV) for ground transportation logistics in the U.S. Central Command?s (CENTCOM) area of operations.
Radar/EW
U.S. Navy contracts for portable camouflaging technology for vehicles - News
October 19, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. Machine-learning engineering company Decisive Analytics Corporation (DAC) has won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop what DAC calls the Computer Learning Obfuscating Adversarial Kit (CLOAK) system, a portable camouflaging kit for vehicles that uses state-of-the-art adversarial imagery though physical-world manipulation and data synthesis.
Unmanned
UUVs used by U.S. Navy to get development and support from Alion Science and Technology - News
October 19, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Alion Science and Technology has won a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, Rhode Island) to develop, build, and support the U.S. Navy unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) Family of Systems (FoS). The value of the contract, including all option years, is $794 million.
Cyber
U.S. Coast Guard cutters will get encrypted automatic ID systems - News
October 18, 2018
WILSONVILLE, Ore. FLIR Systems, Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in support of the U.S. Coast Guard?s (USCG) Second Generation Automatic Identification System (AIS-2) program; the indefinite-delivery/indefinite/quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a ceiling value of $9.9 million to provide second-generation automatic identification system (AIS) transponders, associated peripherals, and spare parts for nearly 1,774 boats and 282 cutters in the USCG?s active fleet.
Cyber
Live-training systems for U.S. Army to get $465 million General Dynamics refresh and upgrade - News
October 18, 2018
FAIRFAX, Va. General Dynamics and the U.S. Army Life Cycle Product Line Management (LCPM) Program have agreed on a contract worth $465 million for General Dynamics to provide enhanced life cycle management, including technology refresh and upgrades of live-training systems, within the U.S. Army Live Training Transformation Product Line.
Avionics
Avionics displays for Navy F/A-18s obtain additional support and sustainment contract - News
October 18, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Rockwell Collins and the U.S. Navy Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) have renewed an agreement to continue support on avionics displays for the Navy?s F/A-18 fleet of over 1,200 aircraft; the newest pact is a four-year extension of a performance-based logistics (PBL) contract that was signed more than 15 years ago.
Comms
Army Futures Command technology curation contract won by Alion - News
October 18, 2018
MCLEAN, Va. Officials at the U.S. Army Contracting Command selected Alion Science and Technology for a $49.8 million Army Futures Command (AFC) contract to support the development of new Army concepts, capabilities, and systems using emerging technologies.
Cyber
BISim to demo cloud-enabled, virtual training capabilities for the U.S. Army - News
October 18, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. U.S. Army officials tasked Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) to demonstrate technologies for a cloud-enabled, virtual world training capability under an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) extension to meet the requirements of the Army?s revolutionary Synthetic Training Environment (STE) initiative.
Comms
Licensing agreement incorporates Kratos-developed CDL waveforms into Harris nanoSVDL radios - News
October 18, 2018
SAN DIEGO. Kratos RT Logic -- a Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. subsidiary -- officials licensed its Common Data Link (CDL) waveforms to Harris Corp. for use in Harris? nanoSVDL radios.
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TEWS Technologies releases VNX+ carrier board for use with QMC modules
March 06, 2026
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Uncrewed communications tech market to reach $4 billion by 2030, study says
March 05, 2026
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Uncrewed aircraft system tested in Arctic NATO exercise by Shield AI
March 04, 2026
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Directed energy and space manufacturing expansion planned in New Mexico by AeroVironment
March 04, 2026
Radar/EW
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Modern Defense Systems Require Durable Field Test Solutions with Laboratory Precision
March 02, 2026
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SRC wins contract under Missile Defense Agency SHIELD program
March 02, 2026
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Hypersonic weapon garners Castelion $50 million U.S. Navy contract
February 27, 2026
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Senseeker Machining Company Acquires Axis Machine
February 11, 2026
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COTS edge AI accelerators – an enabler for military autonomous systems in all domains, including space
March 03, 2026
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Mission autonomy software from Shield AI to support U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft program
February 13, 2026
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AI assurance the aim of new DARPA program
February 11, 2026
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Sovereign AI center to be established for naval defense systems in France by Naval Group, Thales
February 11, 2026
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IT infrastructure award announced by U.S. Air Force
February 12, 2026
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Cybersecurity certification level 2 announced by Spectra Defense Technologies
January 20, 2026
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Network-modernization contract for U.S. Space Force won by CACI International
January 05, 2026
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Air Force installation to begin M2M comms across systems, infrastructure
December 02, 2025