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WT 360: Defense One’s Lauren Williams on shipbuilding, counterdrone and quantum tech matters

Lauren Williams, business editor at Defense One, jumps in to explain Anduril’s shipyard partnership with the Navy. She also goes over the Army’s counterdrone tech agenda and how the military is looking at quantum.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force cannot fix pricing leak by leaking it to everyone, GAO says

Sharing leaked pricing with all bidders compounded a Procurement Integrity Act violation rather than curing it.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force Research Laboratory permanently deletes $10B vehicle

The lab decides instead that its industry partnerships "are best served by using flexible, agile, and immediately available acquisition pathways.”

  • By Ross Wilkers

Amentum wins $572M NORAD warning system contract

The North American Aerospace Defense Command uses this system to determine the nature of launches and attacks from adversaries.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force unveils first draft of $2B base security tech recompete

Air Force officials are setting up the multiple-award GUARD contract to aid the transition of the security systems to a modular open systems architecture.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Three tribally owned firms land $400M Air Force Pacific advisory deal

Cherokee Nation Government Solutions, SSE BB&E JV and KIRA Services will compete for task orders spanning Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Alaska and Wake Island through 2031.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Air Force eyes overhaul of PLM program as Siemens contract nears 2029 end

An RFI seeking a modernized approach to how it updates and deploys the software it uses to manage data across its weapons systems.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force leans on ESOP legislation to sole-source $992M contract

This contract is part of a Defense Department pilot program that allows for certain follow-on awards to stay with the incumbent, if they are fully-employee owned.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Leidos books $717M ISR support award with Air Combat Command

The five-year task order extends a partnership that started in 2019, with Leidos personnel embedded at more than 35 locations worldwide.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force picks 3 for $1.9B in aerospace program support work

The scope of work covers research, development, and test-and-evaluation activities.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force Research Lab picks joint venture for $499M integration support contract

The Space Systems and Hardware Integration for Novel Experiments contract is structured as a "cradle-to-grave" effort.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force Research Lab seeks small businesses for rapid innovation support

AFRL's Center for Rapid Innovation focuses on addressing urgent operational needs in 24 months or less.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force Research Laboratory brings $10B vehicle back from the dead

The lab's goal for the multiple-award vehicle remains the same: hire a group of companies that can help in unclassified research-and-development efforts, as well as tech transition.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Air Force wraps up awards for $866M advisory, assistance contract

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center hires four contractors to aid its work in looking at air, space, missile and cyber issues.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force eyes OTAs, agile acquisition for next-gen air operations command and control system

Kessel Run is managing the modernization effort, which calls for a systems integrator as the prime.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force Research Lab cancels $10B vehicle

Air Force leaders will reassess the strategy for acquiring research-and-development support from industry.

  • By Ross Wilkers

As aircraft losses mount, Pentagon wants a software fix to see through the fog of war

The Defense Department is looking to update how older planes see each other and absorb data.

  • By Patrick Tucker

Air Force seeks data migration solution for classified 3DExperience systems

This new market research effort focuses on air-gapped engineering environments.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Anduril: new factory will start making drone wingman in just ‘days’

The Ohio manufacturing facility is to open months ahead of schedule.

  • By Thomas Novelly

Air Force wants its acquisition tools in the cloud

The Air Force envisions iteration number two of its LaunchPad environment as extending beyond the current base of engineering users.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force Research Lab seeks more national approach for innovation

Lab officials give a first glimpse at how they want to expand on a pilot program for turning dual-use technology into operational capability.

  • By Ross Wilkers