Tag Archives: command and control

The Missile Defense Agency has issued a broad agency announcement seeking potential sources of command and control, battle management and communications concepts to support the U.S. military's ballistic missile defense system operations.

A new Frost & Sullivan analysis estimates the Department of Defense’s spending on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems could increase from $53.6B in 2019 to $58.5B over the next five years at a compound annual growth rate of 1.5 percent.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has asked industry to provide information on existing software platforms, applications, packages and microservices in support of the commandONE line of effort of the Advanced Battle Management Systems program.

Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear has said that SDA wants to begin the process of awarding contracts in August to procure communications and tracking satellites that will support its planned mesh network in low-Earth orbit, National Defense magazine reported Thursday.

A Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary has won a five-year recompete contract from the U.S. Air Force to update and sustain a command-and-control technology Air Mobility Command personnel use to manage global missions.

Cubic (NYSE: CUB) has completed its acquisitions of Delerrok and PIXIA in a push to advance growth priorities for its mission solutions and transportation systems business segments.

The Air Force has issued a presolicitation notice to seek information on a new aircraft to replace its fleet of legacy E-4B National Airborne Operations Center planes. A notice posted Wednesday on beta SAM website says the proposed Survivable Airborne Operations Center Weapon System aircraft will be a key National Military Command System component in support of the president, defense secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Chris Bogdan, senior vice president of aerospace business at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), told Defense One in an interview published Thursday that the company aims to secure a contract to develop ground data stations for the U.S. Air Force’s new missile warning satellites.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a potential five-year, $160M task order to help the U.S. Army engineer software for radars, mission command platforms and surface-to-surface missile observation systems. The task order, which has one base year plus four option years, will involve post-deployment and production sustainment support to the Army’s Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center, the company said Monday.

Six companies have won potential 10-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts to provide command-and-control platforms and related technology for the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific received 14 bids for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, each containing a two-year base term and four two-year options. The …