Sixty-six vendors have secured positions on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop approaches needed to build multidomain systems in support of the service’s warfighting missions. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio received 70 offers for the indefinite-de...
David Thombs, former chief strategy officer and executive vice president of strategy and business development at SI2 Technologies, has been named deputy chief technology officer at Antenna Research Associates. He announced his new role Sunday on LinkedIn and will concurrently serve as ARA’s CTO and VP of technology strategy. Thombs was instrum...
Sarcos Technology and Robotics (Nasdaq: STRC and STRCW) has established an artificial intelligence-focused business segment to cater to the demands of the defense market, and selected Denis Garagic, the company’s chief technology officer, to lead the new unit. The Advanced Technologies division will market Sarcos’ AI and machine learning...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) have agreed to jointly propose an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft platform to the U.S. Army’s Theater Level High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne – Signals Intelligence program. Leidos said Tuesday the partnership intends to equip a pair of Bombardier Gl...
The Defense Information Systems Agency named 16 contractors that will provide the U.S. Space Force, defense organizations, other federal agencies and international allies with satellite-based services. Satellite communication services and capabilities could be procured from the vendors using the $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity a...
Clif Basnight, a 17-year U.S. Army veteran and former vice president at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as VP of strategic technologies. He will lead strategic growth initiatives across the company and oversee market analysis to help identify business opportunities through product development and a...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary has won a $220.8 million other transaction agreement to build a prototype of high-energy laser technology for the U.S. Army’s ground-based Indirect Fire Protection Capability weapon system. Aculight will provide development, integration, manufacturing, testing and delivery services to the IFPC-HEL progr...
Managed security services provider CISO Global (Nasdaq: CISO) has agreed to acquire Chesapeake, Virginia-based veteran-owned endpoint security technology provider SB Cyber Technologies for an undisclosed sum. CISO said Wednesday it expects to close the transaction this summer and plans to add SB Cyber’s Checklight platform to the vCISO portfol...
Linda Zecher, chairman of technology investment firm C5 Capital and a former executive at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed CEO of IronNet (NYSE: IRNT). She succeeds former IronNet CEO Keith Alexander, who will transition to the role of non-executive chairman, in a move resulting from the cybersecurity company’s take-private deal wi...
Eleven small businesses have won spots on a five-year, $95 million contract vehicle for program management and industrial engineering consulting services to the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, according to award notices posted Wednesday on SAM.gov. The PMIECS indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is reserved f...
