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The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit concept papers on kill chain integration platforms needed to ensure spectrum awareness of emerging threats. Topics of interest include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance advancement, machine learning and artificial intelligence, enhanced situational awareness, improvements to existing Air Force/Department of Defense infrastructure, cryptographic operations advancement, geospatial analysis of social media, exploitation of enemy threat systems, anti-access/anti-denial environments and 5th to 4th generation communications.

Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a contract to provide a prototype for the U.S. Army’s network design experimentation effort and help the service modernize its mission command capabilities. 

Ashok Sankar, director of industry marketing, public sector and education at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), said agencies moving to the cloud to accommodate remote work should have granular visibility into data in order to generate security and operational insights.

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.

Monica McEwen, vice president of public sector at ThoughtSpot, said search-driven analytics could help government agencies enable nontechnical personnel to leverage the power of artificial intelligence in deriving insights from large data volumes.

AEgis Technologies Group, a national security and engineering services contractor, has acquired mission-enabling technology developer Excivity for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its intelligence and cyber capabilities.

Cubic’s (NYSE: CUB) GATR Technologies business has received a potential five-year, $99.4M task order to continue to provide engineering support services for the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Unified Video Dissemination System.

SOS International has acquired Denmark-based data analytics software firm NorthStar Systems for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to broaden its core service offerings. “We’re continuing to expand our strategic position by acquiring unique and differentiating technologies where we see the potential for growth,” Julian Setian, SOSi president and CEO and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said in a statement published Tuesday.

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has started to seek offers from U.S. operators of remote sensing satellites that can provide data analytics and imagery services, SpaceNews reported Monday.

FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) has purchased the intellectual property and tethered drone assets of Aria Insights for an undisclosed sum.