Cobham Ultra SeniorCo has released an update for the first half of 2023, highlighting performance milestones and other key developments across the company’s five main divisions and subsidiaries, catering markets in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Europe and Australia. According to its half-year update report on its operations, the defense electronics solutions provider reported a...
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Infleqtion Awarded Defense Slot in UK Quantum Catalyst Fund
Quantum information company Infleqtion said it has won a defense project award under Innovate UK‘s Quantum Contextual Artificial Intelligence for Long-range Correlations. The Austin, Texas-based company will partner with U.K. defense company QinetiQ in the Q-CALC data analysis project. The project, titled Quantum End-to-end Compilation for Combinatorial Optimisation, QECCO for short, is a three-year undertaking...
SAP NS2’s Procurement Solution Achieves ITAR Compliance
SAP National Security Services has achieved International Traffic in Arms Regulation compliance for its end-to-end procurement solution SAP Ariba, enabling the company to deploy the product on Google Cloud Assured Workloads. The Google Cloud platform is designed for running more secure and compliant software on the cloud environment, including ITAR workloads. Integrating SAP Ariba with...
Army Seeks Industry Partners to Prototype Software, Applications for FMS-ACES Program
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems recently hosted an industry day for its ongoing Foreign Military Sales–Army Case Execution System solicitation. During the Sept. 7 event, the program office received feedback and recommendations from potential industry partners and answered questions from participants. The Army said the solicited input would inform the government’s...
Yahsat Secures $5.1B Satellite Connectivity Contract From UAE Government
Al Yah Satellite Communications subsidiary Yahsat Government Solutions has secured a contract to provide satellite capacity and managed services to the United Arab Emirates government. The award, which replaces the Capacity Services Agreement and the Managed Services Mandate, is worth a potential $5.1 billion. Both CSA and MSM are set to expire in November and December...
Serco Secures $200M Tech Services Contract to Support US Navy Anti-Terror Efforts
The U.S. Navy has awarded Serco a potential $201 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technology services support for Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific anti-terrorism activities. The one-year base contract has four options of one-year terms each. According to Serco, the work will continue its life cycle sustainment support to NWIC Pacific’s Physical Security System-Enterprise Architecture...
Taiwan Steps Up Drone Manufacturing Program
Geosat Aerospace and Technology is set to produce Turkish-designed Jackal drones in Taiwan The company recently signed a memorandum of understanding with British firm Flyby Technology for the purchase, technology transfer and manufacturing of up to 160 of the unmanned aerial vehicle. In the press release announcing the MOU with Flyby Technology, Geosat said it would further...
Mavenir, Capgemini Lead 2023 5G Challenge Winners
The mobility team of Mavenir Systems, NewEdge, Radisys and Lions Technology won the $3 million top prize in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s 2023 5G Challenge research competition. A second mobility team comprised of Capgemini Engineering, JMA Wireless and QCT/Benetel also completed the competition’s Stage Four: Mobility challenge, but NTIA said it proclaimed the...
CGI Federal Extends Multiyear Digital Records Development for US Citizenship and Immigration Services
IT and business consulting service CGI Federal Inc. has secured a five-year task order from the Department of Homeland Security to continue the development of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ digital immigration records systems. Valued at up to $159 million, the award under the Alliant 2 contract vehicle’s Records Management Support Services task order...
SDA Awards $224M PWSA Support Contract to QinetiQ; Shawn Purvis Quoted
The Space Development Agency has awarded QinetiQ US a five-year, $224 million systems engineering and technical assistance contract to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a low-Earth orbit satellite mesh network that will deliver secured communications and missile warning and tracking capabilities to the United States and its allies. Under the firm-fixed price contract, QinetiQ...