Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received $1.5 billion in prototype agreements from the Space Development Agency to develop and operate 72 Beta satellites for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA said Monday the PWSA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Beta prototype sat...
Teleidoscope has secured a potential $100 million contract from the Department of Defense to proceed with the production of a prototype visual recognition and identification system. The artificial intelligence-based camera previously received funding from the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies program earlier this yea...
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) division will help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop foundations to enable artificial intelligence-driven decision-making in uncontrolled environments such as mass casualty triage and disaster relief. Under the In The Moment program of DARPA, a Raytheon BBN-led team will train algorithms using scenario-based ex...
The Department of Defense has formed a task force that intends to advance the responsible development and deployment of large language models and other generative artificial intelligence technologies across DOD. DOD said Thursday the chief digital and AI office will lead Task Force Lima, which will help mitigate risk and address redundancy as the de...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has wrapped up the critical design review of its satellites and related ground systems for the first tranche of the transport layer as part of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. The CDR phase included a system optical communications terminal interoperability test and design valida...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) saw its revenue jump 18 percent to $2.65 billion during the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 and reported a net income of $161.4 million, up 16.9 percent from the prior-year period. The McLean, Virginia-based information technology and management consulting firm said Friday it ended the quarter with a total...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) have agreed to jointly propose an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft platform to the U.S. Army’s Theater Level High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne – Signals Intelligence program. Leidos said Tuesday the partnership intends to equip a pair of Bombardier Gl...
Since its launch in 2022, the Army of 2030 initiative has guided the service branch toward its modernization goals. Now characterized by Army Secretary and 2023 Wash100 winner Christine Wormuth’s recently announced six operational imperatives – see and sense farther, mass dispersed forces with combat first, win the fires fight, protect...
Guided by Secretary Frank Kendall’s Seven Operational Imperatives – space order of battle, operationally focused advanced battle management systems, moving target engagement, tactical air dominance, resilient basing, global strike and readiness to deploy and fight – the U.S. Department of the Air Force is preparing to launch a number...
Digital assets are becoming an increasingly valuable and influential aspect of the U.S. Department of Defense’s mission. Whether it’s cybersecurity fortification, electronic warfare or cloud migration, digital transformation efforts are widespread and come with a host of reforms, new programs and reinventions of preexisting systems. Here is a gu...
