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13 Even before the hull of the first new Constellation-class Frigate (FFG), USS Constellation (FFG 62), is laid, a cross-warfare center team is developing a digital platform to predict whether its systems are ready for its mission before it leaves port. That platform is known as the total ship Frigate Readiness Assessment Model (FRAM). Members of Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Port Hueneme Division (PHD) are developing and testing FRAM with input from NSWC Corona in Norco,...

The Program Executive Office for Aviation, working with Army Contracting Command, has awarded the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction Phase II project agreements under the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium Other Transaction Authority to Bell Textron Inc. and the Sikorsky-Boeing Team. These agreements will require the project agreement holders to complete an initial preliminary design for major subsystems and the conceptual weapons system. The...

US Army awards FLRAA demo and risk reduction contracts Primary tabs 1st April 2021 US Army contracts have been awarded to the two companies competing in the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition for Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction (CD&RR) Phase 2. The awards from US Army Contracting Command on March 30 comprised US$292.65m for Bell Textron and US$284.39m for Sikorsky. Bell is offering the V-280 Valor, while Sikorsky – in a joint bid with Boeing – is proposing ...

Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS Daniel Inouye Posted On The future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) departs General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard on Feb. 3 for acceptance trials. (Photo by SUPSHIP Bath) BATH, Maine – The Navy accepted delivery of the guided missile destroyer future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) from shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works on March 8. Delivery of DDG 118 represents the official transfer of the ship from the shipbuilder to the Navy. Prior to delivery, t...

The Defense Health Agency will soon release the final solicitation for its $1.4 billion Workforce 3.0 contract to emphasize innovation and the use of non-traditional technology vendors.

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Message : Required fields AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of the Navy is hosting the sixth iteration of its HACKtheMACHINE event from March 23 – 26, 2021. The competition, which is free for registrants, has $95,000 of prize money for winning teams and will be conducted virtually with its base at NavalX in Alexandria, VA. It is designed to foster engagement between the Navy and the public and private sectors who have limited familiarity with the military and are in...

Department of the Navy to host virtual HACKtheMACHINE competition Sixth iteration of hacking competition will be based in Alexandria, VA News provided by Share this article Share this article AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of the Navy is hosting the sixth iteration of its HACKtheMACHINE event from March 23 – 26, 2021. The competition, which is free for registrants, has $95,000 of prize money for winning teams and will be conducted virtually with its base at Naval...

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque-based engineering firm Verus Research won a four-year, $15 million U.S. Army contract for the testing and evaluation of high-power microwave systems, the company announced Monday. LinQuest Corp. subsidiary TMC Design Corp. will manage the Verus contract for the Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation. The new contract builds on prior work Verus has done for the Army under a contract it won in 2014 to design...

By   Theresa Hitchens on March 05, 2021 at 3:20 PM AFRL image of autonomous swarming munitions WASHINGTON: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is shifting the focus of its Golden Horde program from testing its own swarming weapons to developing a digital environment, nicknamed Colosseum, to test vendors bringing their own concepts. “What we are looking to do is beginning a phase of an open, collaborative autonomy architecture, and this government-owned reference architecture is really goi...