Cubic to Provide Split Radios For Navy’s Common Data Link System Cubic has been awarded a $1 million contract by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific to deliver split radio subsystems in support of the U.S. Navy‘s AN/USQ-167 Common Data Link system…

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GAO Finds Incomplete Historical Data on Canceled DoD Solicitations The Government Accountability Office has found incomplete historical data available from government sources to analyze the Defense Department‘s canceled solicitations. GAO said Wednesday DoD officials indicated the department does not track data on canceled solicitations and that data available on the Federal Business Opportunities portal is not in a format suitable for trend analysis…

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Ionic Security Joins DHS Internet of Things System Security Initiative Ionic Security has received $119,000 in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to help develop new approaches for DHS to secure and monitor Internet of Things systems and carry out detection functions…

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CBO: DoD Could Transfer 80K Military Posts to Civilian Jobs A Congressional Budget Office report estimates that approximately 80,000 active-duty positions could be replaced with federal civilian jobs if all military branches “use the same mix of the service branch with the smallest percentage of military personnel…

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DARPA Taps CPI to Develop New Vacuum Electron Device Communications & Power Industries has landed a potential $13 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the first phase of a program to invest in the development of new approaches to make vacuum electronics…

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NIST Awards Tech R&D Grants to 19 Small Businesses The National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen 19 small businesses to receive grants worth a combined $3.3 million to research and develop a wide range of technology platforms. NIST chose the companies based on their submitted R&D proposals that seek to address advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, biomanufacturing, cyber-physical, technology transfer and advanced sensing for manufacturing challenges, the Commerce Department said Tuesday…

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Army Demos Fuel Reduction Tech to Power Base Camps The U.S. Army has demonstrated a set of power generation systems that work to reduce fuel consumption during an integrated exercise at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. The service branch said Thursday the exercise ran from May through June 17 at Fort Devens’ Base Camp Integration Laboratory as part of the Sustainability Logistics Basing — Science Technology Objective Demonstration that seeks to reduce fuel, water resupply demand and waste generation at small base camps…

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DLA’s Insider Threat Program Fully Operational The Defense Logistics Agency established a “fully operational” insider-threat program five months ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline for all Defense Department components to develop and implement measures against security threats posed by employees…

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AFRL’s Kristen Schario Nabs DOD Tech Transfer Achievement Award Kristen Schario, director of research and technology applications for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s aerospace systems directorate, has received the Defense Department‘s 2016 George Linsteadt Technology Transfer Achievement Award…

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Marine Corps F-35 Pair to Fly at Farnborough Airshow A pair of U.S. Marine Corps F-35 fighter jets will perform at the week-long Farnborough International Airshow and conduct practice runs for the Royal International Air Tattoo, Defense News reported Tuesday…

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