Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. has won a potential $184.3 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to study combustion and propulsion technologies for potential defense use. ISSI will carry out research work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract at Wright-Patterson AF Base in Ohio and will receive $842,500 i...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a four-year, $482 million contract extension to provide fleet management services to the Canadian air force’s CF-18 Hornet fighter jets. The company said Thursday it will continue to help manage the foreign aircraft program, materials, data, operational software, logistics process and electronic public...
Raj Shankar, vice president of digital transformation & GTM at Salesforce, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the importance of data transformation and how Salesforce can help drive larger digital transformation efforts for its customers. In addition, Shankar also discussed how Salesforce is driving success for its customers in the go...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business has secured a potential five-year, $1.68 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modernization, activation and sustainment support for Total Ship Computing Environment infrastructure and mission systems of Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers. Raytheon Missiles & Defense will also provide no...
Steve Tolbert, executive vice president of business systems at CACI International, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the company’s position in the federal market to assist our government agencies in implementing the latest technology and modernizing their business systems. In addition, Tolbert discussed the changes that government agen...
The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a set of cybersecurity standards created in 2019 to fortify the Defense Industrial Base against the increasing threat of cyberattacks and protect sensitive, unclassified information shared by the DOD and its contractors. CMMC incorporates these cyberse...
TTM Technologies (Nasdaq: TTMI) has agreed to buy Telephonics from Griffon (NYSE: GFF) in a cash transaction worth approximately $330 million to expand its offerings and capabilities in the aerospace and defense market. Santa Ana, California-based printed circuit board manufacturer TTM said Monday it expects the transaction to be immediately accreti...
B&A, a McLean, Virginia-based information technology systems integrator, has partnered with cybersecurity software company Trend Micro to provide a set of platforms meant to help federal government customers improve their security posture through rapid threat detection and response. “Trend Micro provides our customers with a better way to ...
A Leonardo DRS subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $191.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the procurement of hardware and engineering services in support of Ship Self Defense System Technical Insertion 2016 effort. DRS Laurel Technologies will perform work at its Johnstown, Pennsylvania location through April 2023 under the initial awa...
Mark Esper, former defense secretary and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed a partner and chairman of the national security practice at venture capital firm Red Cell Partners. He will be responsible for overseeing investment and business development activities across defense, space, aerospace, cybersecurity and international affairs se...
