Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received approval from the U.S. Army to begin the delivery of the initial order of 5,000 HoloLens-based combat goggles, Bloomberg reported Friday. Spokesman Jamal Beck said Douglas Bush, assistant secretary for acquisition at the Army, gave the service the clearance to start accepting 5,000 sets of the Integrated Visual ...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall highlighted the need for the U.S. to work with allies and commercial partners to ensure security and stability worldwide amid evolving threats, the service reported Wednesday. “When we say one team, one fight — industry and our international partners are part of that team,” Kendall, a three-time Wa...
Marc Parent CAE (NYSE: CAE) has introduced its new logo and brand identity as the company strengthens its mission of equipping individuals with technology platforms and expertise to prepare them for critical roles. “Our new logo reflects our heritage, this evolution, and our bold vision for the future, which involves us leaning even deeper int...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a contract from the U.S. Army to develop a prototype of a tactical ground station designed to facilitate long-range precision targeting by detecting and tracking threats. The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node will collect data from terrestrial, space and aerial sensors and deliver targetable d...
The board of directors at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has approved a cash dividend of $2.80 per share for the third quarter of its 2022 fiscal year. Shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 1 will receive the dividend on Sept. 23, the company said Thursday. The Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace and...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will maintain surface ship undersea warfare systems for the U.S. Navy and the governments of Australia and Japan under a contract worth potentially $291.9 million. The company will install AN/SQQ-89 combat system shipset hardware and perform logistics support work under the contract with an initial value of $24 million, the Depar...
NASA has issued a final request for proposals for a potential five-year, $719 million contract to provide multidiscipline engineering support services for the engineering and technology directorate at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services III is a cost-plus-fixed-fee IDIQ cont...
The Defense Department’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative is underway within federal agencies and military branches, following the release of the DOD’s JADC2 implementation plan in March 2022. One central component of JADC2 is modernizing the way mission partners and coalitions share information, especially as toda...
The Department of Defense is working to overcome international policy-related hurdles, data tagging challenges and training obstacles as it looks to build resilient mission partner environments and implement JADC2 on an enterprise level. These issues are becoming increasingly more urgent today as the tense geopolitical landscape continues to change,...
