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Hegseth halves staff of Pentagon’s testing-oversight office
The move may reduce the quality of DOT&E’s second opinions, but may not affect safety, former officials said.
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NOAA keeps 3 incumbents for $250M coastal mapping contract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses this program to aid in decisions regarding flood risks and transportation, among other uses.
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Army prepping for Pacific conflict with prepositioned equipment, logistics hubs
Moving weapons, ammunition, fuel, and even water around the vast theater will be a huge challenge.
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Space Force narrows the field in $100M terminal competition
Three companies are tasked to develop prototypes of the terminals, which Space Force will evaluate for interoperability and fit into a future data transport network.
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CGI, Google team to upgrade FAA’s pilot alert system
The Notice to Airmen system gives pilots information about hazards and will become cloud-based through this partnership.
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Boeing says it can deliver Air Force One in 2027—if requirements are relaxed
The Air Force has already lowered security requirements so Boeing can move faster.
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Army awards $499M geospatial tech development contract
The Army doubles the pool of awardees for this new iteration of its Geospatial Research, Integration, Development and Support program.
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Anduril acquires communications hardware provider
This is acquisition number nine for Anduril since it opened for business in 2017.
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GAO says SAIC can still compete for command, control prototype contract
Lockheed Martin alleged an organizational conflict-of-interest at Science Applications International Corp., but an investigation by the Air Force found nothing objectionable.
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Pentagon seeks input on plan to streamline software authorizations
A new request for information follows a promise made by Katie Arrington to overhaul how the Defense Department runs its authority-to-operate process.
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Pentagon warns it’s not prepared for homeland drone attack
NORAD commander Gen. Guillot has signed a new “standard operating procedure” for base commanders to deal with drones.
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Army wants tougher, more mobile workstations for geospatial-intel
The Geospatial-Intelligence Workstation-Tactical program's goals include bringing capabilities to the tactical edge and helping battlefield commanders make better, quicker decisions.
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Apex, True Anomaly detail next steps after their Series C capital rounds
Both of these three-year-old space startups are looking to scale up their production postures as blueprints for programs like the Golden Dome missile defense system start to emerge.
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State of the Space Force 2025
As Trump envisions “our manifest destiny into the stars,” the Space Force is set to play a key role in America’s space ambitions.
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Lockheed's CEO reacts to Trump's acquisition overhaul orders
In talking with Wall Street, Jim Taiclet highlights how many of the regulations and statutes that have evolved over decades look poised to be "really scrutinized and reduced."
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SAIC wins $55M Space Development Agency integration contract
SAIC will take on systems engineering and related support work for SDA's emerging satellite network.
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Army picks Raytheon radar for Patriot system
The service used a special contracting authority to cut the selection timeline in half.
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Pentagon’s innovation arm looks beyond acquisition reform to speed commercial tech buying
DOD’s cyber verification process for software can be a costly chokepoint.
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Space Force's intelligence ‘marketplace’ gets funds to expand
Military units post requests to TacSRT’s webpage, and industry competes to answer them.
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Slingshot Aerospace secures Air Force contract to ‘fingerprint’ objects in space
The company is tasked with using artificial intelligence to analyze 4.5 million nightly observations from a global sensor network that tracks 14,500 satellites and other objects in space.
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