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Anduril Industries has launched Bolt, its new line of vertical takeoff and landing, or VTOL, drones. The Bolt base configuration for the autonomous air vehicle, or AAV, is man-portable and offers capabilities for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as search and rescue, Anduril said Thursday. The AAV’s loitering munition kin, called Bolt-M, is designed […] More
HII Mission Technologies has booked a $75 million systems engineering contract to support integrated training systems onboard U.S. Navy vessels aimed at boosting sailors’ combat readiness. Tasks under the contract include integrating live, virtual and constructive networks with combat systems to enable sailors’ training on shipboard weapons consoles, HII said. The contract also calls for […] More
Secure collaboration platform developer Mattermost has named Bill Anderson as principal product manager who will lead the company’s innovations in advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence and quantum cryptography. Anderson, former CIS Secure president, is expected to bring in new partnerships with the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, Mattermost said Tuesday. Ian Tien, […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed two tests on the new artificial intelligence capabilities of its Forward Area Air Defense, or FAAD, an advanced battle manager system designed for counter-drone operations. The tests on the counter-unmanned aerial system’s AI upgrade demonstrated streamlined decision-making to foil UAS swarm attacks through a single button command from a mobile tablet, […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp. has started the construction of its Aviation Innovation and Technology Center, or AITC, to support the development of the U.S. Air Force’s Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft and other projects. Located at the company’s campus at the Dayton International Airport in Ohio, the AITC will employ artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and […] More
Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division has awarded ManTech a $63 million recompete contract for the systems design modernization of the U.S. Navy’s seaborne underway replenishment, or UNREP. The five-year contract calls for work on carrier and large deck amphibious UNREP platforms facilitating fuel and supply transfers between ships at sea, ManTech said Tuesday. […] More
Guided flight demonstrations are scheduled this fall for Leidos’ small cruise missile, dubbed “Black Arrow”, after the completion of its carry and store separation testing in an AC-130J aircraft. The forthcoming demos will be conducted from a U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command warplane, Leidos said Thursday. The company started working on the SCM’s design […] More
The mission technologies division of HII has inaugurated its new advanced materials and coatings lab in Willowbrook, Illinois, which is geared at enhancing aerospace technology support to International Space Station missions. HII said Wednesday that the new facility will also expand its specialty coating research and production capability to applications and solutions for the Department […] More
Computing solutions integrator Exxact has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to make its computing and data center solutions available to the public sector. Serving as Exxact’s Master Government Aggregator, Carahsoft said it will make the Fremont, California-based company’s offerings available through its reseller partners and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement and OMNIA Partners contracts. Michael Adams, […] More
RTX business Raytheon has booked a $736.5 million U.S. Navy contract to supply Air Intercept Missile-9X Sidewinders as part of Lot 24 production requirements for the Navy, Air Force and Army, as well as foreign military sales to unnamed buyers. The company will work on the contract at various continental U.S. locations, as well as […] More
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has secured a contract, valued at $847.2 million as per a SAM.gov post, to build two C-130J Hercules aircraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to replace its current WP-3D Orion hurricane hunter aircraft in service since the mid-1970s. The procurement is partly funded under the 2023 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations […] More
Anduril Industries estimates that its Autonomous Surveillance Towers, or ASTs, now cover 30 percent of the U.S. southern land border. The company cited the estimate as it announced on Thursday the deployment of the 300th Anduril AST to support the homeland security functions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Anduril’s sentry tower offerings, including the […] More
