The US Navy has announced a series of contract awards totaling around $2.5 billion to nine companies for services to establish and maintain cyberspace operations.
In the 8 May announcement some of the companies contracted included Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, and ICF. The work will be carried out at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, San Diego, California, and is set to last three years, with two two-year option periods.
Should the two-year options be exercised, the total value of the contracts could climb as high as $6 billion.
Exactly what the companies will be doing for the US
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The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
Adarga’s Vantage information analysis tool is in service with the UK MoD and individual UK forces. It builds on the company’s Knowledge Platform which processes, organises and analyses open source material, as well as information held by the user’s military, security and intelligence services.
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