Military stocks are taking a hit as the Department of Defense prioritizes research and development over purchases of aircraft, tanks and other equipment and creates opportunities to work with Silicon Valley startups and other nontraditional defense contractors, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Competition with countries like Russia and China has resulted in a change […] More

Collins Aerospace, part of Raytheon Technologies, worked with General Atomics, Palantir Technologies, Parry Labs and Tektonux to jointly demonstrate multiple technologies in an integrated, multi-domain operation scenario. Collins said Thursday it led the integration of various MDO-applicable technologies for the Open Group FACE and SOSA Consortia Technical Interchange Meeting, which showcased open-systems architecture. The integration […] More

Skydweller Aero has received an investment from Neva Sgr, a venture capital fund backed by Italy-based banking group Intesa Sanpaolo Group, through its round of Series A financing. Robert Miller, CEO of Skydweller, said in a statement published Tuesday the company is honored with Neva Sgr’s investment in its technology and expects the partnership to […] More

An industry team led by Raytheon Technologies will support a U.S. Army program that seeks to build a tactical ground station to help detect and monitor threats for long-range precision targeting operations. The Raytheon-led team for the service’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node program includes Algorithmia, C3.ai, Collins Aerospace, Curtiss-Wright’s defense solution division, Esri, General […] More

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has demonstrated an activity-based intelligence methodology for a ground station being developed to help military users receive data and find potential threats on the battlefield.

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Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty has been appointed to serve at the National Defense University Foundation's board of directors.

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Persistent Systems used its mobile ad hoc networking technology to provide mobile connectivity support for the U.S. Air Force's second on-ramp experiment with the Advanced Battle Management System.

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Second Front Systems, an Arlington, Va.-based software development company, has raised $6M in seed capital as part of a funding round led by venture capital firm and Palantir investor Artis Ventures.

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The U.S. Army plans to come up with an interconnected platform designed to collect and transmit intelligence data to warfighters as they navigate the battlefield through the Distributed Common Ground System-Army program, Defense One reported Thursday. Raytheon has demonstrated its proposed offering, FoXTEN, for the DCGS-A competition. “We’ve been maturing the look and feel, the […] More

Five companies have won contracts worth up to $1M each from the U.S. Army to build a big data management platform designed to integrate and analyze information from various data sources and carry out forecasting and predictive analytics functions. The service posted the award notices Thursday in support of the two-phase Army Leader Dashboard program […] More

A team of Praescient Analytics researchers collaborated with a university research center during the week leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl to study sex and drug trafficking in New Jersey and New York, Bloomberg reported Jan. 31. Michael Riley writes the company’s team worked to collect Internet data on telephone numbers and coded language used […] More