Zachary Lemnios and Terry Halvorsen of IBM (NYSE: IBM) said the company has led the development of a marketplace in a hybrid cloud environment meant to secure the development and production of microelectronics for the Department of Defense and commercial industry. IBM established the Marketplace for Advanced, Rapid, Quantifiably-assured, Trusted Sem...
A new McAleese & Associates report noted the fourth quarter 2020 financial performance of large prime defense contractors Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX). Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese &am...
Lizy Paul, director of technical strategies for communications and networking solutions at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business, has been appointed chair of the National Spectrum Consortium. NSC elected Paul to succeed Salvador D’Itri in the leadership position for a two-year term, the consortium said Monday. ...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business will build sonar domes on U.S. Navy and allied surface combat vessels under a potential $64 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Crane, Indiana, division. Collins Aerospace said Tuesday its naval programs group will produce, install, engineer, deploy, inspect a...
The State Department has approved a request by the Egyptian government to procure Raytheon Technologies-built (NYSE: RTX) Rolling Airframe Missiles for ship self-defense use through a potential $197 million foreign military sales deal. Egypt asked to procure as many as 168 RIM-116C RAM systems in Block 2 configuration, guided-missile round container...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, will proudly present the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and prominent award in all of GovCon, to the 100 distinguished executives who have demonstrated excellence in leadership, innovation, ...
Six executives from the defense industry have joined the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s board of directors to serve three-year terms and support public-private dialogue on national security matters. INSA said Thursday its newly elected directors include Damian DiPippa, senior vice president and general manager of Perspecta‘s (...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will aim to demonstrate a space-based sensor technology for defending against hypersonic weapons and other sophisticated missile threats under a $155 million prototype award from the Missile Defense Agency. The company will perform on-orbit demonstration, launch and initial orbit testing work under Phase IIa of MDA’...
The U.S. and the United Arab Emirates have signed an agreement for the UAE to buy 50 Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter jets and up to 18 drones, Reuters reported Thursday. The F-35s are part of a potential $23 billion deal that includes the procurement of high-tech weapons systems from Lockheed, General Atomics and...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has won a potential $121.6M other transaction award from the Missile Defense Agency to conduct an on-orbit demonstration of a space-based prototype sensor designed to track hypersonic and ballistic threats. MDA received four proposals for the project through a competitive solicitation among industry participants in ...
