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    4 Companies Support DARPA’s Digital Radar Image Formation Tech Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with Umbra, Terran Orbital, Northrop Grumman and Jacobs for an experiment that seeks to leverage synthetic aperture radar satellites to advance warfare capabilities, Breaking Defense reported Friday. DARPA launched the Digital Radar Image Formation Technology program in 2022 to expand the use of commercial SAR satellites in military missions and to […] More

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    Military Veterans John Murray, Timothy White Join Virtualitics’ Federal Advisory Board

    Virtualitics has added to its federal advisory board John Murray, a retired U.S. Army general, and Timothy White, former Navy vice admiral. The analytics services provider said Thursday the appointments are in line with Virtualitics’ growing engagement with defense and intelligence customers. As board members, Murray will focus on expediting the delivery of technologies to warfighters […] More

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    General Atomics Backs Demo of Army’s Modernized Gray Eagle Drones

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business is showcasing the U.S. Army’s two Gray Eagle Extended Range unmanned aircraft systems that were modified to incorporate multi-domain operation capabilities. The demonstration, which began in March, is part of the service branch’s current efforts to enhance the GE-ER platform with MDO features, General Atomics said Tuesday. MDO capabilities such as […] More

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    11 More Projects to Receive Funding From DOD’s Tech Procurement Pilot Initiative; Heidi Shyu Quoted

    The Department of Defense has unveiled the second group of projects selected to receive funding from the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies pilot program. DOD said Monday Congress approved a total of $150 million in funding for 11 projects for APFIT’s fiscal year 2023. Established through fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, […] More

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    BAE Unit Secures 2023 Small Business Administration Award; Terry Ward Quoted

    An office within BAE Systems’ intelligence and security sector has won the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence from the Small Business Administration in recognition of its outreach and training efforts enabling small businesses to operate as subcontractors and suppliers. SBA handed the award during the 2023 National Small Business Week Awards held in Washington D.C. […] More

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    KBR Books Army Task Order for Expanded Base Ops Support in Indo-Pacific; Byron Bright Quoted

    KBR has secured a $24 million task order from the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command to expand its services in support of base operations in the Indo-Pacific region. The engineering and professional services company said Tuesday it will provide infrastructure services at the Kyogamisaki and Shariki communication sites in Japan in the next five […] More

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    DIU, Army Name 3 More Participants in Ground Vehicle Autonomy Prototyping Competition

    The Defense Innovation Unit has selected three additional companies to build and test unmanned ground vehicle navigation software prototypes for the U.S. Army. Neya Systems, Robotic Research Autonomous Industries and Scale AI were chosen for the development of the Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways project, DIU said Monday. They join Applied Intuition Inc. and Kodiak Robotics, which were tapped in December 2022 […] More

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    Juvare Gets FedRAMP High Accreditation for Incident Management Platform

    Juvare has received the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s High authority-to-operate designation for a technology offering designed to help organizations prepare for and respond to critical situations. The Veterans Health Administration acted as an agency sponsor during the accreditation process for Juvare Federal Cloud, an incident response and emergency management platform, the company said […] More

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    General Atomics, Navy Conduct Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercises via Manned, Unmanned Aircraft Teaming

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business and four U.S. Navy Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadrons teamed up to demonstrate anti-submarine warfare and manned-unmanned teaming capabilities at the Integrated Battle Problem 2023 event. GA-ASI said Thursday it operated MQ-9B SeaGuardian unmanned aircraft systems while the HSMs deployed MH-60R Seahawk helicopters from the Naval Air Station North Island off […] More

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    USAID Taps Tetra Tech to Create Data Analytics Platform

    Tetra Tech has booked a five-year, $48 million contract from the Ethiopia Mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development to develop a learning platform that leverages predictive analytics to examine data. The consulting and engineering services firm said Thursday the resulting analytics will be used to support the USAID and the agency’s stakeholders in their […] More

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    AFRL Posts Solicitation for Mission Autonomy for Air & Space Systems Initiative

    The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting proposals for an initiative focused on developing technologies and strategies to enable autonomous air and space missions. According to a broad agency announcement posted Tuesday on SAM.gov, the potential approaches under the Mission Autonomy for Air and Space Systems program should be able to support the military’s autonomous sensing […] More

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    Rolls-Royce Books $67M Navy IDIQ for Maintenance of LCS Engines

    Rolls-Royce has received a $66.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to sustain a critical component of the U.S. Navy’s Freedom-class littoral combat ships. The company’s Marine North America business will specifically provide engineering and technical support for the MT30 gas turbine engines of the naval fleet, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Contract work will be determined and defined […] More