The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Google have signed a three-year agreement to explore ways to improve the use of NOAA’s environmental and satellite data using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Read More »Army Selects L3Harris, Elbit Systems for $442M Night-Vision Tech Production OTA
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Elbit Systems’ (Nasdaq: ESLT) U.S. subsidiary will manufacture binocular night vision devices for the U.S. Army under a potential $442M other transaction authority contract.
Read More »DIU Approves Small Drones From Five Vendors for Federal Procurement; Michael Brown Quoted
The Defense Innovation Unit has announced that starting September, agencies can use the General Services Administration Schedule to buy from five companies small unmanned aerial systems that were made available through the Blue sUAS program.
Read More »Navy Seeks to Advance Maritime Sustainment Tech Prototype Projects Through Consortium
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division has asked industry for proposals to organize and run a consortium that will carry out individual and collaborative prototype projects related to maritime sustainment technology concepts through its members.
Read More »GMU GovCon Center: Federal Gov’t Uses Rapid Contracting Approaches for COVID-19 Response
A report by George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting says federal agencies have been using rapid contracting procedures to speed up contract awards in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Agencies are using Federal Supply Schedules as one of the contract flexibilities under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Government-wide contracts accounted for $527M of COVID-19-related contract obligations, while indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts represented $787M.
Read More »Govini Tracks Pentagon’s Use of OTAs, SBIR Contracts; Tara Murphy Dougherty Quoted
Govini analyzed the Department of Defense’s use of other transaction authorities and Small Business Innovation Research contracts between fiscal year 2015 and FY 2019 and found that the two contracting methods accounted for 10 percent, or $9.6B, of DoD’s spending on research, development, test and evaluation operations in 2019, Defense News reported Wednesday.
Read More »Army Seeks Consortium to Support $2.5B Spectrum-Related Tech R&D Initiative
The U.S. Army is looking to enter into a potential five-year, $2.5B other transaction agreement with a single consortium to research and develop technology platforms to support electromagnetic spectrum operations.
Read More »Palantir to Provide Integrated Data Environment for NOBLE System Under Navy Contract
Palantir Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Navy to support the service’s Naval Operational Business Logistics Enterprise family of systems.
Read More »Boeing, Lockheed Get $431M in Space Force Contracts for Satcom Payload Development
The Space Force has awarded a $240M contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and a $191M contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) to develop payloads to help the service branch secure military satellite communications. The two companies will help the new service branch develop Protected Tactical Satcom payloads for a family-of-systems architecture designed to provide anti-jam, beyond line-of-sight communications to tactical warfighters, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday.
Read More »Peraton to Develop Satellite Ground Terminal Prototype for Army; Stan Kekauoha Quoted
Peraton has received a 20-month other transaction agreement to develop, engineer and integrate a satellite ground terminal system to support the U.S. Army’s tactical space defense mission.
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