Martin UAV has secured contracts from the U.S. Army to continue the development of a vertical take-off and landing drone under the Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems program, FlightGlobal reported Thursday.

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T-Worx Holdings will offer its networked rail platform to help U.S. Army contractors create a new series of squad firearms.

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The Department of Health and Human Services has included global business advisory firm EY in its potential five-year, $49M contract to provide a range of intelligent automation and artificial intelligence services and technologies.

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Paul Dillahay recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding NCI’s recent partnership with Holonic Technologies, the benefits the relationship will have on both companies, their customers and how NCI will be able to differentiate itself in the federal market moving forward. 

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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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Textron has begun testing a new configuration of the RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial system developed by its AAI Corp. subsidiary for the U.S. Army, Rotor and Wing International reported Friday.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, was selected to the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her vision to transform the department’s acquisition policy, update F-35 program strategy and establish a Space Force. The latest honor represents Lord’s third Wash100 win.

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Five companies will demonstrate automatic rifle prototypes in June as part of a competition to replace the U.S. Army‘s standard M16/M4 weapon and light machine gun, Military Times reported Thursday. The Army selected General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems unit, Textron’s AAI subsidiary, FN America, PCP Tactical and Sig Sauer last year to participate in the Next Generation Squad Weapon program. The […] More

Omega Aerial Refueling Services intends to purchase new aircraft and take out from storage its Boeing-built KC-707 and KDC-10 tankers as the U.S. Air Force looks to industry for additional tanker services, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. “We are very much interested in bringing our expertise to that problem, and expect to go ahead and either bid or […] More

Five companies have won separate 12-month other transaction agreements to develop automatic rifle prototypes for the U.S. Army. The OTAs announced Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice will cover the development and production of a system demonstrator representative of level 6 technology and manufacturing readiness under the Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle program. The Army seeks an NGSAR […] More

Harris has secured a potential $15-year, $141 million contract from the Airports Authority of India to help modernize the country’s air traffic management communications system. The company said Thursday it aims to help AAI update network operations and security measures as well as increase the performance, quality and reliability of the Indian ATM infrastructure through the Futuristic Telecommunications Infrastructure […] More

NASA has confirmed the operational status of two unmanned aircraft systems that Vanilla Aircraft and Black Swift Technologies separately developed through the space agency’s Small Business Innovative Research program. NASA said Tuesday Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 and Black Swift’s S2 small UAS are both designed to support scientific investigations. VA001 works to operate in austere conditions with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit, lift 35 […] More