Lockheed Martin's rotary and mission systems business has been awarded a $49.5 million contract to maintain the software of H-60 multimission helicopters currently in service with the U.S. Navy and six international countries. Australia, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Greece and Norway are the foreign customers under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from Naval Air Systems Command. More

A new SolarWinds survey has found that 60 percent of public sector information technology decision-makers said they consider foreign governments as the top source of security threats to their organizations, while 58 percent and 52 percent of respondents cited untrained insiders and the general hacking community as primary threat sources, respectively. The software company said […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Israel-based BIRD Aerosystems have agreed to offer airborne missile protection systems to the U.S. Department of Defense, foreign military sales customers and other international commercial clients. BIRD’s family of AMPS platforms complies with the Army’s Modular Open System Approach and works to protect warfighters and aircraft from radar-guided missiles and other […] More

AeroVironment will produce and supply Switchblade 300 tactical missile systems to the U.S. Army under a $64.6 million contract. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama will oversee the contract in support of the service branch’s tactical aviation and ground munitions office and expects delivery of the systems by July 2024, the company said […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking proposals for a range of services for a unit under the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications – Tactical. DISA said in a solicitation published Thursday on SAM.gov it is looking for a contractor that will support PEO C3T’s Project Manager Mission Command via the PM […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $49.6 million contract to manufacture and deliver high-subsonic, recoverable aerial target systems to the service branch and the governments of Canada and Australia. For the full rate production Lot 4 work, Kratos will provide 55 units of the BQM-177A target including 55 rocket-assisted takeoff attachment kits, […] More

Raytheon Technologies has secured a $30.1 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver hardware upgrades to the Patriot air and missile defense system and provide the latest version of the Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems to South Korea.  Army Contracting Command received one bid for the fixed-price incentive contract via the internet and obligated contract […] More

The U.S. arm of U.K.-based Reaction Engines completed testing of its thermal management platform designed to power engines for high-Mach flight at its Colorado site as part of the Foreign Comparative Testing campaign that was first announced in July. The company said Monday it demonstrated its engine precooler heat exchanger in partnership with the Department […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting proposals for a program that seeks to develop artificial intelligence agents and modeling and simulation approaches for multiship, beyond visual range defensive and offensive air combat missions. The AI Reinforcements program intends to advance tactical autonomy capabilities that could work with sensors, electronic warfare and other […] More

The U.S. Army is soliciting industry input for a contract it is planning to procure a range of logistics support for the Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems. In a request for information notice on SAM.gov, the service branch said it is considering small businesses and other-than-small businesses to perform post-production sustainment logistics under the […] More

Iridium Communications has named three new service providers to deliver the Certus global satellite broadband connection service to U.S. government customers. The McLean, Virginia-headquartered company said Wednesday MetOcean Telematics, NAL Research and Trace Systems are now authorized to distribute mobile communications services, such as voice, data and live-action video, through the L-band broadband network. “With […] More

Some of the biggest impediments to the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies across the Department of Defense are lack of trust in the technologies and resistance to them amongst the general public. According to William Streilein, chief technology officer at the Chief Digital and AI Office, these lingering doubts can be dissuaded through training and informational […] More