Michael Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense should work with industry and academia to address the increasing challenges posed by cyber and asymmetric warfare. Brown wrote in a guest piece published Saturday on TechCrunch that DOD is advancing a technology modernization agenda...
The Department of Defense has approved a strategy to help facilitate the “delivery of resilient software capability at the speed of relevance.” DOD’s Software Modernization Strategy has three goals and the first one seeks to accelerate the department’s enterprise cloud environment, the department said Friday. Objectives under the first goal ...
John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer with oversight of DOD’s strategy and policy development efforts for data, AI and analytics. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote in a Tuesday memo that the office of ...
A National Defense Industrial Association report says the readiness and health of the defense industrial base received an “unsatisfactory” score of 69 as the industry struggles to address the ongoing challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The demand for defense goods and services and industry competition for defense contracts were cited as a...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has demonstrated 5G network capabilities for the U.S. Navy as part of a 5G-based warehouse project backed by the Department of Defense. The company said Tuesday its 5G network showed data throughput speeds of more than 4 gigabits per second and latency of less than 10 milliseconds on commodity mobile devices at...
The Defense Innovation Unit awarded 72 prototype other transaction contracts to commercial companies and transitioned eight commercial platforms to Department of Defense end-users in fiscal year 2021, bringing DIU’s cumulative transition rate to 41 percent. The number of awarded prototype OT contracts reflects a 31 percent rise from FY 2020, accor...
The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded Scale AI a $249 million blanket purchase agreement to develop platforms for testing machine learning, deep learning and neural network architectures. Scale AI said Monday it will make the company’s technology available to federal clients as JAIC’s governme...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and a Global Ordnance division will compete for orders under a potential $750 million contract to supply special ammunition and weapons systems to the U.S. Army. The service branch’s procurement organization received 10 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online solicitation, the Department of Defense...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a five-year, $171 million contract to provide application and evaluation support for the U.S. Army’s biomedical research programs. The Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity received three bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract via an online sol...
A joint venture between construction firms Gilbane and Exyte has won a three-year, $278.6 million contract to build an advanced compound semiconductor laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. The JV will also construct a facility for microsystem integration activities as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of...
