BAE Systems won a $49 million five-year U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) contract to develop, deploy, and maintain cross domain solutions for safeguarding the sharing of sensitive information among government networks, the company said Thursday.
The contract is called the AFRL Systems Engineering and Evaluation System Analysis Worldwide Cross Domain contract. Solutions developed under the contract will allow the secure exchanges of messages, images, and streaming video and audio data. BAE engineers are also set to work with AFRL to research and develop new tools to address future agency needs and bridge technology gaps, the company said.
Customers covered by the contract work include the Intelligence Community generally, the Defense Department, and other government agencies,
“We’re helping our customers innovate advanced cross domain technologies to enhance virtualization, boost data processing, and support the integration of machine learning solutions,” DeEtte Gray, president of the intelligence and security sector at BAE Systems, said in a statement.