The Department of Defense is working to adopt commercial technologies at a faster rate than ever before as the United States’ peer and near-peer competitors increase their own technological capabilities. This approach, known as a “fast follower” strategy, was outlined in the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which called for the DOD t...
In light of recent advancements in autonomous technologies, the Department of Defense has made tremendous efforts to understand the role of these tools in warfighting operations and fully harness the benefits autonomy can provide. When implementing these technologies, cultivating a relationship between human operators and new technology is cruc...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) reported fiscal year 2022 fourth-quarter sales of $3.7 billion, up 6 percent from the prior-year period, and saw its full-year revenue climb 5 percent to $14.4 billion. The defense and information technology services contractor said Tuesday non-GAAP diluted earnings per share rose 17 percent for the October-December period to $1....
The Air Force Research Laboratory is working with cloud service providers and technology companies to gain access to platforms that would offer the lab visibility into its information infrastructure while managing the privacy and security of data, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. James Sumpter, chief enterprise architect at AFRL, told the pu...
Advanced Space, a Westminster, Colorado-based aerospace company, has secured a $72 million contract to support the development of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Oracle spacecraft program. Work under the contract includes demonstrating space situational awareness and detecting and tracking objects in lunar region, AFRL said Thursday. Form...
Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business and Project Kuiper, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and SpiderOak Mission Systems have received contracts for the second phase of a Defense Innovation Unit project that seeks to demonstrate a hybrid architecture that would connect ground communications systems to satellite networks. The Hybrid Space Archit...
Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed cybersecurity leader, has published his latest feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program exploring the importance of linking integrated networks with robust communications as well as command and control on the battlefield in a multi-domain environment, which has been critical in the Ukraine’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2022 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) will provide scientific and medical expertise in support of health and human performance research and development efforts at the Air Force Research Laboratory under a three-year, $20 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported. The new agreement expands KBR’s scope of work with AFRL on medical re...
SpiderOak has announced the appointment of military veterans and industry experts to the newly created space advisory board to provide guidance as the company works to deploy zero trust-based platforms and services to protect national security and commercial space systems and data from cybersecurity threats. The members of the board are Ellen Pawlik...
BlueHalo has received a potential 10-year, $80 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to build a virtual range meant to support modeling and simulation activities involving directed energy weapons. AFRL said Thursday it will use the virtual range to hold directed energy concept events to train joint warfighters with DEWs, address ca...
