Press Releases
C3 AI, the Enterprise AI software company, today announced that the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) has selected the C3 AI Application Platform to advance their digital transformation. The C3 AI Application Platform will enable next-generation AI applications to accelerate DCSA’s initial awards and ongoing maintenance of security clearances, helping to maintain a stable inventory of background investigations critical to U.S. national security.
Read more...24 March 2022
GS Yuasa Lithium Power (GYLP) announced today the successful completion of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for a new scalable small form factor battery design. With PDR complete the battery design will now move into the critical design phase. GYLP’s design integrates the recently qualified LSE12x Lithium-ion Cell developed by GS Yuasa Technology LTD (GYT) and seeks to align with smaller spacecraft, including those with high power requirements and those supporting human rat
Read more...24 March 2022
Striveworks, a leader in MLOps for highly regulated industries, announces its award of a basic ordering agreement (BOA) for The Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development (DRAID). The award, which has a $242 million ceiling across its recipients, was made by the U.S. Army Contract Command on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). The BOA is a contract vehicle established for decentralized ordering and will remain activ
Read more...The U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory has entered a cooperative R&D agreement with EyeTracking, LLC, a San Diego company that uses eye-tracking technology to objectively measure human performance. The mission of the USAARL is to preserve the health and safety of Army aviation personnel and other Warfighters while optimizing mission effectiveness. That includes developing secure ways to monitor their physiological, psychological, and performance status under operational conditions.
Read more...Emergent, LLC was awarded a five-year $419,737,159 contract on February 28, 2022 for the U.S. Department of the Air Force's Oracle Enterprise Software License Agreement ("ESLA") II. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Maxwell Air Force Base Gunter Annex, Montgomery, Alabama, is the contracting activity (FA8771-22-F-0022). The U.S. Department of the Air Force Oracle ESLA II provides an unlimited license agreement for a core set of 15 Oracle technology products as we
Read more...22 March 2022
Isotropic Systems today unveiled the GM2000 series; a new Military Specification, Multi-Link, Mobility Ka-band ground satellite terminal complete with fully integrated power and a wide array of modem options for communications-on-the-move (COTM) applications designed for NATO defense. The new terminal range provides total path resiliency and mission assurance and meets the DoD JADC2 requirements and the CS25 and CS27 requirements for the US Army. The new GM2000 range is a single, so
Read more...The European leading robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics will exhibit their THeMIS Combat Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) during DIMDEX in Qatar on March 21-23. THeMIS Combat UGVs provide direct fire support for manoeuvre forces and act as a force multiplier. With an integrated self-stabilizing remote-controlled weapon system, they provide high precision over wide areas, day and night, increasing stand-off distance, force protection and survivability for dismount
Read more...Leidos, a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, today announced it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Navy's Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) to support the service's undersea warfare systems. This single-award, Seaport Next Generation (NxG) task order has a total estimated value of $84 million. It includes a one-year base period, as well as four one-year options. Work will be performed in Virginia and Japan. "Ensuring our sailors
Read more...18 March 2022
Triumph Group announced that its Systems, Electronics and Controls business has received a five-year contract with Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) to provide repair and upgrade services to their enhanced digital electronic control (fuel) units (EDECUs). Triumph's EMC-102 EDECU units are used to support the T700 engine in the U.S. Navy's SH-60 Seahawk Helicopter. "Triumph has long partnered with the Navy directly, providing high quality, low-cost solutions with qui
Read more...NASA has awarded the Ground Systems and Mission Operations-3 (GSMO-3) contract to KBR Wyle Services LLC of Greenbelt, Maryland. The contract will provide services including systems engineering, facility engineering, launch and early orbit support, flight operations, flight dynamics support, and sustaining engineering for NASA. The total maximum ordering value of the cost-plus-award fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is $640 million. The effective ordering period i
Read more...Astranis Space Technologies First MicroGEO Satellite Completes Final Testing and Is Ready for Launch
17 March 2022
Astranis Space Technologies Corp. today announced that the first MicroGEO satellite is ready for launch after successful completion of final testing. Astranis has now completed all major tests necessary for its first MicroGEO spacecraft to be ready to ship to the launch site, including vibration and vibroacoustic tests, final solar array and antenna deployment tests, propulsion system tests, software tests, and electrical checkouts. This follows a successful thermal-vacuum, or TVAC,
Read more...Echodyne, the radar platform company, announced today that Advanced Technology Systems Company (ATSC), the prime contractor for the $191 million Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the U.S. Army’s Security Surveillance System (SSS) program of record and a leader in Force Protection Systems and Border/Maritime Surveillance Systems, has received its first order for Echodyne radars to be used under the SSS program. The IDIQ contract has a 5-year base period, with a
Read more...16 March 2022
The U.S. Army and its Army Application Laboratory (AAL) award a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to Taqtile to fulfill their Augmented Reality Maintainer-Operator Relay System (ARMORS) vision. Taqtile, a leader in augmented reality (AR) based work-instruction solutions will expand deployment of the company’s innovative Manifest® platform to address the Army’s Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) needs across multiple vehicle platforms. T
Read more...15 March 2022
Red Cat Holdings, Inc., a hardware-enabled software provider to the drone industry, announces that its subsidiary Teal Drones (Teal) has been selected by the Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and U.S. Army to compete in the Short Range Reconnaissance Tranche 2 (SRR T2) Program of Record. Teal was selected to develop a next-generation small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) designed for surveillance and reconnaissance (S&R) duties, with a focus on autono
Read more...The U.S. Space Force's Wide Field of View spacecraft arrived safely on February 2 to the launch processing facility in Florida, having shipped from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company's headquarters in El Segundo, California. This satellite was procured by the Space Systems Command to serve as testbed for Wide Field of View technologies in geosynchronous, or GEO, orbit for the missile warning mission, and as an enabling asset for the missile tracking and missile defe
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