Since its launch in 2022, the Army of 2030 initiative has guided the service branch toward its modernization goals. Now characterized by Army Secretary and 2023 Wash100 winner Christine Wormuth’s recently announced six operational imperatives – see and sense farther, mass dispersed forces with combat first, win the fires fight, protect...
The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, or JADC2, has been a high priority for leaders across the defense landscape as they work to provide the United States’ joint force with a connected, unified network to accelerate data sharing and decision making. The Air Force’s response to the Pentagon’s JADC2 effo...
All of the four-star generals of the U.S. Air Force and the vast majority of three-stars assembled in June at a table top exercise that demonstrated various scenarios regarding strategic maneuvers required when carrying out logistics in contested settings and conditions. The service’s leaders saw it as a highly beneficial process that is nece...
A Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics subsidiary has received a potential four-year, $428.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to build prototypes of the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body system. Dynetics Technical Solutions will perform work in Huntsville, Alabama, through July 23, 2027, the Department of Defense said Monday. Army Contracting Com...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 11 teams from the commercial and academic sectors to kick off the preliminary phase of the Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing program. DARPA said Thursday the organizations will work on foundational research to help develop a center for producing 3D heterogeneously integrated mic...
Clif Basnight, a 17-year U.S. Army veteran and former vice president at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as VP of strategic technologies. He will lead strategic growth initiatives across the company and oversee market analysis to help identify business opportunities through product development and a...
As competition ramps up in space, the evolving domain has taken center stage among U.S. Department of Defense priorities. Ensuring dominance in this novel warfighting environment requires a number of new capabilities, but to keep pace with adversaries, they must be developed and deployed more quickly than ever before. Tasked with developing, fi...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will provide technical, intelligence, management and financial support services to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under a potential seven-year, $375 million contract. The single-award contract includes intelligence management, analytic, systems analysis, systems integration, cybersecurity, counterintelligence...
Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) foundry business has added Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to the second phase of the Department of Defense’s Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes-Commercial program. Northrop and Boeing will join IBM (NYSE: IBM), NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) and other RAM...
Semiconductor chips underpin nearly every technology, weapon system and digital capability across the Department of Defense, making them increasingly important for a wide array of government and military missions. However, the United States’ production of these chips has fallen in recent decades, threatening our technological standing on the globa...
