The U.S. Army has issued a draft request for proposals for the initial design phase of the service branch’s optionally manned fighting vehicle (OMFV) under its relaunched competition to replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, the service announced Friday....
Gen. Maria Gervais, director of Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Team with Army Futures Command, will serve as a keynote speaker at Potomac Officers Club’s Future Virtual Battlefield Event on Wednesday, July 22nd....
The NextFlex consortium is working with the U.S. Army and Air Force Research Laboratory to manufacture flexible hybrid electronic systems such as X-ray imaging and wearable health-monitoring devices under a potential seven-year, $154M cooperative agreement....
The U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Cross-Functional Team (CFT) is establishing new labs to increase the innovation of vendors and improve individual and collective training, the Army News Service reported Tuesday....
Keith Conner, formerly the senior director of innovation at Peraton, has joined McLean, Va.-based professional services firm NuWave Solutions as its new chief technology officer....
Michael Kratsios, U.S. chief technology officer and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting undersecretary of research and engineering at the Department of Defense....
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has won a potential seven-year, $281.4M contract to design and fabricate a medium unmanned surface vehicle for the U.S. Navy's electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions....
Voyager Space Holdings has acquired Lakewood, Colo.-based research and development firm Pioneer Astronautics for an undisclosed sum as part of a strategy to establish a publicly-traded company within the recently created “NewSpace” sector....
BAE Systems plans to develop a $139M classified facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and create 650 jobs in the city, The Gazette reported Friday. Construction work on the proposed 200K-square-foot defense aerospace facility is expected to kick off by October and conclude by September 2022. Ryan Companies US will serve as the project’s developer....
The Department of Defense has signed $84.4M in agreements with seven companies under the Defense Production Act Title III to retain employees and strengthen domestic industrial base capabilities in small unmanned aerial systems, shipbuilding and space technology sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic....
