Ursa Major completed the hotfire of the Draper liquid engine in March, a significant milestone in the engine’s development. The Draper is a 4,000-pound-thrust closed catalyst cycle engine that takes advantage of a non-cryogenic fuel to optimize storability, making it suitable for a wide range of in-space propulsion applications. The engine’s accelerated development pace shows […]
The Air Force Civil Engineer Center has awarded Phase II Small Business Innovation Research funding for Charles River Analytics’ Real-Time Assessment and Decision Interactive Toolkit, which is being developed to support critical U.S. Air Force security decisions. The toolkit, which uses hybrid artificial intelligence approaches, is designed to aggregate real-time data from different sources for […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will work with Capgemini Government Solutions to explore quantum computing applications in carbon capture and storage. The collaborative project is under the Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow program of DARPA’s Advanced Research Concepts. It will provide the agency access to the company’s global engineering talent to pinpoint […]
The U.S. Navy has expressed intent to leverage the U.S. Army’s data analytics capabilities via a new policy encouraging secure information sharing, according to Jane Rathbun, the Navy’s chief information officer. During the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Northern Virginia Chapter’s defense IT event, Rathbun highlighted a Pentagon memo facilitating the adoption of systems […]
The Marine Corps will begin testing an application programming interface connection tool designed to enhance data governance and share data within and outside the Marines’ cloud environment. In an Ask the CIO episode, Colin Crosby, the service data officer for the Marine Corps, said the trial will use dummy data to validate the API connection […]
The U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Leonardo DRS a contract valued at over $26 million to provide design agent and engineering services for the AN/SPQ-9B radar system. Leonardo DRS will deliver system engineering, software development, hardware design, installation, safety, testing, product updates, system upgrades and configuration management services for the radar system. […]
Herndon, Virginia-based satellite communications services provider iDirect Government has secured a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to develop a 5G co-channel mitigation system prototype to enhance combatants’ SATCOM efficiency and security. According to iDirect, its Communication Signal Interference Removal technology will provide a template for the prototype development. Anthony Bustamante, DIU’s cyber and telecommunications […]
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Melissa Dalton as Air Force undersecretary, eight months after President Joe Biden’s nomination. In her new role, Dalton will be responsible for assisting Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall in overseeing both the Air Force and Space Force, the service said. Kendall, a 2024 Wash100 awardee, highlighted Dalton’s extensive public service, […]
The U.S. Air Force will deploy Curtiss-Wright’s PacStar integrated solution, designed for tactical networking and connectivity in rugged and remote environments worldwide, in its Theater Deployable Communications program. Along with the PacStar solution, Curtiss-Wright will also provide the Air Force with its Commercial Solutions for Classified integration under a $16 million task order that the […]
Northrop Grumman’s upper-stage solid rocket motor has undergone a static fire test at the U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex to validate the product’s capabilities and ensure it can support flight missions. The testing event confirmed that the C50 High Performance rocket motor system, designed in a digital environment using model-based systems engineering, can […]
