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...
Denver-based York Space Systems has acquired Emergent Space Technologies in a transaction that expands the former’s software development and mission design services for the government sector. Laurel, Maryland-based Emergent is a small business focused on developing software and guidance, navigation and control systems for military, civil and c...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) will produce 4,343 units of handheld, manpack and small form fit radios for the U.S. Army under a purchase order worth $196 million. The service branch placed the order under a potential 10-year, $12.7 billion Joint Tactical Radio System contract awarded to Harris, now L3Harris, and two other vendors in 2016,...
Washington D.C.-based private equity firm Willow Creek Partners has created a company that government contracting industry veteran Caesar Nieves will lead to bring consulting, analytics, cyber and digital services to the federal sector. The One 23 Group will serve as the core of WCP’s government services portfolio and operate with over 200 emp...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will provide enterprise technology services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a multiyear, $463 million contract. USSOCOM works with Palantir to manage large amounts of data using the latter’s software platform to support decision-making processes, the data analytics company said Monday. “Our par...
