The Defense Department has issued the second draft solicitation for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud procurement program, Nextgov reported Monday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the final draft request for proposals covers responses to at least 1,000 industry and government questions submitted in March after DoD released the initial draft solicitation for the single-award contract for […] More

The Saudi Federation for Cyber Security and Programming has partnered with Booz Allen Hamilton to implement an educational program to help address a demand for cybersecurity talent. Booz Allen said Friday it will establish a cyber skills competition for students and professionals to support the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 and National Cyber Strategy. The company plans to base the program […] More

Iridium Communications has introduced the first group of six companies that will provide ground-based mobile services through its Iridium Certus broadband offering by mid-2018. The company said Wednesday Iridium Certus is powered by the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation and is designed to provide mobile communications services such as voice, cellular data, satellite internet and land […] More

Pakistan’s navy has begun to purchase new warships as part of an effort to replace six Type 21 frigates that the country acquired from the U.K. in the 1990s, Defense News reported Wednesday. The report said Pakistan awarded a contract in June 2017 for a Chinese Type 054A Jiangkai II frigate, with plans to buy two […] More

DJI has introduced a web-based service designed to help companies manage the operations of their unmanned aircraft systems using a single platform. The FlightHub software is a monthly subscription service that works to support the management of real-time UAS operations, flight data, drone fleets and pilot teams, DJI said Nov. 7. The service offers a live, map-based […] More

Korean Aerospace Industries has awarded Cobham‘s antenna systems business a contract to provide conformal antenna for South Korea’s future multirole fighter aircraft. The antenna suite is designed to provide communication, navigation and identification functionalities to the KF-X jet, Cobham said Oct. 17. David Bulley, vice president and general manager at Cobham Antenna Systems, noted the strategic […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have partnered to develop strategies to integrate remotely piloted aircraft into South Korea’s civil airspace. GA-ASI said Tuesday it seeks to understand the South Korean civil airspace system and its regulatory aspects through collaboration with KAIST’s Civil RPAS Research Center. CR2CENT offers advice […] More

Korean Aerospace Industries has awarded Cobham a $9 million contract to supply an undisclosed quantity of Missile Eject Launcher units for integration onto South Korea’s future KF-X multirole fighter aircraft. Cobham said Tuesday it aims to deliver the weapons carriage and release equipment to KAI by 2020. Ken Kota, senior vice president and general manager of Cobham’s mission systems […] More

Ronald Spoehel, a former chief financial officer at NASA, has been elected as chairman of the board of directors of hydraulic fracturing technology manufacturer RocketFrac Services. RocketFrac said Tuesday Spoehel brings more than 35 years of executive and general management experience in the energy and technology sectors to his new role. He served as founder and […] More

Reston, Virginia-based information technology firm iGov has conducted an operational utility assessment on its field computing device-wearable system during a digitally-aided close air support test at a Defense Department test range in Nevada. The company said Thursday the FCD-W platform was used to transmit CAS 9-lines, Air on Station reports and other digital information to aircraft as part of the […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton and Techstars have unveiled six teams comprised of startups and Booz Allen’s product teams that will work to develop cybersecurity technologies. Techstars said Monday it entered a partnership with Booz Allen to support and develop emerging technologies that could help address cybersecurity threats. The first class of the Startup Next Cyber pre-accelerator program includes Booz […] More

The Department of Homeland Security, Washington State office of cybersecurity and National Cyber Security Alliance will hold a public cyber preparedness and cybersecurity event from Oct. 4 to 5 in support of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2016. The two-day event will kick off this year’s NCSAM and focus on topics such as drones and autonomous vehicles, emergency management of critical […] More