TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 26, 2016 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has completed initial performance trials on the Sea Hunter trimaran as part of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $17.8 million “other transaction” agreement modification from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform additional tasks under phase III of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node project. The company will work to fabricate, assemble and checkout a second Tern unman...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 28, 2016 ” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), Honeywell (NYSE: HON), SRI International, QinetiQ, Pratt & Miller, Carnegie Mellon University and Southwest Research Institute for its Ground X-Vehicle Technology program, ExecutiveBiz reported We...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 15, 2016 ” Vencore will provide research, development, test and evaluation services to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency™s Extreme DDoS Defense program under a potential $7.7 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Defense Department said Wednesday the program works to au...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2016 ” The Leidos-built (NYSE: LDOS) Sea Hunter autonomous ship demonstrator has been christened at a dockside ceremony Thursday in Portland, Oregon, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the ship will be used for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency™s Anti-Submari...
Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded an $89.4 million contract to further develop an unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for the second and third phases of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s VTOL X-Plane program. DARPA received three offers for the acquisition program and is obligating&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 26, 2016 ” Sotera Defense Solutions will provide research and development support for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s counter-insurgency operations program under an $11.4 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract from the U.S. Army...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun its search for an anti-submarine bistatic sonar system that works to maintain a ship’s stealth while in operation, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes DARPA seeks companies to develop active sonar sources, signal processing and undersea communications ...
MDA Space will acquire Blue Canyon Technologies from RTX business Raytheon The acquisition is an all-cash transaction valued at $620 million The deal is intended to strengthen MDA Space’s manufacturing capacity and footprint in the U.S. aerospace market MDA Space has agreed to acquire Blue Canyon Technologies, or BCT, from Raytheon, ...
IBM has committed more than $10 billion to advance its quantum computing roadmap The investment supports research and development, manufacturing scaling and more IBM plans to deliver Quantum Starling in 2029 as its first large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer IBM has unveiled a potential five-year, $10 billion investment plan to support quantum...
