Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received $1.5 billion in prototype agreements from the Space Development Agency to develop and operate 72 Beta satellites for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA said Monday the PWSA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Beta prototype sat...
An HII (NYSE: HII) division will help the U.S. Air Force manage its bombers portfolio under a five-year, $138 million task order. HII Mission Technologies will provide advisory and assistance services to the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s directorate responsible for modernizing and sustaining bomber systems, the company said Mon...
The State Department has approved Australia’s request to procure up to 22 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers and related equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $975 million foreign military sale agreement. The proposed FMS transaction includes unitary and alternative warhead missile pods for the Guided Multiple ...
The Defense Logistics Agency has released a solicitation for the fourth iteration of a contracting vehicle that would provide for research and development efforts in various agency mission-specific areas. According to the SAM.gov notice, the Emergent IV broad agency announcement will have a potential $125 million ceiling value for R&D program fo...
The U.S. intelligence community is self-evidently one of the most secretive, secure aspects of the federal government, charged with collecting, processing and acting upon highly sensitive information. Thus, IC officials have to be extremely careful about how they evolve their information technology infrastructure and rigorously vet any new tools the...
BAE Systems has agreed to acquire Ball’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business for approximately $5.55 billion as part of efforts to accelerate the British defense contractor’s space market strategy and expand its technology offerings for the U.S. government. “This marquee acquisition would advance our company’s position in some of the fastest...
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget have issued a memorandum outlining the current administration’s research and development priorities to guide federal agencies as they formulate their budget submissions for fiscal year 2025. One of the multiagency R&D priorities is advancing trustwo...
The U.S. Space Force has started to solicit information on technical approaches and concepts that could be used to facilitate the integration of government payloads onto a space vehicle without the need for major modifications. The service has provided information on two space vehicle variants meant to address the requirements of two separate missio...
Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
High Point Aerotechnologies has made a series of appointments to its leadership team following the full integration of Liteye Systems and Black Sage Technologies into its business operations. Black Sage CEO Al White, President Ann Wood and Chief Financial Officer Creighton Bowsher will retain their position titles at the Boise, Idaho-headquartered a...
