The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors, or PEO IEW&S, is conducting market research to guide its acquisition of assured positioning, navigation and timing services to warfighters. What Is the Army’s MAPS GEN II Program? The effort, called the Mounted Assured PNT System, or MAPS, Generation II,...
The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a potential $512.2 million contract to support the development, production, fielding and long-term sustainment of synthetic aperture radar/moving target indicator radar used in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Army’s ongoing transformation is reshaping how the service modernizes, ac...
The Space Development Agency has awarded $3.5 billion in other transaction authority agreements to Lockheed Martin, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman and Rocket Lab USA to build 72 satellites for the third tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s tracking layer. Lockheed is sponsoring the Potomac Officers Club’s ...
Orbit Fab has appointed Jeff Lints as chief commercial officer as the company prepares for its first commercial on-orbit refueling demonstration and deployment of its refueling spacecraft for flight qualification. Who Is Jeff Lints? Before joining Orbit Fab, Lints served as the founder and CEO of Fortius Metals, where he focused on commercializing a...
The Missile Defense Agency has issued a second tranche of awards under its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense contract, adding 1,086 companies to the competitive pool supporting the $151 billion SHIELD multiple-award vehicle, one of several contracting mechanisms supporting the administration’s Golden Dome missile defense ...
Potomac Officers Club, the nation’s leading GovCon networking events organization, is excited to confirm Michael Duffey, under secretary of war for acquisition and sustainment, as the opening keynote speaker for the 2026 Defense R&D Summit, taking place Jan. 29. Duffey joins Emil Michael, under secretary of war for research and engineering...
The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific is soliciting proposals for the development and fielding of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems capable of detecting and countering emerging threats. In a notice posted on SAM.gov Tuesday, the NIWC Pacific said the government will award multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity co...
Intel has appointed Robin Colwell, most recently deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, as senior vice president of government affairs in a series of senior leadership appointments. The technology company said Monday Colwell will be based in Washington, D.C., overseeing global engagement with regulators, policymakers and industry leaders and ad...
National security company GRVTY has appointed Tom Jackson, an aerospace and defense industry veteran, as chief growth officer. The company said Monday Jackson will oversee business development, growth strategy and market expansion efforts and advance the delivery of national security capabilities to customers. “As we continue to grow and stren...
Advanced wireless infrastructure is becoming as strategically important as artificial intelligence in modern defense operations 5G standalone enables network slicing, security and latency improvements critical for AI-enabled military use cases Integrated sensing and communications could offer a cost-effective way to counter drones using existing cel...
