WASHINGTON - Dignitas Technologies LLC,* Orlando, Florida, is awarded a $99 million firm-fixed-price, cost, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide lifecycle support for the Advanced Computer-based Training System II, to include updates and patches to Multipurpose Reconfigurable Training System 3D (MRTS 3D) training sites, acquire cybersecurity artifacts from MRTS 3D training sites, draft, modify, and maintain a 3D computer model, game scene development guide, draft, modify, and maintain the software development guides and human-machine interface standards, develop and maintain software architecture, networking, and the instructor operating station standards, develop and maintain the software development kit for use by other developers and develop and modify Curriculum products.

Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida, and is expected to be completed in June 2030. This contract was competitively procured with seven offers received. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity (N6134025D0005).

Source: U.S> DoD
Associated URL: http://www.defense.gov

COSTA MESA, Ca. -- Riverside Research and Anduril Industries announced a collaboration to apply Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) formal methods technologies to further protect Anduril’s Lattice software platform and other supporting capabilities from cyber attacks.

Formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for specifying, developing, analyzing, and verifying software and hardware systems. More specifically, formal methods mathematically prove that software code is incorruptible and will only behave as designed, systematically eliminating a class of vulnerabilities in connected capabilities that could otherwise be exploited once they come into contact with adversary networks.

Through the collaboration with Anduril, Riverside Research plans to develop a formal methods-based processes that Anduril will then apply to selected product subcomponents.

Source: Anduril
Associated URL: https://www.anduril.com/article/riverside-research-and-anduril-collaborate-to-cyber-harden-critical-defense-capabilities/

EL SEGUNDO, Ca. -- Pacific Defense won a $9.1 million contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop, integrate, and demonstrate an artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled electronic warfare sensor-effector capability.

The project aims to demonstrate distributed AI capabilities, including autonomous cyber-EW effects, on multifunction edge nodes using ONR’s Ubiquitous Edge distributed software architecture. The edge nodes will be built with a modular design aligned to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture Technical Standard and the C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards, enabling a secure electronic warfare software-defined radio environment that allows for rapid integration of new hardware and software.

Work will be performed by Pacific Defense in collaboration with Perceptronics Solutions and Carnegie Mellon University at locations in El Segundo, California; Nashua, New Hampshire; Fairfax, Virginia; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The contract runs through October 2026.

Source: Military Embedded Systems
Associated URL: https://militaryembedded.com/ai/cognitive-ew/aiml-enabled-electronic-warfare-systems-to-be-developed-for-us-navy