Month: July 2023
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Army
Army To Begin Fielding New RVCT Training Simulators In FY ‘24
The Army will begin fielding its new air and ground platform training simulators in fiscal year 2024, which follows a recent $500 million production award to Cole Engineering Services Inc. […]
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Navy/USMC
Fourth Fleet Seeks Future Watchstander AI Tool
As the U.S. Fourth Fleet starts practicing operationalizing unmanned systems, it is interested in ultimately getting watchstander data artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help sift through the added data coming […]
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Air Force
USAF to Buy Small Drones for Counter S-UAS Red Team Training
U.S. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) plans to award a contract next month to a small business to provide small unmanned aircraft systems for Air Force counter sUAS (C-sUAS) training. […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Los Alamos Workforce Will Level Off at About 20,000 By 2025, Triad Official Says
The recent unprecedented expansion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory workforce will continue for at least another year before leveling out at around 2,0000 employees, a senior lab official told […]
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Business/Financial
Booz Allen To Pay $377 Million To Resolve Justice Department Allegations
The Justice Department last Friday said Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] has agreed to pay the U.S. government $377.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law by improperly charging […]
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Space
Maxar 300 Bus Completes Critical Design Review for Tranche 1 Tracking Layer
Maxar Technologies said on July 24 that it has gone through a Critical Design Review (CDR) of the company’s Maxar 300 series bus for the L3Harris‘ [LHX] offering for the […]
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Navy/USMC
Fourth Fleet Means To ‘Operationalize’ Unmanned Systems For Months At A Time
The U.S. Fourth Fleet intends to continue using unmanned systems in exercises not to just test them out, but figure out how to fully operationalize them in action, according to […]
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Congress
Senate Adds ‘Buy America’ Amendment For Navy Ship Components To NDAA, Set To Pass Bill Next Week
The Senate has adopted an amendment to its version of the next defense policy bill requiring that by 2033 certain components on new ships the Navy purchases be built entirely […]
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Navy/USMC
White House Nominates Franchetti As CNO, Paparo To Indo-Pacific Command
The White House on Friday announced President Biden intends to nominate the next officers to serve as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Vice CNO, Commander of Indo-Pacific Command and Pacific […]
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Uncategorized
Defense Watch: DoD Data Generation, Angry Kitten, No Labels, DeSantis on DoD EVs
DoD Data Generation. The founder and CEO of Scale AI, Alexandr Wang, told the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber, information technologies, and innovation panel on July 18 that the Pentagon […]