by Emily Erhold | Jan 10, 2020 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management, was successfully installed on the F-16 fighter within 45 days by the US Air Force. It is part of an initiative by the Pentagon to improve...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 10, 2020 | BAE, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Policy - Procurement, Surface Ships - Other
River Class (click to view full) The UK’s forthcoming Ocean Class 90m+ Offshore Patrol Vessels stem from a shipbuilding sector agreement that the UK MoD signed with BAE in November 2013. Britain needed to find an affordable bridge-buy that kept its naval...
by Emily Erhold | Jan 9, 2020 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas January 9/20: CBO Estimate According to an estimate by the US Congressional Budget Office, it will cost $11 billion per year to maintain the aviation fleet of the Navy and Marine Corps at is current size for the next 30 years. A report published by the CBO...
by Emily Erhold | Jan 8, 2020 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas Ace Electronics Defense Systems won a $64.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders for the production and delivery of manufacturing kits, spare parts and first article testing for the hardware component...
by Emily Erhold | Jan 7, 2020 | Daily Rapid Fire, Electronics & IT, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration
Americas Bushido Associates won a $7.5 million deal for cyber threat analysis and reporting from the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). This contract is for forensic analysis reports and recommendations provided by embedded cyber threat forensic...