A unit within General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has secured a potential five-year, $108.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information assurance and reliability monitoring system software builds for the service branch’s submarines. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded to Progeny Systems has a one-year base p...
President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act that seeks to authorize $886 billion in military spending for fiscal year 2024, Reuters reported. The Senate voted 87-13 to pass the FY 2024 NDAA, which cleared the House in a 310-118 vote. The NDAA reflects a 3 percent hike in the...
Today, the digital environment plays a key role in the success of defense missions, making it more important than ever that forces located in remote environments – also referred to as the tactical edge – are able to stay connected to critical Department of Defense networks and systems. At the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads a...
Core Government Services has won a potential five-year, $610 million contract from the U.S. Army for mission support services for the military branch’s training support center. Army Contracting Command is the contracting activity and received 16 offers for the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The service will de...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received an approximately $121.5 million performance-based-logistics requirements contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for B-1 Bomber AN/APQ-164 offensive radar low observable antennas. Requirements will be delivered to the U.S. Air Force through Dec. 31, 2028, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The firm...
Geopolitical tensions and developments are shaping the defense technology landscape, and the Pentagon is adapting its priorities to meet emerging and increasingly urgent warfighter needs. As adversarial activity rises, United States defense officials are focusing on these five areas, among others, to advance the country’s technological capabilitie...
Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said the Department of Defense seeking to advance adoption of trusted artificial intelligence tools needs to have a proper data management platform to better coordinate and facilitate sharing of data in motion between DOD leaders and warfighters. In an opinion piece published Tuesday in C4ISRNET...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued an eight-year broad agency announcement seeking potential industry sources that could support research in space and environmental impacts technologies. The Space Environment Technologies and Science BAA is interested in capabilities that could help quantify the impact of the space environment on Departmen...
TRAX International has won a potential five-year, $692.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide testing support services for the military branch. Army Contracting Command conducted an online solicitation and received three bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. The company will help the service bran...
In May 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order calling on federal agencies to improve their cybersecurity posture. Zero trust, an approach to cybersecurity that relies on continuous authentication, is a core part of the order, and since it was released, public sector organizations have made strides in moving toward full zero trust imple...
