On Wednesday, the Potomac Officers Club hosted the latest installment of its JADC2 event series, which brings together leading voices from defense agencies, military branches and industry to discuss the strategies, initiatives and organizational shifts being implemented to achieve the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control g...
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...
Data analytics and management company Visionist has received a prime contract worth $190 million to help the Department of Defense manage computer network operations. Visionist said Monday it will assemble an initial group of 60 professionals and services to provide a range of technical support services to DOD through the five-year, sole-source aw...
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...
Technical and professional services provider RSC2 has acquired a TriMech Services division that offers systems engineering, modeling and simulation services to the Department of Defense. The transaction gives RSC2 access to the Army’s Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services and Joint Enterprise Research, Development, Acquisition and Procure...
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...
