5G is becoming increasingly critical to defense missions at home and abroad, and the technology is evolving more rapidly than ever before. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 5G Forum on May 22 takes a deep dive into the U.S. government’s top 5G priorities, opportunities, challenges and initiatives as advancements in this vital technology area con...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Those familiar with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, especially its updated 2.0 version, know that its most significant shift from earlier Department of Defense cybersecurity efforts lies in the introduction of a tiered certification process. Unlike past standards, such as NIST SP...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems division has secured a $157 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the enterprise management software of the service branch’s air-launched cruise missile system. The contractor will perform sustainment and modernization of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile ente...
HII (NYSE: HII) has received a $120.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to create a special incentive program to improve the quality of life for sailors stationed at the company’s facility in Newport News, Virginia. The modification was made under a previously awarded contract for the design and construction of the future USS...
General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business unit has secured a $52.9 million contract to help the U.S. Army sustain its fleet of MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems. Under the five-year contract, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will perform sustainment and logistics support for Gray Eagle at its facility in Poway, California, the De...
Deloitte Consulting will provide advanced manufacturing support and enterprisewide digital manufacturing data vault capabilities and services under a potential seven-year, $99.8 million other transaction production agreement with the U.S. Navy. The majority of the contract work will occur in Arlington, Virginia, through April 2031, the Department of...
Modernization is a top priority for the Department of Defense, and many department-wide modernization initiatives are currently underway. Though these efforts have a broad reach across the organization, individual DOD components are supplementing them with tailored approaches to their own specific challenges. To address the unique demands of shifts ...
Information technology is a top priority for the Department of Defense, and the organization is currently working to update its software modernization strategy, according to DOD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers. The existing plan operates around three tenets: accelerating cloud adoption, establishing a software factory eco...
One of the more ambitious missions of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent memory is its dynamic spectrum sharing, or DSS, framework. This initiative aims to identify a pathway to securely open up a spectrum band to commercial wireless users that is typically used for critical military purposes like missile deterrence. The DOD’s work...
Arcfield has secured a potential five-year, $93 million follow-on contract to provide full life cycle support to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s next-generation secure data-sharing tool. The company said Tuesday it will help AFRL maintain the Information Support Server Environment and X-domain Agile Rules-Based Information Transfer Orchest...
