The National Defense Industrial Association hosted a meeting on Nov. 14 to allow representatives from companies to present their commercial off-the-shelf technology platforms to Will Roper, director of the Defense Department’s strategic capabilities office, the National Defense magazine reported Monday. Sandra I. Erwin writes executives from Allegheny Technologies, Battelle, Creative Micro Systems, Endeavor Robotics, General Atomics, […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has began to develop a large Group 5 unmanned aerial system that will operate from a ship to support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force as well as U.S. Navy fleets and U.S. Army ground forces, USNI News reported Monday. Megan Eckstein writes Lt. Col. Noah Spataro, Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and […] More

BAE Systems has developed a reconfigurable chip that is designed to help radio systems adapt to changing environments in the field. The company said Tuesday the Microwave Array Technology for Reconfigurable Integrated Circuits chip was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of the Adaptive RF Technology program. DARPA’s ART program aims to develop communication […] More

Kenneth Callicutt, director of capability and resource integration at the U.S. Strategic Command, has said unmanned aircraft vehicles could be deployed in non-permissive environments, operate as part of a network and expand manned aircraft’s “sensor net,” Aviation International News reported Tuesday. Bill Carey writes Callicutt made the remarks Tuesday at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space […] More

Vector Space Systems has secured a Phase II contract under NASA‘s Small Business Technology Transfer project to continue developing an upper stage prototype for the Vector-R launch vehicle. The award complements the company’s existing contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to examine the potential use of Vector-R’s first stage as a second stage for DARPA’s XS-1 experimental spaceplane, Vector Space Systems said […] More

The mission of Chantilly, Virginia-based contractor Vencore‘s internal technology development and engineering subsidiary remains the same year out from its initial rebrand and relaunch: transformative applied research for organizations in the government, utility and commercial arenas. More than 200 scientists, engineers and analysts now staff the Basking Ridge, New Jersey-headquartered Vencore Labs business and focus its applied research in […] More

Lockheed Martin has secured a $36.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform research and development work under the second phase of the service branch’s System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation program. The Defense Department said Tuesday Lockheed’s aeronautics segment will develop architectures intended to help the Air Force meet air superiority goals in contested environments as well […] More

Inovio Pharmaceuticals has begun to enroll 125 individuals for the second stage of the Phase 1 clinical trial of its Ebola DNA vaccine candidate in an effort to evaluate how the vaccine generates immune responses. Inovio tested the INO-4212 vaccine in 75 healthy volunteers during the first clinical trial’s initial stage and found that 100 percent […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded PFP Cybersecurity a contract to study cybersecurity technologies designed to provide threat intelligence and detection to secure Internet of Things and embedded systems. PFP said Friday the new technology will work to protect IoT-connected devices such as power grids, smart devices and cars against cyber attacks. The company will work under DARPA’s Leveraging the Analog Domain […] More

RKF Engineering Solutions has won a one-year, $19.7 million contract to support a Defense Information Systems Agency organization’s electromagnetic environmental effects engineering and analysis activities. The Washington, D.C.-based company will perform the contract work in Annapolis, Maryland, and Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, through June 26, 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. RKF Engineering Solutions will collaborate with […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Georgia Tech a potential four-year, $9.4 million contract to research and develop multi-model analog sensing platforms for the service branch. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost reimbursement contract through a competitive acquisition process with 45 proposals received as part of the Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security program, […] More

Praxis Engineering Technologies has won a $12.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a multi-model analog sensing platform for a cybersecurity technology development program run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Defense Department said Thursday Praxis will help the service branch identify features to compute from signals that a device emits during training and testing as […] More