Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Stefanie Tompkins is set to deliver a morning keynote speech at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Jan. 19. Tompkins, who took the helm of DARPA as its 23rd director in March 2021, leads the Department of Defense’s research and development organ...
The Department of Energy’s environmental management office has released a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $5.87 billion follow-on contract to perform decontamination and decommissioning work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio. The Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning contract includes support for the demolition...
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has named Deborah Fox, a 35-year defense industry veteran, as the new member of the board of directors for CTC’s wholly owned affiliate Enterprise Ventures Corp. She will work with six current EVC board members including Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of CTC, the company said Tuesday. Fox previously worked at BAE...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) is streamlining its core businesses into three segments focused on communication systems, integrated mission systems and space and airborne systems. “Our business segments will continue to lead market innovation in their focus areas, fueling advanced solutions for the toughest operational challenges,” Christophe...
Plymouth, Michigan-based optical technology supplier EOTech has bought Intevac‘s (Nasdaq: IVAC) photonics unit for approximately $100 million in upfront cash and future earnout payments. Intevac said Monday it also negotiated a six-month transaction service agreement with EOTech and intends to focus on the thin-film equipment market following ...
Peraton, a portfolio company of private-equity firm Veritas Capital, has secured a potential $343 million task order to provide a range of information technology services to the Transportation Security Administration, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. TSA formally awarded the IT Management, Performance Analysis and Collaborative Technologies II task...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Canadian Commercial Corp. a seven-year, $70 million contract to extend contractor logistics support to electro-optical infrared sensors installed on the branch’s AC-130 gunship fleet. The firm-fixed-price contract to CCC will include field-level repair, troubleshooting and operator familiarization training servic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 30, 2021 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will continue providing three international defense and intelligence customers with access to the company’s 30 cm-class satellite imagery after it secured $100 million in contract extensions, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 22. The company also announced a second commitment to gai...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2021 — A team from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has completed the system requirements review of the Next Generation Interceptor under a Missile Defense Agency contract awarded in March, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 21. The NGI team will now proceed to initial system design, additional...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2021 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will work on the development, test and delivery of two six-foot-long robotic arms to the Defense Innovation Unit for use during in-space assembly activities, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 21. “Robotics will play a key role in humankind’s further development of space, and Maxar loo...
