Defense tech startups raise $405 million in new funding rounds
Booz Allen Hamilton’s venture arm backs an AI radio platform developer and drone manufacturer in separate deals. ORAN Development Company This artificial intelligence outfit has fetched $45 million in Series A capital to aid its work on developing an open architecture platform for unifying communication, sensing and edge intelligence functions in radio networks. Also known as […]
Protests force the Army into a second redo of $237M soldier gear contract
Amentum has won the Product Manager Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment contract twice, only to face fresh challenges each time. For a second time, the Army will re-evaluate proposals for a $237 million contract to improve the protective equipment worn by soldiers. Amentum has twice won the Product Manager Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment contract. MAG Aerospace […]
DISA launches search for tactical data link contractors
The small business contract will run through 2030 to maintain tools that help military systems exchange standardized messages and data. The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for small businesses to work on a pair of specialized software tools used for tactical data link communications. The contract will cover work on the tactical data link configuration […]
The real danger of military AI isn’t killer robots; it’s worse human judgement
As Pentagon rushes to deploy LLM-based tools, research suggests they can undermine human thought and communication. The debate about lethal autonomy—core to the Trump administration’s fight with Anthropic—obscures a deeper danger of the Pentagon’s rapid adoption of commercial AI tools: they might weaken the U.S. military’s ability to tell fact from fiction. New research suggests that relying […]
Army wants better, faster defenses against chemical and biological threats
An updated broad agency announcement covers everything from Ebola vaccines to radiation countermeasures, as well as how to use artificial intelligence The Army has issued an update to its broad agency announcement looking for research-and-development efforts that can more quickly bring medical solutions to the field. The BAA was first issued in 2022 and the new […]
KBR loses $1.8 billion NASA contract challenge to Ascend JV
KBR challenged the award twice, but the Government Accountability Office upholds NASA’s choice of the the Amentum-Aerodyne joint venture. KBR has lost its challenge of a $1.8 billion NASA contract that went to a competitor. The company was the incumbent on the contract known as COSMOS to support command-and-control systems for space vehicles involved in programs […]
DISA, Carahsoft enter $970M VMware cloud software pact
The Defense Information Systems Agency and Carahsoft established the blanket purchase agreement to be a single point of entry for other Pentagon agencies. The Defense Information Systems Agency and Carahsoft have entered into a new five-year, $970 million blanket purchase agreement that brings together several contracts for Broadcom software into one pact. Carahsoft is an authorized […]
T2S books $600M DOD cyber contract
The Cybertron contract focuses on threat hunting, Zero Trust architectures, key management infrastructure development and artificial intelligence. T2S Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $600 million contract to develop and deliver new cybersecurity technologies across the entire Defense Department. DOD established the Cybertron contract to focus on threat hunting, Zero Trust architectures, key management infrastructure development […]
The hidden infrastructure challenge of the Genesis Mission
COMMENTARY | AI ambition without infrastructure alignment is just aspiration. When the White House launched the Genesis Mission, much of the attention focused on its ambition: a Manhattan Project–scale effort to accelerate scientific discovery through artificial intelligence. What deserves just as much scrutiny is the timeline: 270 days. That deadline fundamentally changes the nature of the […]
Navy launches recompete for $45M electronic warfare contract
Technical services work for this small business set-aside includes countermeasures and mission data systems integration. The Navy has launched the recompete of a contract to provide technical support services for electronic warfare systems and specifically the integration of weapon systems, electronic support and countermeasures and mission data systems. VSolvit won the work as a Seaport task order […]