The State Department has approved a potential $256M sale of light utility helicopters built by Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary to the government of Guyana to support the country’s national security efforts....
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, received his seventh consecutive Wash100 Award for driving company growth through the acquisitions of Dynetics as well as L3Harris security detection and automation businesses. Roger Krone’s continued commitment to excellence in the GovCon industry has made him the winningest Wash100 recipient in the award...
The Space Development Agency is looking for a launch services provider to send 28 satellites to orbit in 2022 as part of a program to establish a space-based defense layer for missile detection....
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a potential $13.3B contract to build the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile system....
The U.S. Army’s aviation and missile technology consortium has awarded $29.8M in other transaction agreements to 10 projects with the goal of building a family of systems designed to provide mission effects for the branch's Future Vertical Lift helicopter program....
Daniel Gelston, a two-decade intelligence and defense industry leader, will begin serving as president of defense and security group at CAE (NYSE: CAE) on Aug. 24....
The CEOs of eight defense contractors wrote separate letters to the White House and the Department of Defense saying that the money sourced from DoD’s budget to help companies retain highly skilled employees during the COVID-19 pandemic should be replaced with new funds to prevent military modernization programs from being jeopardized, Reuters rep...
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded six companies positions on a potential $975M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services with mid-endurance unmanned aircraft systems....
Heidi Wood, an aerospace and defense industry veteran, has been appointed acting president of defense and security group at CAE (NYSE: CAE). She will replace Todd Probert, who will step down on June 26 from his role to join the U.S. national security community, CAE said Tuesday....
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 27 companies spots on a potential five-year, $950M contract to develop and operate systems across ground, air, maritime, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains in support of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program....
