The Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate has issued a broad agency announcement valued at approximately $500 million to identify potential partners that could research, develop, test and evaluate quantum information technology to support command, control, communications, computers and intelligence missions. A notice posted T...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has booked a potential five-year, $141.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture common data link terminals for installation on surface combatant ships. The service branch obligated $16 million at the time of award to procure Hawklink AN/SRQ-4 radio terminal sets, the Department of Defense said Friday. Un...
Engineering Solutions and Meadowgate Technologies have agreed to combine to establish a new entity focused on delivering hybrid information technology platforms and professional services to the national security community. Meadowgate CEO Tom Lash will lead the new company, which will provide technology consulting, systems engineering, product ...
Shareholders at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) have approved the proposed acquisition offer by Boston-based private equity firm Advent International and both parties expect the transaction to conclude in late April or early May, pending receipt of outstanding regulatory clearances and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Maxar said W...
The acceleration of technology development in the modern era has presented a myriad of new challenges that have transformed fundamental elements of the Department of Homeland Security’s mission. A panel of experts at GovCon Wire’s Defending the Homeland: Science & Technology Forum said Tuesday that DHS has embraced its own evolutio...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business will engineer the combat system of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers under a one-year, $308.5 million contract option. The funds will also cover miscellaneous items and travel activities that support work on the fleet’s mission systems and equipm...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) will continue to help the U.S. Space Force modernize and sustain a key military platform for monitoring deep space objects after the service branch exercised a fourth contract option valued at $145 million. The award comes after an L3Harris-led industry team updated a command-and-control center, telescopes and a pha...
Cybersecurity firm Forcepoint is looking to divest its government security unit for over $2 billion and is working with Citigroup on the potential sale as the company looks to focus on building up its commercial business, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources said no deal has been signed since discussions over the potential sale are still in...
A joint venture between KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Intuitive Machines has booked a five-year, $719 million contract to engineer systems for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Space & Technology Solutions will develop and test new space and scientific technologies under the third iteration of the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Se...
Healthcare delivery is increasingly determined and shaped by technology and digital platforms. The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in an era of virtual appointments, among other practices, many of which will likely remain indefinitely. But from a wider vantage, the larger trend toward digitalization means that government health agencies and private provid...
