The Department of Defense’s innovation arm and acquisition office have updated DOD’s cleared list of small unmanned aircraft systems under the second iteration of the Blue sUAS project with the addition of drones from Skydio and Flightwave, bringing the number of vendors offering compliant drones to 10. The updated list now includes Skydio’s X...
A Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary has secured a $463 million U.S. Navy contract for the procurement of low-band sensor components designed for manned and unmanned aircraft. Under the five-year contract, Argon ST will provide hardware and associated engineering services for the Multi-Intelligence Sensor Development Sensor Suite, the Department of Defens...
With a heightened focus on digital modernization in recent years, the Department of Defense is reshaping its approach to procurement and working to shift the innovation paradigm as it embraces new ways forward. Among the many changes the Pentagon is undertaking — from cutting-edge technology adoption to networks, contracting and beyond — is an e...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential two-year, $84.9 million contract modification to provide four Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar systems for the U.S. Air Force. This award brings the contract’s ceiling value to $182.9 million and covers production management support, travel, data and other services, the Departmen...
Artificial intelligence is in an era of massive growth in the public sector, as evidenced by the exponentially increasing amount of AI offices, leadership and spending in recent years. As AI’s footprint continues to expand, the Department of Defense’s new office is taking up the mantle for AI innovation in the U.S. Learn more about...
The Department of Defense needs to further spur its top contractors to invest in technology innovation startups to advance the development of militarily-relevant capabilities amid power competitions with China and Russia, according to a managing director at veteran-led venture capital and growth equity firm Marlinspike Partners. In a Breaking Defens...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected in a unanimous ruling the Biden administration’s mandate that requires COVID-19 vaccination and face masks for employees working on federal contracts, Bloomberg Law reported Friday. A panel of three judges from the federal appeals court in Ohio ruled that the U.S. president lacks the statuto...
As the Department of Defense shifts its focus away from counterterrorism and toward the peer and near-peer competition, modernization and rapid technological innovation have become crucial to national security missions. Executive Mosaic spoke with DOD Chief Information Officer John Sherman in a new video interview to learn more about his thoughts ...
The Department of Defense plans to add requirements to National Security Space Launch program contracts in a move to address Chinese and Russian interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. In a briefing to potential vendors of the upcoming contracting round, DOD said the next generation of rockets designed for launching spy satellites sh...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded two multiple-award, firm-fixed-price contracts totaling $144 million for airfield-related design, construction and maintenance services. Head Inc., MRM Construction Services, the AHTNA-SWCP joint venture and Southern-RC-JV-01 will compete for airfield paving design-bid-build and design-build orders w...
