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Anduril Industries and Australia’s defense force have agreed to partner on a three-year, $100 million program to design, build and manufacture extra large autonomous undersea vehicles for the Australian navy. Anduril said Wednesday it will use its Agile development approach to develop and deliver three XL-AUV prototypes to the Royal Australian navy. XL-AUV will be […] More
A new study has found that 91 percent of federal cybersecurity leaders say the cybersecurity executive order signed in 2021 has made U.S. critical infrastructure and data safer. MeriTalk said Thursday it surveyed more than 150 federal cyber decision-makers in March for the Impact Assessment: Cyber EO Year One report and found that 82 percent […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed the production of the first AN/TPY-4 radar, a multimission system that can detect existing and emerging threats and operate in contested radio frequency environments. TPY-4 is a software-defined radar system that is available in transportable and fixed variants and complies with open software, hardware and interface standards to facilitate integration, Lockheed […] More
The Department of Defense and its Detroit-based manufacturing innovation institute LIFT have awarded a Hypersonics Challenge project to Raytheon Technologies. Raytheon will study how modeling and simulation could help accelerate the development of high-temperature materials for hypersonic systems, LIFT said Wednesday. Andreas Roelofs, vice president of research at Raytheon and director of the Raytheon Technologies […] More
American Systems and U.S. Navy engineers have developed a system designed to aid helicopter pilots during degraded visual environment landings. The company said Tuesday the Low-Speed Precision Control system is a hardware and software platform that works to reduce pilot workload during approaches into DVE conditions such as brownouts. During a demonstration at the Naval […] More
Mattermost has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract through the AFWERX program to further develop mission-specific capabilities of a collaboration platform for the U.S. Air Force. The company’s self-hosted, open source collaboration platform enables government agencies to better coordinate team members, mission-critical processes and tools in support of the Advanced Battle Management […] More
In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has made an investment in Sandbox AQ to help the latter build encryption software that could resist the possibility of being decrypted by quantum computers and sensors, Bloomberg reported Monday. Bloomberg quoted Steve Bowsher, president of IQT, as saying the investor wants to help bring Sandbox’s product to […] More
CACI International has improved its cloud-based dark web analytics technology by partnering with several crypto analytics companies to provide analysts with additional access to cryptocurrency data and streamline investigations of crypto transactions. The DarkBlue Intelligence Suite is an unclassified, software-as-a-service data and analytics technology developed by Bluestone Analytics that CACI acquired in 2021, CACI said […] More
A Sierra Nevada subsidiary is close to completing the first Dream Chaser spaceplane being built at a facility in Colorado, SpaceNews reported Friday. Sierra Space has yet to install thermal protection systems and other components into the vehicle, dubbed Tenacity. Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice said the spaceplane’s structural testing is already completed and the […] More
The U.S. Army is soliciting proposals for a potential five-year, $88 million contract to provide design and engineering support services for Group I unmanned aircraft systems. The service branch plans to compete the Soldier UAS Design and Engineering Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as a small business set-aside program, according to a solicitation published Friday. Group I […] More
Lumen Technologies will help the state of New Jersey move to a next-generation 911 platform under a seven-year contract to improve the delivery of emergency calls for the state’s 8.9 million residents. The company said Thursday the Lumen NG911 platform is supported by a carrier-class, tier 1 network that connects network management services, emergency call […] More
Boeing has introduced a digitally designed trainer jet that is set for delivery to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it developed and tested the T-7A Red Hawk aircraft using digital engineering, agile software development and advanced manufacturing. The trainer jet, which comes with open architecture software to accommodate future mission requirements, features […] More
