Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will maintain surface ship undersea warfare systems for the U.S. Navy and the governments of Australia and Japan under a contract worth potentially $291.9 million. The company will install AN/SQQ-89 combat system shipset hardware and perform logistics support work under the contract with an initial value of $24 million, the Depar...
NASA has issued a final request for proposals for a potential five-year, $719 million contract to provide multidiscipline engineering support services for the engineering and technology directorate at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services III is a cost-plus-fixed-fee IDIQ cont...
The Defense Department’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative is underway within federal agencies and military branches, following the release of the DOD’s JADC2 implementation plan in March 2022. One central component of JADC2 is modernizing the way mission partners and coalitions share information, especially as toda...
The Department of Defense is working to overcome international policy-related hurdles, data tagging challenges and training obstacles as it looks to build resilient mission partner environments and implement JADC2 on an enterprise level. These issues are becoming increasingly more urgent today as the tense geopolitical landscape continues to change,...
Huntington Ingalls Industries, which now operates as HII (NYSE: HII) as part of a rebranding effort, changed the name of its Technical Solutions division to Mission Technologies after a series of acquisitions and the expansion of its national security capabilities. Andy Green, an executive vice president of HII, will serve as president of HII’s Mi...
The space domain plays a critical role in Joint Force operations as cross-service information sharing takes priority within the Department of Defense. Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner said we’re in the most complex strategic security environment he’s seen in three gen...
The Department of Defense is placing high priority on the development of secure, resilient mission partner environments as it moves forward with its highly-anticipated Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. “Modernizing mission partner information sharing” is one of the five key lines of effort that make up the Department of Defense’...
Biometric data and technologies are being deployed within multiple federal agencies to boost the accuracy of identity verification and free up human decision makers for other, more complex and cognitive tasks, according to federal officials. However, an expansion of capabilities is necessary to fully reap the benefits and address the existing issues...
The Department of Defense has released the implementation plan for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept that aims to help the Joint Force facilitate information sharing and decision making through a warfighting network that will use artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and predictive analytics. “Command and Control...
The U.S. government appears to be favoring the expansion of surveillance technology deployments along the border with the inclusion of funds for autonomous surveillance towers and other border security platforms in an omnibus budget package, The Washington Post reported Friday. On Thursday, Congress approved and sent to the White House a $1.5 trilli...
