Photo Contributor: Tsuguliev/Shutterstock The defense industry is one of the world’s largest and most competitive industries. The U.S. federal government agencies under the Department of Defense are actively procuring defense products and upgrading existing systems with the latest technology to strengthen the nation’s military fo...
Doug Beck, a vice president of Apple and a U.S. Navy Reserve captain, has been appointed to serve as director of the Department of Defense’s innovation arm beginning on May 1. He will report directly to the defense secretary as part of a realignment of the Defense Innovation Unit’s management structure and oversee the adoption...
General Atomics, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have won positions on a seven-year, $400 million contract to develop aerospace vehicle technologies and integrated systems for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force Research Laboratory received 15 offers on the Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research program, the Depart...
C5ISR is shaping today’s battlefield. As the Department of Defense’s JADC2 initiative moves forward, connectivity, security and speed in the defense landscape are growing ever more critical to fighting and winning conflicts of the future. Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, revealed five of the top command, control, compu...
The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded TheIncLab a potential 10-year, $95 million other transaction agreement to develop tools for planning and executing missions. Work will focus on creating a software suite designed to help SOCOM plan tactical missions and automate joint operations processes, the Department of Defense said Friday. The con...
Lockeed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has secured a potential five-year, $305 million contract to produce an integrated common processor for the U.S. Navy’s ship and shore surveillance equipment. The company will provide a common suite of signal processing and display technologies to support vessels equipped wi...
The Department of Defense is working to adopt commercial technologies at a faster rate than ever before as the United States’ peer and near-peer competitors increase their own technological capabilities. This approach, known as a “fast follower” strategy, was outlined in the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which called for the DOD t...
The U.S. government’s technology pipeline can be bound up in years of regulations, requirements and confirmation. In the military specifically, the process of developing, prototyping, testing and delivering a tool to the warfighter can take years. It has left defense components scrambling for new sources of innovation, striving to speed the proces...
Donna Bennett, enterprise chief information security officer of the State Department, said that safeguarding information is the organization’s “top priority” and it has undertaken a “monumental effort” to fortify its cyber defenses and consolidate its array of networks to keep pace with the increasingly digital threat environment. Ben...
Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has booked a potential $140 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform repairs on the propeller system of C-130 military transport planes. The sole-source award includes $116.8 million in options and a firm-fixed-price pricing provision, ...
