The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to continue its purchase of engineering technical and maintenance support services for C, D, E and F variants of the F/A-18 fighter aircraft from the U.S. government under a potential $1.8 billion foreign military sales agreement. Sigmatech, Kay and Associates, KBR (NYSE: KBR), L3Harris Techno...
D-Fend Solutions has named two vice presidents and one general manager to help the counter-drone technology provider accelerate its growth initiatives in the U.S. market. The company on Tuesday announced the appointments of S. Danny Rajan as U.S. general manager, Michael Langman as vice president of strategic partnerships and Brett Feddersen as VP o...
Paul Baltzell, vice president of strategy and business development for state and local government at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government agencies looking to counter cyberthreat actors and allow internal teams to focus more on strategic efforts should modernize their digital infrastructure with the adoption of an agile, cloud-based platform. Balt...
Space is undeniably one of the newest and most contested warfighting domains today. While commercial activity in space continues to rapidly accelerate the speed of innovation in the domain, new threats are simultaneously emerging and threatening the United States’ position in the global competition for space dominance. In response to rising space ...
Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), will provide F-135 propulsion system spare parts and associated equipment to U.S. and international defense customers under an $888 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. This award covers the procurement of parts; modules; packaging, handling, shipping an...
Leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense have been looking for a way to centralize their Joint All Domain Command and Control endeavor. Under this ideal state, communications and data sharing would be interlocked in a seamless mesh network that includes all six military branches and is functional at the edge: wherever a warfighter is active....
A business unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will update software for the U.S. Navy‘s Super Hornet and Growler aircraft systems under a five-year, $372.1 million contract. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will modernize sensor, instrumentation and tactical interfaces that support software blocks of the F/A-18 and EA-18G fleets, the De...
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority within the Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting comments on a draft solicitation for the second iteration of a program meant to advance the rapid development, assessment and commercialization of medical countermeasures. The BARDA Accelerator Network 2.0 program is anticipate...
Charles Hooper, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, has joined the board of directors at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). “Hooper’s wealth of experience will help us continue to meet our customers’ needs, both in the U.S. and with our U.S. allies,” Phebe Novakovic, CE...
Julia MacDonough, a 25-year military and civil space veteran, has joined Draper as vice president and general manager of space systems. She will lead strategy execution efforts meant to drive growth in one of Draper’s key business areas, the nonprofit research and development company Wednesday. Her career began in the U.S. Air Force, where she...
