U.S. Army
Logistics-tracking contract for U.S. Army assets won by ORBCOMM - News
December 11, 2020ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. Internet of Things (IoT) provider ORBCOMM has won a single-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract totaling as much as $45.6 million with the U.S. Army for its Next Generation Tag (NGT) program, which will implement a common, integrated structure for logistics tracking, location, and monitoring of government assets.
Sensor purported to be 100,000 times more sensitive than currently available under study by Army team - News
November 05, 2020RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. A team headed by the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) announced that it has made a new microwave-radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors, a development that could enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
Cyberspace contract for U.S. Army Decision Support Division won by SAIC - News
September 21, 2020RESTON, Va. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was won a contract with the U.S. Army worth $185 million (single-award, cost-plus fixed-fee) to support the Decision Support Division for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) in the areas of space, space control, high altitude, air and missile defense, and associated cyberspace operations.
Vibration-based sensing system developed for land mine identification - News
August 19, 2020WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army has developed a new system for land mine identification that it says will reduce false alarm rates. Vadum, Inc., North Carolina State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Army Research Office all collaborated to develop the Vibration-ENhanced Underground Sensing system (Venus), the Army said
AI-enabled vehicles will usher in true human-machine teaming in the field - Story
August 04, 2020Autonomous vehicles in science fiction and lore – think Asimov’s “Sally” self-driving car, Arthur C. Clarke’s automatic cars, or Knight Rider’s KITT automobile with an attitude – are often able to operate independently and in concert with their humans. The phrase “no longer science fiction, but science fact” gets thrown around so much that it’s lost some of its punch, but in the case of the Army Research Lab’s work on artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled vehicles, it’s an apt observation.
AI, data-analysis framework from BAE Systems gets contract nod from U.S. Army - News
July 24, 2020SAN DIEGO. BAE Systems has signed an initial order with the U.S. Army under the service's Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Capability Drop 2 Program -- a multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract worth up to $823 million -- under which BAE Systems will provide systems enabling enhanced intelligence to see and better understand threats and other relevant aspects of the operational environment.
Precision-guidance system contract for U.S. Army signed with BAE Systems - News
July 22, 2020HUDSON, N.H. BAE Systems has signed a $33 million multiyear contract with the U.S. Army to further develop its Long Range Precision Guidance Kit (LR-PGK) for 155 mm artillery shells, which will enable the Army to take advantage of BAE Systems' enhanced antijam GPS-based navigation and antenna array aimed at improving long-range precision strikes in challenging electromagnetic environments.