As part of ABMS, Air Force awards Booz Allen $315M for next phase of TOC-L prototype
Booz Allen and L3Harris initially joined forces to create the TOC-L prototype in its first phase in 2023.
Booz Allen and L3Harris initially joined forces to create the TOC-L prototype in its first phase in 2023.
Having grown to 100,000 users worldwide, the Pentagon’s favorite big-data analytics system now needs the legal authorities and budgetary stability of a formal Program Of Record, officials told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
As her signature “Open DAGIR” initiative seeks to bring in smaller, innovative software firms, “we’ve got to be a lot more explicit” in contracting language to protect their intellectual property and data rights, said Chief Digital & AI Officer Radha Plumb.
“You don’t have to do everything,” said Bonnie Evangelista, deputy chief digital & AI officer for acquisition. “If you do a single piece and you do it really well, you can have a contract.”
With Advana, "we’re kind of victims of our own success,” a senior defense official told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview, meaning changes have to be made to "get to sufficient scale."
As the Defense Department and Congress strive to streamline clumsy Authorization To Operate (ATO) procedures for software, the Pentagon also needs more computing infrastructure to test and experiment with new code.
It's the company's first business unit focused solely on directed energy.
"As far as reaching out to kind of the multinational world and the federal space, we haven't yet, but that's something that's kind of on the roadmap for us to get to," Drew Malloy, technical director for DISA’s cyber development directorate, said.
With an eye on China, US military networks in the Pacific likely among first stops for Thunderdome zero-trust program after prototyping, DISA chief Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner told Breaking Defense.
Over the next six months, the Defense Information Systems Agency plans to produce the first working prototype of its zero-trust security and network architecture program that’s scalable across the Defense Department.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
"We made it clear when we stood this up that it is going to be an evolutionary process, and that we just stood up the bare bones in the first year — because it's hard enough to do that," Rep. Mike Rogers said. "And we're putting the flesh on the bones each year trying to mature it in a slow and pragmatic fashion, and do it right."
Companies like Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have already increased hiring, anticipating a reduction in its workforce due to the coronavirus vaccine mandate.
Ultrashort pulse lasers, which fire a trillion watts for one-quadrillionth of a second, are a technology too early for military use today. But that won't always be the case, says Joe Shepherd of Booz Allen Hamilton.