The U.S. Army has awarded five companies positions on a potential five-year, $99 million contract to provide analytical services to support the assessment of surface, air, electromagnetic spectrum, directed energy, cyber, space and other non-nuclear munitions. Army Contracting Command received six offers for the multiple-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee c...
After a rebrand and the delivery of a minimum viable capability in 2023, the Department of Defense’s multi-billion-dollar effort to connect the U.S. military’s sensors to shooters in a unified environment is getting closer to becoming a reality. The Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, is now known as CJADC2, with the new ‘C’ bei...
SpaceX has developed into a major contractor supporting U.S. military and intelligence agencies, demonstrating the need of national security organizations for commercial partners that could quickly develop and launch classified satellites. The Elon Musk-founded rocket company received a potential $1.8 billion classified contract from the U.S. govern...
The Potomac Officers Club’s symposium on all things space domain is fast-approaching: the 5th Annual Space Summit will be held on March 5 at the Hilton-McLean in Virginia. At the event, the U.S. government’s most formidable space agency leaders will give the audience exclusive insight into where their priorities lie for the year ahead, which tr...
David McKeown, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and senior information security officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD has published a strategy, a reference architecture and an implementation plan to achieve a zero trust-based architecture by 2027, DefenseScoop reported Thursday. “We want to achieve targeted zero trust by...
New Directions Technologies has won a potential five-year, $111.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide test, system and transition engineering support services. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division launched a competitive procurement process through a small business set-aside program and received three offers for the cost-plus-fixe...
We’re back to give you a front row seat to the new developments in the Wash100 Award’s yearly popular vote contest. Strap in — as always, this week was full of surprising upsets, thrilling shake-ups and new entrants to the race. If you’re not familiar with the Wash100 Award, it is the highest honor in government...
BAE Systems has secured the regulatory clearances needed to acquire Ball’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business and is set to implement measures to close the transaction in the coming days. In August, BAE agreed to buy Ball Aerospace for approximately $5.55 billion as part of the British defense contractor’s efforts to accelerate its space market str...
The advent of easy-to-use tools like ChatGPT has entrenched generative artificial intelligence into the public consciousness. With its vast array of potential applications, generative AI holds immense potential for a wide variety of domains. Like many other organizations, the Department of Defense is evaluating the effectiveness of this technology ...
BlueHalo has agreed to buy Eqlipse Technologies for an undisclosed sum to create a combined entity focused on delivering capabilities in the areas of space, counter-unmanned autonomous systems, cyber and electronic warfare and artificial intelligence to Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. Both parties expect the transaction t...
