Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to help the U.S. Navy modernize sensor hardware and software for Super Hornet and Growler military aircraft platforms under a $71.4 million contract modification. The award includes work to update sensor instrumentation and interfaces related to the anti-surface warfare technical baseline of F/A-18 and...
PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) and Amentum are expected to carry on with their planned merger after the Falls Church, Virginia-based defense and government services contractor did not secure an alternative acquisition offer during the go-shop period that expired Monday. Germantown, Maryland-based Amentum agreed to buy PAE in an all-cash deal worth approximately ...
Joey Hoskins, most recently the director of business development at BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), has been elevated to a vice president position. He succeeds Mark Barth, who was appointed business manager for a BWXT-led joint venture that won the Department of Energy’s $21 billion Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract in ...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will continue to provide a data management and decision support platform to Space Systems Command under a $43 million contract extension. The company said Thursday its Warp Core technology supports situational awareness and decision-making efforts at U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Comm...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support research and development work on renewable power. The supercomputer called Kestrel will support energy programs related to security, storage, community transitions, energy justice, systems integrati...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a $273.4 million contract modification to expand its support services for a new U.S. Navy radar system being produced to help the military service detect adversarial aircraft and missile threats. The company will provide laboratory generator support for the Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar and ...
James Geurts, former acquisition chief of the U.S. Navy and a previous Wash100 awardee, and 35-year Air Force veteran Joseph Reynes, Jr. have been named advisory board members of technology company Epirus. They joined the board as Epirus aims to introduce technologies designed to help public and private sector clients to defend against electronic an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 1, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a Missile Defense Agency award to participate in a program focused on the development and demonstration of a hypersonic missile interceptor meant to counter threats in the glide phase of flight, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 22. ̶...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business will continue to maintain military fighter aircraft engines for domestic and foreign military sales customers under a $447.6 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The Department of Defense said Tuesday that contract work involves recurring sustainment effor...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
