Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2025 Navy budget request that the service branch will spend more on directed energy weapons, such as lasers, to reduce the cost of counter-drone and anti-missile solutions. Del Toro, 2024 Wash100 winner and a past Potomac Officers […]
BlueHalo will leverage learnings from the deployments of its Locust Laser Weapon System in a $95.4 million contract for advanced directed energy prototype development that it won under the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Laser Technology Research Development and Optimization program. According to the company, its tasks will focus on advancing the performance […]
Lockheed Martin announced that it has booked a $756 million contract to provide additional battery equipment to the U.S. Army’s ground-based Long Range Hypersonic Weapon system. Steve Layne, vice president of Lockheed’s Hypersonic Strike Weapons Systems, expressed the company’s pride in continuing the work on developing U.S. hypersonic strike capability, noting that the contract will […]
Two Canadian companies have received a total of $14.9 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to ensure resilient cobalt and graphite supply for the North American nations. Awarded through the Defense Production Act Investment program, Fortune Minerals Ltd. received $6.5 million, which will help complete a feasibility study of the company’s NICO Project, a […]
The Department of Defense has awarded $20 million to South32 through the Defense Production Act Investment Program, supporting the latter’s Hermosa Project in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, to produce battery-grade manganese sustainably. The initiative aligns with the 2024 National Defense Industrial Strategy to enhance domestic production and strengthen the industry’s supply chain resilience, Defense .gov […]
The Department of Defense has awarded EchoStar an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling value of $2.3 billion to provide 5G wireless services and devices to the DOD and other federal agencies. The contract, awarded through the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command’s Spiral 4 purchasing program, will be fulfilled by EchoStar subsidiaries Hughes Network Systems and […]
The U.S. Army has rolled out the first phase of the Global Commercial Solutions for Classified program. The Global Secure Network program will deploy a secure internet protocol router-consolidated security suite, providing service members access to classified networks regardless of location. The service branch aims to have the program operational by fiscal year 2025. The […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $54 million contract to BAE Systems to build an airborne radio frequency decoy system capable of protecting fighter jets from adversarial attacks. The dual-band decoy, an RF self-protection jammer based on the AN/ALE-55 fiber-optic towed decoy, will feature custom integrated circuits; reduced size, weight and power; and “a towed […]
Leidos and Elroy Air have received approval to demonstrate their autonomous Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle-Expeditionary Logistics prototype for the Marine Corps. An initiative of the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems program office, MARV-EL is an unmanned logistics solution aimed at offering Marines a reliable way to receive supplies in situations where […]
The U.S. Air Force will soon complete its Joint Simulation Environment next-generation training and test facility. Located at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, the JSE received its core software after the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division recently completed its installation. The core software comes with digital elements that offer simulated variables such […]
