DoD Implements Rule on Limiting Fixed Price LRIP Contracts
One of the Aerospace Industries Association’s (AIA) 22 bullet point priorities for the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill is to limit contracting officers in buying “not more than one lot […]
View ArticleSen. Warren Pressing DoD to Help Nix Russian Use of Starlink
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants a forthcoming DoD contract renewal with SpaceX for Starlink in Ukraine to have provisions to help nix Russian black market-enabled use of the communications...
View ArticleiDirect Nabs DIU Contract To Mitigate 5G Interference With Satellite...
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Tuesday said it awarded a contract to iDirect Government to prototype the company’s technology to mitigate signal interference by 5G radio frequency spectrum on […]
View ArticleDoD Industrial Base Office Wants To Enable DIB Use Of Artificial Intelligence
The Defense Department’s office charged with monitoring the health of the defense industrial base (DIB) is seeking public input on how it can enable the vendors, and their suppliers, that […]
View ArticleFirst 40 B-21s to Be Fixed-Price, DoD Says
The U.S. Air Force is to buy the first 40 B-21 Raider stealth bombers–out of a planned service buy of at least 100–through “fixed price options,” Defense Secretary William LaPlante […]
View ArticleRep. Banks Wants DoD To Consider Creating Panel To Revitalize DIB
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Wednesday approved a provision that would direct the Defense Department to study whether it should create a panel of stakeholders and experts to […]
View ArticleTop Democrat on HASC Readiness Panel Adds F-35 Data Rights Report Requirement...
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill would require DoD to submit a report on the impact of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] ownership of […]
View ArticleDoD Investigating Crash of F-35B in New Mexico
DoD is investigating the cause of a Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35B crash on May 28, just after the plane took off from Albuquerque International Sunport, N.M. The Defense Contract Management […]
View ArticleCDAO Awards Palantir Production Contract For Maven Smart System, Marking...
Marking a major expansion in the Defense Department’s premier effort to create greater battlespace awareness in near-real-time for its theater commands and key staff, the Chief Digital and Artificial...
View ArticleDIU Adds Three More UAS To Approved Commercial List
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday said it has added three additional unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from Anduril Industries, Freefly Systems, and Skydio to its list of approved...
View ArticleDoD Announces New Approach To Own, Leverage, And Scale Data And Analytics
The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) on Thursday said it is launching a new effort that encompasses the acquisition of the infrastructure and data it will […]
View ArticleDefense Innovation Unit/USAF Pick Four Companies for Weapon Prototypes
While companies like RTX [RTX], Lockheed Martin [LMT], General Dynamics [GD] and Boeing [BA] remain top DoD weapon heavyweights, the Pentagon is taking a step to move beyond the traditional […]
View ArticleHouse Defense Appropriators Again Generous With Funding Recommendation For DIU
The House panel with responsibility for funding the Pentagon on Tuesday released its proposed defense budget, providing more than $1.3 billion to the Defense Department’s unit charged with helping to […]
View ArticleGaramendi Highlights Upcoming July 24 Hearing on Nuclear Weapon Cost Overruns
Overturning the nuclear triad concept and reducing funding significantly for the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and the U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider stealth bomber and Sentinel...
View ArticleWill Novel Solid Rocket Propellant Mixing Technology Make the DoD Cut?
On Sept 18 last year, Rep Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) posted on X that he and Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel, had recently […]
View ArticleU.S. Army TITAN and MSS to Complement Each Other
The U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN), the service’s new intelligence ground station, and the Maven Smart System (MSS) “absolutely complement each other,” Shyam Sankar,...
View ArticleRoute Planning for Ukrainian Drones Key to Avoiding Russian Jamming
Nearly two and a half years after Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the countries are vying to see whose “observe, orient, decide and act” cycle–the late […]
View ArticleSenate Authorizers Want DoD to Lay Out C-UAS Strategy
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) wants the Pentagon to lay out a counter unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) strategy and to establish a counter UAS (c-UAS) task force. SASC would […]
View ArticleGAO: DoD Backing of ‘Innovation’ and Fast Fielding Yet to Pay Dividends
While the Pentagon has backed innovative approaches, such as Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) and commercial paths, to help speed fielding, the DoD efforts thus far are insufficient, the Government […]
View ArticleDIU Plans Dozens Of Solicitations In Coming Months To Spend FY ’24 funds
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday announced the strategic allocation for its $983 million fiscal year 2024 budget and said it plans to issue around two dozen solicitations in […]
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