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RTX cyber and intel business becomes Nightwing following sale
Apr 1, 2024 · The spokesperson did not name the buyer. Reuters previously reported it as private equity firm Blackstone. Nightwing’s leadership features RTX alumni, including John DeSimone, Steve Worley, Timothy Zentz, Jon Check, Lori Scherer and Ron McDermott.
US Air Force awards ABMS contracts to another 24 vendors
Nov 5, 2020 · “This creative contract strategy is needed to support the agile and fast-paced nature of this program. These Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts provide each vendor the opportunity to receive anywhere from $1,000 to $950 million total over the next five years for work in up to seven different ABMS product categories,” Air Force spokesperson Capt. Clay Lancaster said in ...
Cyber Command stands up planning cells at combatant …
Oct 11, 2017 · “These are planners that are now sitting in the combatant commands. This has never happened before. This is brand new stuff,” Craft said. Each head of their respective service cyber component command — Army Cyber Command, Fleet Cyber Command, Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command and Air Forces Cyber — also serves as a head of the cyber division of Joint Force Headquarters.
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US Navy awards three rocket motor prototype contracts - C4ISRNet
Apr 8, 2024 · The company declined to provide the exact value of the contract, but told C4ISRNET it is worth “single digit millions.” Ursa Major unveiled its Lynx additive manufacturing approach last November.The process uses tools like 3D printing to quickly build solid rocket motor cases as well as subcomponents for other systems.
How BICES-X facilitates global intelligence - C4ISRNet
Feb 11, 2016 · Nesting with the DoD enterprise movement. BICES-X is deployed around the world — the U.S. version alone is in hundreds of locations with an untold number of non-U.S. users accessing the central BICES-X backbone from other partner nations and …
National Reconnaissance Office awards five contracts for …
Jan 20, 2022 · Director of the NRO’s Commercial Systems Program Office Pete Muend noted in a media call with reporters that while the base contracts have low contract value thresholds to accommodate emerging providers, they were deliberately designed to be quickly scaled up at the agency’s discretion. The initial contracts are for a six-month period of performance, but have options to be expanded to 30 ...
The Space Force wants to use directed-energy systems for
Jun 16, 2021 · The Missile Defense Agency has explored using space-based lasers to intercept ballistic missiles in the past, and other nations have fielded ground-based laser dazzling weapons that can blind on orbit sensors. However, the Space Force has been effectively mum on what weapon systems — conventional or directed energy — it is developing to protect its satellites or defeat enemy satellites.
Intelligence agency takes over Project Maven, the Pentagon
The agency has been heavily involved with Project Maven since it launched in 2017. “It really started with this idea that commercial industry – Silicon Valley – had come up with techniques going back to, you know, 2008, 2009, when the sort of deep-learning kind of revolution happened,” NGA’s Deputy Director of Data and Digital Innovation Mark Munsell told reporters at …