https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTvgkO2Xw4 The autonomous Swarm demonstration, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, highlights a first-of-its-kind technology that gives naval warfighters a decisive edge through enabling unmanned Navy vessels to overwhelm an adversary. The demonstration took place on the James River in Virginia during the firs...
At the Potomac Officer’s Club 5th Annual Intel Summit on Thursday, keynote speaker Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence a 2018 Wash100 recipient, addressed the room with his observations on the landscape of the intelligence community, the challenges facing agencies in threat detection and how to keep pace with technological advanc...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will provide information technology operations support to a Defense Department organization focused on efforts to counter improvised explosive devices under a potential five-year, $325.9 million task order. The company said Wednesday it will implement a modern communications technology to help...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 22, 2018 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has entered into an agreement with Department 13 International for the joint development and sale of counter-drone technologies for defense customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 8. D13 said Jan. 8 the teaming deal initially focuses on business opportunities for its Mesmer counter...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 22, 2018 ” BAE Systems has developed a microwave close-in weapon system that it hopes to install on U.S. Navy vessels to supplement the Mk38 defense platform and counter threats such as aircraft, drones, missiles and other ships, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Drive reported Thursday the techn...
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has received a potential five-year, $933.7 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical services to the Missile Defense Agency. The Defense Department said Friday APL will perform the services to support MDA’s efforts to build systems designed to protec...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential seven-year, $110 million contract to provide networked cruise missile prototypes to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop’s space and mission systems business will design, develop, manufacture and test cruise missiles that can help defeat adversarial a...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential five-year, $135.5 million contract to provide integrated common processors to the maritime surveillance systems program office under the U.S. Navy‘s program executive office for submarines. The Defense Department said Monday the Navy aims to equip Surveillance Towed ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential five-year, $110 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to support the military branch’s cruise missile science and technology demonstration project. The Defense Department said Monday Lockheed’s missiles and fire control unit will design, develop, manufacture and test prototype ...
Tony Cole, vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE), has said federal agencies should establish an intelligence-led cybersecurity strategy that transitions the focus from regulatory compliance toward risk mitigation. The adoption of an intelligence-driven strategy calls for agencies to know their a...
