The Air Force Research Laboratory has begun soliciting white papers for a potential five-year, $497.9 million broad agency announcement that seeks to support research, development, integration and testing of computing technologies, architectures and techniques. The Extreme Computing BAA has four technical areas: advancing computing technology and ap...

CACI International‘s (NYSE: CACI) federal arm has received a five-year, $414 million task order to engineer software and systems supporting the U.S. Air Force’s functional and mission requirements. The company will help the Air Force Research Laboratory explore information processing tools for battlespace awareness and decision-making ap...

Alexis Bonnell, former emerging technology evangelist at Google‘s public sector business, has been named the inaugural chief information officer of the Air Force Research Laboratory and director of AFRL’s new digital capabilities directorate. She will oversee the development of the lab’s digital capabilities and information technol...

The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking feedback on a draft solicitation for its potential five-year, $300 million Engineering for Virtualized Enterprise and Remote Access Technology program. AFRL expects the EVEREST contract will have a cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity structure and comprise software, hardware and r...

Concurrent Technologies Corp. seeks to help the U.S. Air Force bolster installation grid resilience and modernize flightline power generation under a pair of contracts from the branch’s research laboratory. The first contract, valued at $4.8 million, will focus on developing a direct current microgrid for Kirtland AF Base in New Mexico to redu...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured an $80.3 million sole-source contract to develop and demonstrate a communication system using military platforms and commercial space internet services. The company will help the service branch test system using common user terminal equipment under the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet p...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) a potential $80.8 million contract to build and conduct experiments to test satellite communications systems designed to operate with space-based internet constellations operating in geostationary, medium and low-Earth orbits. Contract work will occur in Salt Lake City under the Defens...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory issued a broad agency announcement in search of research and development support for the Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research program. In a notice published Thursday on SAM.gov, the Department of the Air Force said it is soliciting white papers for proposed new technologies involving area...

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate has issued a broad agency announcement valued at approximately $500 million to identify potential partners that could research, develop, test and evaluate quantum information technology to support command, control, communications, computers and intelligence missions. A notice posted T...

The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a call for white papers to develop electronic warfare methods and technologies as part of a potential $100 million acquisition effort. AFRL said Friday in a solicitation notice the Radio Frequency Electronic Warfare Focused Laboratory Evaluations of Critical Technologies program will explore new and emerg...