Nichols Martin

Reportlinker has released a forecast study that the global drone market will grow to reach $16.7 billion in 2022. The predicted growth stems from the increase of drone demand for military and commercial use, and the continuing regulatory efforts on drones, the research firm said Thursday. Drone-producing firms are continuously making technological advancement efforts that may […] More

The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded three-year contracts to five pairs of companies through the Defense Department‘s mentor-protege program. DIA said Wednesday that awardees will collaborate on work areas such as continuous diagnostics and mitigation; data collection and analysis; cyber range; program protection; insider threat; preventing strategic surprises; analysis technologies and methods; intelligence collections; improving mission support capabilities; enhancing counterintelligence […] More

Stryke Industries has received a contract to integrate an artificial intelligence engine with U.S. Army unmanned aerial systems and a universal ground control station. Stryke will conduct the ScenGen engine integration effort in partnership with subcontractor Scorpion Computer Services as part of the Defense Research and Development Rapid Innovation Fund program, Scorpion said Thursday. The Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama will license the […] More

OSC Edge has won a potential six-year, $44.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology services to the National Defense University. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will help manage an enterprise network that supports university IT users and students through the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center received 12 offers for […] More

Orbital ATK and the U.S. Air Force have signed a cooperative research and development agreement that seeks to facilitate certification of a rocket system for USAF’s Space and Missile Systems Center. The CRADA establishes a data exchange plan and framework required to certify Orbital ATK’s Next Generation Launch system for use in national security space missions, the company said […] More

Leonardo has received a contract of an undisclosed value to supply two AW119Kx helicopters to Latvia’s state border guard. The contract has an option for an additional helicopter and related aircrew or maintenance technician training services, Leonardo said Tuesday. Leonardo is scheduled to deliver the initial AW119Kx units from a company facility in  Philadelphia is expected […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded separate contracts to Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies business, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute to develop language processing software platforms. All five awardees will aim to produce systems designed to identify and comprehend media documents written in foreign languages under the Machine Translation for English […] More

Reportlinker has released a forecast study that the military cybersecurity market is projected to increase from $9.8 billion to $13.8 billion at a compound annual growth rate of 3.5 percent between 2017 and 2027. The research firm said Wednesday the market is expected to globally hold a cumulative value of more than $130 billion during the period of forecast. […] More

The U.S. Air Force has posted a broad agency announcement to solicit proposals for the research, development, integration, test and evaluation of a digital assistant tool that would provide analytical answers. USAF said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday it plans to allocate $24.9 million for the Multi-Source Exploitation Assistant for the Digital Enterprise project and award […] More

A joint venture between Bell Helicopter and Boeing has received a $23.3 million order to deliver flight test and evaluation services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command obligated the whole amount in fiscal 2018 funds which will not expire upon the conclusion of the current fiscal year, the Defense Department said Tuesday . The company will perform 90 […] More