Government Technology

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has landed a potential $29M contract to build technology prototypes, subsystems and components for the U.S. Army‘s directed energy system modernization initiative. The company said Wednesday it aims to help advance DE platforms intended to help the Army Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Forces Strategic Command perform counter-rocket, artillery, mortar, drone, […] More

The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate and industry will conduct an operational experimentation from Dec. 4 to 5 in Houston to assess technology platforms used by first responders. DHS said Tuesday it will work with 13 Houston-based public safety agencies and commercial partners to evaluate systems through the Next Generation First Responder – […] More

Boeing and SparkCognition intend to form a new joint venture that will develop software platforms designed to integrate autonomous cargo vehicles and other unmanned aircraft systems into the global airspace. Amir Husain, founder and CEO of SparkCognition, will serve as CEO of Austin, Texas-based SkyGrid that will help clients perform emergency response, industrial inspections and […] More

Battelle has landed an award from the R&D Magazine for its analytical software offering that works to detect and identify biological hazards. The nonprofit company said Tuesday its ThreatSEQ web-based service was recognized at the 2018 R&D 100 awards ceremony held Friday in Orlando, Fla. Omar Tabbaa, director of computational biology at Battelle, said the award seeks to […] More

Saab will provide desert and woodland camouflage systems under a potential $66M order from the U.S. Army. The company said Tuesday it will manufacture the Ultra Lightweight Camouflage Net Systems at its U.S. defense and security business unit’s Lillington, N.C.-based facility and expect deliveries to run from 2019 to 2020. Erik Smith, president and CEO […] More

Abaco Systems has partnered with EIZO Rugged Solutions to meet the video processing requirements of military and aerospace clients.  Abaco said Tuesday it will leverage EIZO’s experience in general-purpose graphics processing unit and video processing technology to offer new platforms for use in electronic warfare; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; remote sensing; and other compute-intensive operations. The collaboration with EIZO allows […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for information from potential providers of counter-unmanned aircraft systems in a move to address security concerns over hostile drones. DHS said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice its science and technology directorate will use the collected data to assess and identify commercial-off-the-shelf counter-UAS platforms in 2019 that could be […] More

The U.S. Army has begun to solicit industry insights on a program that aims to develop and demonstrate teaming of manned and unmanned aerial platforms to carry out tactical operations with minimal human intervention. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says Army Contracting Command expects to transition platforms at technology readiness level 4 to TRL 6 or 7 […] More

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a software designed to enable an autonomous bomb-defusing robot to return to an right position when it flips or stumbles in the field. APL said Friday the self-righting ability will initially support the military’s future Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System. […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to host a two-day conference in March to provide information about DARPA’s artificial intelligence research and development programs to Defense Department researchers and industry stakeholders. AI Colloquium will take place from March 6 to 7 in Alexandria, Va., and seeks to explore the potential applications of the technology in DoD missions, DARPA […] More

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has started to build a supersonic demonstrator aircraft at its facility in Palmdale, Calif., under a potential $247.5M contract that NASA awarded in April. The X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft is designed to travel at a speed of approximately 940 miles per hour at 55K feet and reduce sonic boom noise […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started to solicit proposals to research and develop technology platforms that will work to counter hypersonic vehicles. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement posted Nov. 6 on FedBizOpps the Glide Breaker program wants prospective offerors to build and demonstrate platforms designed to intercept moving hypersonic threats in […] More