BAE Systems has secured a six-year, $48.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to enhance a company-built system used to support real-world operations via analytics, open systems frameworks and enhanced capabilities. The research and development effort for the BAE Systems Insight System aligns with the Insight Integration initiative, the Department of Defense said Monday.

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The U.S. Air Force awarded Applied Research Solutions a $48.75 million contract to study and develop closed-loop sensing, reasoning and data processing technologies for military missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will cover multiple defense domains and is scheduled for completion by April 2, 2029.

On Jan. 31, the Potomac Officers Club will host industry leaders, experts and government decision makers in the defense sector to put their heads together about the latest military technologies. POC's 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit is open for registration.

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The U.S. Air Force used predictive maintenance applications enabled by artificial intelligence and data analytics to lower maintenance costs and ensure mission readiness, wrote Liz Martin, Department of Defense director at Amazon Web Services. In an article published Thursday, Martin explained the Predictive Analytics and Decision Assistant, co-developed by the Air Force and C3 AI and launched in AWS GovCloud.

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HII has secured a $100 million cost-reimbursable modification to its contract with the U.S. Navy for the construction of the future USS Enterprise nuclear aircraft carrier. The Department of Defense said Thursday the company will establish a Nuclear Enterprise Workforce Special Incentive to facilitate the government's strategic co-investments in recruiting, training and retaining personnel involved in nuclear ship construction and repair activities.

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DZYNE Technologies has secured a seven-year, $49 million contract through the Small Business Innovation Research program to conduct research and development on advanced unmanned aerial systems for the U.S. Air Force. R&D efforts will include improving flight performance, sensor capabilities and flight endurance of long endurance UAS, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

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EmeSec, a cyber risk management company, will perform cyber-related services at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas; and Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. The U.S. Air Force awarded an approximately $83 million task order to the Reston, Virginia-based contractor under the General Services Administration's Veterans Technology Services 2 governmentwide acquisition contract for Defensive Cyber Realization, Integration and Operational Support II services.

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Aleut Information Technology will provide the U.S. Air Force with enterprise and local operations support for the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System under a four-year, $69.3 million contract. Services to modernize IT infrastructure include operations, engineering and architecting support, associated software/hardware acquisition as well as asset management support.

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System High, a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, will provide integrated security support services to the Department of the Air Force under a subcontract from General Dynamics' information technology business unit. The company said Monday it will help the DAF secure mission-critical activities related to national security as part of the $4.5 billion Air Force Security Support Services multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract issued in February 2021.

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Aeyon has booked a contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing with financial management, logistics, internal controls and digital transformation services. Work under the award is expected to drive the efficient allocation and distribution of critical resources and improve the unit’s communication, information sharing and decision making processes, Aeyon shared with ExecutiveBiz in an email sent Friday.

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The Department of the Air Force and the Defense Innovation Unit have partnered to deploy electric vehicle charging as a service solutions. According to DIU, the joint EV CaaS project operationalizes DAF's Climate Action Plan as well as Executive Orders 14008 and 14057. The CaaS solutions deployment will be at six U.S. Air Force installations.

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The Department of the Air Force has sent Congress a letter certifying that the communication service to be provided by the upcoming Wideband Global Satcom 12 satellite cannot be achieved by commercial alternatives, according to a statement by the Space Systems Command. The issuance of the letter is in compliance with a requirement within the House of Representatives' version of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which threatens to block the acquisition of WGS-12 should the DAF fail to certify the insufficiency of commercial services.

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Arrowpoint and IntelliGenesis have won spots on a multiple-award U.S. Air Force contract for cybersecurity services. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a ceiling value of $60 million and calls on the awardees to provide defense industrial base partners with a comprehensive solution to shore up their cyber defenses. More