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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNavy Seeks Info For More Triton USV Apps And Tech
The Navy issued a market survey late last month for information on sources able to provide support to integrate new technologies and applications onto the Ocean Aero Triton Autonomous Underwater […]
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Business/FinancialShield AI Adds $300 Million In Venture Funding To Deploy AI Pilot On More Aircraft
Shield AI last Friday said it has raised an additional $300 million in venture capital that will be used to accelerate the deployment of its artificial intelligence pilot software on […]
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SpaceFederal Government Should Financially Protect Commercial Space Systems, Former NGA Official Says
A former official at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) recently said that the federal government should offer a degree of financial protection for commercial space systems. “We have to have […]
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Air ForceRTX Receives Nearly $408 Million for HACM Experiment with Australia
The U.S. Air Force has awarded RTX [RTX]’s missiles and defense business in Tucson, Ariz., a nearly $408 million contract for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile Southern Cross Integrated Flight […]
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ArmyLeidos Delivers First Enduring Shield Launchers To Army
Shortly after completing a successful test firing of a new ground-based air defense system, Leidos [LDOS] on Wednesday delivered the first set of Enduring Shield launchers to the Army, which […]
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Business/FinancialCarlyle, Insight Take Majority Stake In Supply Chain Management Company Exiger
Exiger on Wednesday said the company has agreed to receive a majority investment from the private equity firm Carlyle [GG] and Insight Partners, which invests in software and high-technology companies, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDNFSB Wants NNSA Response To Worker Concerns By Jan. 19
A federal nuclear safety watchdog wants the National Nuclear Security Administration to respond to concerns over worker safety at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility in just over a month. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNDAA Would Bar Plutonium-Cleanup Expansion Until LANL Can Make 30 Pits Per Year
The Los Alamos National Laboratory would be barred from expanding equipment needed to dispose of surplus plutonium until the lab certifies it can produce at least 30 nuclear weapon cores […]
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Air ForceYates Electrospace Working on ‘Contested Logistics’ Autonomous Delivery Drone
California’s Yates Electrospace Corp. said on Dec. 18 that the Department of the Air Force’s AFWERX innovation arm has awarded the company a small business innovation research contract for the […]
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Navy/USMCBollinger Delivers First Berthing Barge After Acquiring VT Halter Marine
Bollinger Shipyards delivered the first Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) Class berthing and messing barge (APL-71) to the Navy last week, the first such craft since the company acquired contract winner […]
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