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Senate Votes to Turn $740.5B Defense Policy Bill Into LawNews

Senate Votes to Turn $740.5B Defense Policy Bill Into Law

The Senate moved to pass the $740.5B National Defense Authorization Act into law via an 81-13 vote Friday that overruled…
Biden to Nominate Kathleen Hicks for Deputy Defense Secretary PostExecutive Moves

Biden to Nominate Kathleen Hicks for Deputy Defense Secretary Post

President-elect Joe Biden has announced plans to nominate Kathleen Hicks, former deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy, plans and forces…
Lockheed Announces Passing of 34-Year Company Veteran Michele EvansNews

Lockheed Announces Passing of 34-Year Company Veteran Michele Evans

Michele Evans, most recently executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business area, passed away Friday at the…
State Department OKs Potential $4B Sale of AH-64E Apache Helicopters to KuwaitContract Awards

State Department OKs Potential $4B Sale of AH-64E Apache Helicopters to Kuwait

The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to buy Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) AH-64E Apache helicopters, related equipment and services under…
Vectrus Wins $883M Army Comms Support Recompete; Chuck Prow QuotedContract Awards

Vectrus Wins $883M Army Comms Support Recompete; Chuck Prow Quoted

Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) has won a potential five-year, $882.5M recompete contract to help the U.S. Army operate, maintain and secure…
Northrop Awarded $246M Air Force B-2 Component Manufacturing Contract ModificationContract Awards

Northrop Awarded $246M Air Force B-2 Component Manufacturing Contract Modification

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a $246.4M contract modification that adds production pricing for exhaust…
State Department Clears $104M Sale of Northrop-Made Large Aircraft IR Countermeasure Tech to EgyptContract Awards

State Department Clears $104M Sale of Northrop-Made Large Aircraft IR Countermeasure Tech to Egypt

The State Department has approved a potential $104M foreign military sale to Egypt of one Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) system…
Industry Execs Say Open Architecture Could Lower Defense Market Entry Barriers, Drive M&A PursuitsNews

Industry Execs Say Open Architecture Could Lower Defense Market Entry Barriers, Drive M&A Pursuits

BAE Systems and Dcode executives said at Baird's Government & Defense Conference earlier this month that open architecture and modular…
Brian Goodger: NIH Center Eyes January Release of Final RFP for $40B CIO-SP4 IT Support GWACContract Awards

Brian Goodger: NIH Center Eyes January Release of Final RFP for $40B CIO-SP4 IT Support GWAC

Brian Goodger, acting director of the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, said NITAAC expects the…
NASA Taps Johns Hopkins APL for Space Electric Current Research MissionContract Awards

NASA Taps Johns Hopkins APL for Space Electric Current Research Mission

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will help NASA study electric currents across Earth’s atmosphere as part of a potential…