The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking industry proposals for a project to develop core technologies for a sixth-generation wireless network. A notice published Friday on SAM.gov states the acquisition is reserved for small businesses. NIST is looking for a vendor to design, evaluate and demonstrate artificial intelligence-bas...
David “Heat” Lyons, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Scientific Systems Co. Inc. as vice president of business development. He will bring to the role over three decades of aerospace and defense industry experience as he oversees SSCI’s client base and new markets, the company said Thursday. Lyons, a global strike subjec...
Alec Newell, former senior strategy and business development manager at General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business, has assumed the role of business development vice president at NetCentrics. He will help drive growth in NetCentrics’ national security and federal civilian segments through strategies for IT and mission support ...
A division of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has received two contracts worth approximately $580 million for software development and cybersecurity services. The multiyear contracts awarded to GDIT’s intelligence and homeland security division in April expand the company’s portfolio in cybersecurity, cloud...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will develop a long-range electronic warfare system prototype for the second phase of a U.S. Army program aimed at providing higher echelons with situational awareness through the detection and disruption of signals of interest from adversaries. The Terrestrial Layer System-Echelons Above Brigade is designed to support EW...
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for its planned procurement of space vehicles under the Tranche 2 Transport Layer program. SDA is looking to award an other transaction authority to more than one vendor to support the development and deployment of 54 or more spacecraft with infrared sensors in six orbital planes...
Daniel McCoy, former chief innovation officer at the Transportation Security Administration, has joined advisory firm BMNT as head of business development. He will aim to expand BMNT’s innovation and transition services to organizations involved in mission areas such as national defense, intelligence gathering, homeland security, space ex...
Naval Air Systems Command has chosen a partnership between GALT Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. to move into the second and third phases of an industry competition to build a network pod capable of supporting MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle operations by the U.S. Marine Corps. Under the SkyTower 2 Airborne Network Extension program, the...
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority within the Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting comments on a draft solicitation for the second iteration of a program meant to advance the rapid development, assessment and commercialization of medical countermeasures. The BARDA Accelerator Network 2.0 program is anticipate...
BrainGu has received a five-year, $125 million contract to support a cloud-based command and control environment for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System. The Small Business Innovation Research Phase III award will include the provision of DevSecOps as a service to the Department of Defense Platform One at multiple secur...
