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.
Read More »Frost & Sullivan: DoD’s C4ISR Spending Could Reach $58.5B by 2025
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.
Read More »AFRL Issues RFI on Advanced Battle Management System’s C2 Application Component
Derek Tournear: Space Development Agency Plans Satellite Procurement for LEO Mesh Network
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.
Read More »Boeing Subsidiary to Help Update Air Mobility Command’s Mission C2 Platform
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.
Read More »Cubic Closes PIXIA, Delerrok Acquisitions; Bradley Feldmann Quoted
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.
Read More »Air Force Seeks Info on E-4B Airborne Ops Center Aircraft Replacement Program
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.
Read More »Chris Bogdan: Booz Allen Eyes Air Force Ground Data Station Development Contract
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.
Read More »Leidos Receives Potential $160M Army Software Engineering Order
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.
Read More »Navy Selects Six Firms for C2 Tech Supply Contracts
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 …
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