Arlington Capital Partners’ portfolio company, AEgis Technologies Group has announced the acquisition of partner and sUAS manufacturer EMRC Heli to expand AEgis’ offerings, the company announced on Wednesday.
Read More »Army Expanding Efforts to Deploy Next-Gen Munitions
Lt. Col. Steven Power, product manager for individual weapons at the U.S. Army, said the service is working on fielding next-generation munitions during a National Defense Industrial Association event, National Defense Magazine reported Friday.
Read More »DIA Works on New Tool to Help Military Utilize Big Data
The Defense Intelligence Agency is developing a new data analytics tool to help federal analysts and planners better collect and analyze big data for intelligence and understand operations of adversaries. The Machine-Assisted Analytic Rapid-Repository System utilizes cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to modernize existing military databases, DIA said Thursday.
Read More »GAO: DoD Tech Acquisition Costs Increased Despite Major Reforms
The Government Accountability Office found that the Pentagon continues increasing its spending on new weapons capabilities despite recent major acquisition reforms aiming to limit cost growth in the agency’s modernization efforts. GAO issued Tuesday its annual assessment of the Department of Defense’s tech spending in the past two years.
Read More »Navy Planning to Develop Multi-Domain Offensive Strike Missiles
The U.S. Navy issued a written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee stating plans to integrate multi-domain capabilities into its next-generation offensive missiles, USNI News reported Monday. The Navy’s Offensive Missile Strategy succeeds the Cruise Missile Strategy and includes non-nuclear offensive strike missiles with a capacity of over 50 nautical miles.
Read More »Robert Work on DoD’s Use of AI in Weapons Development
Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, said DoD is “absolutely unapologetic” about efforts to advance the development of artificial intelligence-based weapons, Nextgov reported Wednesday. “If we’re going to succeed against a competitor like China that’s all in on this competition … we’re going to have to grasp the inevitability of AI,” Work said Wednesday at an AFCEA event.
Read More »Maj. Audricia Harris: DoD Works to Strengthen Cyber Defense Posture
Maj. Audricia Harris, a spokesperson for the Defense Department, has said that DoD takes national security threats seriously and works to update its cyber defense approaches, CNN reported Tuesday.
Read More »GAO: Sustained Momentum in Identifying, Implementing Initiatives Key to Uphold Weapon System Cybersecurity
Sustained efforts to develop and implement initiatives to address weapon system cybersecurity challenges are needed to update the Defense Department’s understanding of how to build more secure military tools, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Read More »Report: Navy Needs to Control Maintenance Costs for Weapons Systems
A panel of military and legislative leaders and an analyst have said the U.S. Navy needs to control long-term costs for maintaining and modernizing weapon systems as the service adopts new acquisition processes, USNI News reported Friday.
Read More »GAO: DoD Lacks Data to Manage Single Source of Supply Risks
The Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to provide complete information on risks associated with the procurement of certain materials from only one source of supply. GAO said in a report published Thursday that DoD’s 2016 report on single sources of supply did not include two of …
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