President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army general, to serve as secretary of the Department of Defense, Politico reported Monday. Austin would be the first African American to lead DoD if confirmed by the Senate and sources said his selection for the top civilian post at the Pentagon could be announced as soon as T...
TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) has agreed to acquire a Cobham subsidiary focused on providing antennas and radio systems for the aerospace end market. TransDigm will use existing cash on hand to finance the $965M acquisition of Cobham Aero Connectivity and expects the transaction to close during the third quarter of calendar year 2021, subject to regu...
During Potomac Officers Club’s Ensuring PNT Superiority on the Future Battlefield, experts across the private and public sectors will discuss how this reliance on PNT, like the Global Positioning System (GPS), has created an attractive point of attack which adversaries will increasingly target. To register for Ensuring PNT Superiority on the Futur...
Thermal imaging camera provider FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) is interested in joining a team to pursue the U.S. Army's Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program, Inside Defense reported Thursday....
The State Department has approved Taiwan’s request to buy high mobility artillery rocket system launchers, AGM-84H standoff land attack missile-expanded response systems, MS-110 recce pods and related equipment and services under three foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $1.8B combined....
William Nelson, director of Assured Position, Navigation and Timing (APNT) Cross Functional Team (CFT) with the U.S. Army, will give a fireside chat, moderated by Kevin Coggins of Booz Allen Hamilton, during Potomac Officers Club’s Ensuring PNT Superiority on the Future Battlefield Virtual Event on Nov. 5th....
The State Department has approved the Finnish government’s $27.2B in procurement requests for F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler and F-35 aircraft to help increase self-defense readiness....
THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards Air Force Adds 15 Companies to $950M Joint All Domain C2 Support IDIQ The U.S. Air Force has selected 15 additional companies as awardees on a potential $950M contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as pa...
Shaun Bierweiler, formerly president of government solutions business at Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), has joined information technology firm Riverbed Technology as senior vice president of public sector, GovCon Wire has learned....
The State Department has cleared Switzerland’s request to buy F-35 fighter jets, F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft and Patriot Configuration-3+ modernized fire units under three foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $16.23B combined....
