Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on an Air Force command-and-control center contract award, the Pentagon's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and more.
SAIC has been tasked in part with modernizing the Falconer Air Operations Center, including optimizing for cloud computing, evolving data architectures and new approaches to development, security and operations practices:
SAIC secures $319 million contract for Falconer AOC
The Air Force awarded Science Applications International Corp. a five-year, $319 million contract to sustain the Falconer Air Operations Center Weapon System, adding to the business' portfolio of command-and-control contracts with the service.
The latest from our colleagues at Inside Cybersecurity:
Defense sector coordinating council seeks details on classifying sensitive data for CMMC suppliers
A defense industry leader says the Defense Industrial Base Sector Coordinating Council's recent exercise on the Pentagon's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program shows more work is necessary to determine how the department will classify controlled unclassified information and the required maturity level needed for defense suppliers in contracts.
General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have been awarded $975 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts for the Air Force's F-35 next-generation engine effort:
Air Force awards five $975 million NGAP contracts
The Air Force has selected five companies to field prototypes for the service's Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion program, according to an award announcement posted by the Defense Department on Friday.
The Navy has been looking at three possibilities for doing away with the aircraft carrier Enterprise:
Navy proposes commercial dismantlement for CVN-65
The Navy is proposing a plan to contract with commercial industry to dismantle and dispose of the decommissioned nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-65) -- one of three alternative disposal plans the service has been weighing, according to a recently released environmental statement on the project.
AeroVironment has sold the Army an uncrewed helicopter system:
Army awards OTA for new reconnaissance drone
The Army has agreed to purchase a vertical-takeoff-and-landing drone system from AeroVironment that will be tested as a replacement for the RQ-7B Shadow, the service announced Thursday evening.