The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has awarded contracts to four U.S. frontier artificial intelligence companies to advance the Department of Defense’s adoption of AI capabilities. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI were awarded contracts with a $200 million ceiling to develop agentic AI workflows for various mission are...
Counterintelligence and cyber tools developer Sphinx has acquired Enigma International to expand its portfolio of intelligence and cybersecurity offerings for defense and commercial security customers. Enigma Offers Sphinx Access to More Federal Contract Vehicles Sphinx said Monday it expects the transaction to broaden its presence in the federal go...
General Dynamics Information Technology has secured a $143 million contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, or NAWCWD, to support the engineering, logistics, intelligence analysis and demonstration of electronic warfare technologies. Top-tier Navy experts will participate in the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Navy Summit to e...
A bill sponsored by Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind., and endorsed by Sens. Dan Sullivan, R-Ark., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., that aims to modernize and enhance the United States’ missile defense capabilities was introduced on Tuesday. Messmer’s website says the Ground and Orbital Launched Defeat of Emergent Nuclear Destruction and Other Missile...
NOBLE has won a position on a potential $500 million U.S. Army contract to provide commercial-off-the-shelf items and equipment for the service branch’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense, or JPEO CBRND. JPEO CBRND Commercial Solutions Contract Scope The company said Tuesday JPEO CBRND Com...
Golden Dome, President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S. missile defense system, could leverage AI services to boost the system’s autonomy and reduce the manpower required for the system’s operation, according to a news report. The U.S. Army is scouting for AI capabilities for Golden Dome as it is a large contributor to the air and miss...
China’s upper hand in a test of military tech power comes down to the interconnectivity of its various parts and moving pieces, Shubhi Mishra, CEO and founder of Raft and a two-time winner of the prestigious Wash100 Award, told GovCon Wire in an exclusive interview. “China is already moving like one machine. Their sys...
The Missile Defense Agency has unveiled new details about a potential 10-year, multiple-award contract for a system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting and neutralizing airborne threats to the United States. Called the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, the effort has a maximum value of $151 billion, accordi...
The Department of State has approved the potential foreign military sale of Javelin missiles and related equipment to Estonia for $296 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday that the Estonian government plans to acquire 800 FGM-148F Javelin, including eight fly-to-buy, missiles and 72 Javelin Lightweight Command Launch Units...
Elbit Systems of America has secured a $112 million delivery order from the Marine Corps Systems Command for Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggle, or SBNVG, systems. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company said Wednesday the delivery order was issued under a multi-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in 2023. Elbit Systems w...
