Christopher Calio, president and chief operating officer of RTX (NYSE: RTX), has been elected to the Arlington, Virginia-based aerospace and defense company’s board of directors and will assume the role of CEO in May. He will succeed Gregory Hayes, who will continue to serve as RTX’s executive chairman, the company said Thursday. “Toda...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center has started soliciting proposals for the fourth iteration of a contract to acquire services to perform analytical and physical processing activities in support of cargo requirements. The agency plans to conduct a full and open competition for Cargo Mission Contract 4, which will include engineering, maintenance and oper...
Richie Obermayer, vice president of technical sales at GuardSTACK Technologies, said government agencies looking to accelerate digital transformation efforts should consider adopting 5G technology. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Obermayer wrote that 5G networks provide lower latency and faster speeds and facilitate the deployment of inter...
The Senate on Wednesday voted 87-13 to pass a defense policy bill that would authorize a total of $883.7 billion in fiscal year 2024 funding for national defense. The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act would authorize $841.4 billion for the Department of Defense, $32.4 billion for the Department of Energy’s national security programs a...
The State Department has approved a potential $255 million foreign military sale of L3Harris Technologies-built (NYSE: LHX) communications equipment to the government of Poland. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday L3Harris will serve as the principal contractor on the transaction, which covers the provision of multiband, multichan...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded $125.7 million in indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to four companies for interface test adapters and related equipment. ION, Tyonek Engineering and Agile Manufacturing, Westest Engineering and X Technologies will provide the service branch with a range of design and manufacturing services, including pe...
Executive Mosaic, the industry-leading events, media and executive branding organization in the government contracting sector, is pleased to launch the first-ever GovCon stock market tracker, GovCon Index. GovCon Index is an aggregate index meticulously crafted and tracked in real-time using data from 30 leading publicly traded companies within the...
The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office established the Project Pele endeavor in 2019 with the goal of producing a transportable micronuclear reactor. This energy source would be secure, environmentally sound and able to generate one to five MegaWatts of electricity for at least three years of full-power operation. Ideally, ...
The Military Health System is currently reimagining its digital health services, moving away from disjointed legacy systems that prevent information sharing across different components of the organization. A key part of these efforts is Genesis, a new electronic health record that when fully deployed, will unify health records for service members,...
Christopher Kubasik, chair and CEO of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), said the company plans to discontinue its merger and acquisition activity for the “foreseeable future” to strengthen its balance sheet and return all excess capital to shareholders. At the company’s investor day on Tuesday, Kubasik stated that the Melbourne, Florida-b...
