Anduril has secured a two-year, $5.2 million contract to help the U.K. government demonstrate base protection technology that uses artificial intelligence to detect threats across multiple domains. The company said Friday it will offer its technology to support the U.K.’s TALOS program, which aims to accelerate the country’s integrated command and control approach. The Anduril-made […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Serco Inc. a potential $600 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to support the Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) Ashore Sustainment Program by providing software, hardware and firmware maintenance services. Serco said Thursday the contract has an initial delivery order worth $153 million.

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Karl Tappert, vice president of Army C4ISR systems at General Dynamics’ information technology business, has said the company aims to help the service maintain sensors, radars and night vision devices through the Integrated Base Defense – Sustainment Support program. He wrote in a blog entry posted Friday the IBD-SS program is meant to centralize management and sustainment of […] More

Flir Systems has received a one-year, $74.7 million order to provide surveillance camera systems for the U.S. Army‘s Electro-Optical/Infrared-Force Protection program. The Army will implement TacFLIR cameras in efforts to augment perimeter security and safety of U.S. warfighters stationed across the globe, FLIR said Monday. The company also secured an $8.8 million contract during the third quarter of 2017 to supply […] More

Force Protection Video Equipment has received a follow-on order from the Department of Homeland Security to supply additional cameras along with VeriPic-made enterprise photo and evidence management software. The order is for 160 LE50 high-definition body camera systems that work to record audio and video for up to 10 hours at 1080p video mode and 12 […] More

A team composed of Kongsberg, Milrem and QinetiQ North America will introduce a jointly developed remotely operated robotic fire support and force protection system at the 2017 Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference and Exhibition in Springfield, Virginia. The system comprises Milrem’s THeMIS modular unmanned ground vehicle equipped with a hybrid diesel-electric drive, Kongsberg’s PROTECTOR remote weapon station and QinetiQ NA’s UGV control system, Milrem […] More

Users of Force Protection Video Equipment-built body-worn cameras and surveillance equipment may now store their audio, photo and video files in the cloud using Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud. Force Protection said Monday the cloud storage function utilizes VeriPic‘s Evidence Storage Locker software with an individualized encryption tool in which each data file is secured with a unique […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $20.5 million contract option to Motorola Solutions for life cycle sustainment work on the military branch’s enterprise land and mobile radio systems. Motorola Solutions will provide radio equipment preventive maintenance, asset and configuration management, password management and software update installation services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Ashore Program, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company will also […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked vendors to provide information on mobile layered defense platforms and related components designed to defend mobile and fixed naval and land-based forces against threats posed by small unmanned aircraft systems. DARPA said in a request for information posted Aug. 11 on FedBizOpps it is interested in scalable systems, […] More

Force Protection Video Equipment has secured an order from the U.S. Forest Service for LE50 high-definition body camera kits built on Ambarella chip sets. Force Protection Video said Tuesday LE50 is designed to provide 10 hours of 1080-pixel record time or 12 hours of 720p recording, as well as 50 hours of standby time with 32 gigabytes of internal storage. The camera kits […] More

Dakota Consulting Inc. has won a five-year, $34 million contract to provide advisory and assistance services to the Headquarters Air Force Material Command’s directorate of logistics, civil engineering and force protection. The company said June 30 it will work with partners MCR Federal, Morgan Borszcz Consulting, Quantech Services and Enterprise Ventures to support the A4 […] More

The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has awarded a BlackBerry division a potential four-year contract to help the agency expand deployment of a suite of crisis communications applications at the Defense Department. AtHoc said Tuesday its Networked Crisis Communications Suite will support about 37,000 users throughout the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Security Services and the Washington Headquarters Services. “Their […] More