KBR announced on Monday that the company has received a three-year, $20 million contract to provide scientific support focused on airman readiness medical research, building on its existing research and development efforts at the Air Force Research Laboratory with an increased scope of work. “With professional services ranging from biomedical to health science, human research […] More

In the Department of Defense’s near future, John Sherman, the department’s chief information officer and acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, said multiple modernization efforts will ideally converge to fully bring the DOD into the digital age and help ensure the country’s technical advantage. “In a few years, our software modernization efforts will fully continue […] More

Lance Alsheimer has been promoted to serve as executive vice president and manager of the air-sea forces support sector at DCS, where he previously worked as VP. He now leads a team focused on naval and air weapons research and development, and succeeds Larry Egbert who is now the president and chief operating officer of […] More

Technology and engineering services provider Infoscitex has completed a 5,000-square-foot expansion of its corporate office in Dayton, Ohio. Infoscitex said Wednesday its newly renovated and expanded headquarters, which is opposite the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, features conference rooms and cube spaces for collaborative work. The DCS subsidiary employs personnel who provide support to various government […] More

Lockheed Martin's aeronautics business has received a $138 million Foreign Military Sales contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for development and deployment of an anti-collision system and an anti-radiation missile and other efforts under the Peace Phoenix Rising 2 program of the Taiwanese air force.

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IBM and Salesforce have teamed up to help government agencies, businesses and schools verify an individual’s health and vaccine status to enable them to safely reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership will facilitate the integration of IBM Digital Health Pass with the Salesforce Work.com platform to provide organizations with a single tool for making data-driven decisions as they work to streamline communications, initiate actions and reduce risks.

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Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has partnered with the U.S. Air Force to accelerate response times to 911 calls at areas near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

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Block MEMS has secured a $5.5M contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to continue working on a technology designed to detect chemical warfare agents, illegal drugs and explosives.

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General Dynamics and Intelligent RF Solutions have signed a reseller agreement for a software platform designed to automatically classify spectrum signals. SignalEye uses a machine learning technology and works to help military and security personnel recognize threats as well as obtain situational awareness across the RF spectrum, General Dynamics said Monday. The platform is designed to run on commodity laptops and […] More

Octo Consulting has won a multiyear, $15M contract to develop and sustain software platforms for the U.S. Air Force‘s financial systems operations. The company said Thursday it will update the FMSuite, eFinance and LeaveWeb applications as part of an effort to automate financial data management and processes at the military service. The eFinance and FM Suite apps are intended […] More

The U.S. Air Force‘s Program Executive Office Digital has started employing cloud-hosted software systems to allow acquisition authorities to share workflows in real time with contractors and streamline data reviewing processes. The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said Friday PEO Digital has adopted review, co-authoring and redaction tools that act like social media platforms for documents […] More

UES has received a potential $49.1 million contract to research and develop materials and technologies that could help the U.S. Air Force control and defend against photonic energy. The company will perform tasks under the Flash and Laser Airborne Protection System program that seeks to boost aircrew defense against flash-blindness and directed energy attacks, the Defense Department said Friday. Work […] More