During a recent GEOINT Symposium on June 4th, BG Matthew Easley, director of the U.S. Army Artificial Intelligence Task Force within the Army Futures Command, said that the service is looking to geospatial intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can “cast the fog of war” on adversaries.

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State and county officials in Maryland and representatives from the First Responder Network Authority and AT&T have organized an event to mark the state’s first anniversary of subscribing to the FirstNet platform. AT&T said Thursday the event recalls Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s approval of the adoption of the FirstNet network platform in the state in […] More

  The U.S. Air Force has begun to accept bids for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers air support services for joint terminal attack controller training. USAF said in a solicitation notice posted Friday it seeks providers of “realistic” adversary air threats necessary for the military branch to conduct up to 30K sorties a year within the continental U.S., Alaska and […] More

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command is seeking proposals for the development of a hard-kill self-protection countermeasure system that would protect large aircraft like transports and tankers in the event of open conflict, The Drive reported Wednesday. The proposed aircraft self-defense mechanism should be capable of defeating up to 10 incoming missiles. NAVAIR’s interest in building […] More

Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, addressed a crowd of approximately 200 attendees during the company’s 20th anniversary celebration on Jan. 20 at Fort Myer in Virginia. Niggel discussed ACT I’s efforts to deliver total acquisition management and foreign military sales platforms and services to government clients across defense, health care and homeland […] More

IvySys Technologies has received a potential $4.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help create mathematical and computational strategies that can model adversarial activity. The DARPA Information Innovation Office’s four-year MAA program will use the new approaches in a push to acquire, deploy, […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to suggest research concepts for techniques and software tools to neutralize cyberadversary infrastructure. DARPA said in a presolicitation notice posted Aug. 3 on FedBizOpps it seeks to create technologies to determine malicious cyberadversary infiltrated networks as part of the agency’s Harnessing Autonomy for Countering Cyberadversary Systems program. The HACCS effort […] More

Systems Planning and Analysis on Friday marked its 45th anniversary in business in support of U.S. national security and defense sectors. Dr. William Vantine, SPA president and CEO, said in a statement released Friday, the company worked to establish itself as an adviser in support of clients’ missions through the leadership of Phillip Lantz who was […] More

Versar has been awarded a potential three-year, $6.2 million task order by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform in-situ thermal remediation services at the Diaz Chemical Corp. Operable Unit 2 Superfund Site in Holley, New York. USACE issued a notice to proceed for the base and optional tasks amounting to $5.3 million under the order, Versar said Wednesday. The company will work […] More

A joint venture of Versar and Johnson Controls‘ federal systems subsidiary has received a $15.5 million contract to repair and renovate the three-story Building 1108 at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. Versar said Wednesday its engineering construction management group will perform  design, permitting, renovation and construction services under the contract. Work also includes commissioning of an administrative building that will […] More

Versar has received a $14.8 million task order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Middle to support oversight of military construction projects in Afghanistan. Springfield, Virginia-based Versar said Wednesday it will continue to assist Afghan engineering and technical staff as well as collaborate with USACE personnel who manage projects across the country. The order falls under a previously […] More

GovPlanet, IronPlanet’s online marketplace for used government equipment, has completed its second year of work to provide equipment to federal, state and municipal clients. The marketplace also launched an expanded platform designed to extend its offerings to customers in Europe as GovPlanet enters its third year, GovPlanet said Monday. “Our growth both geographically and through our product offerings […] More