Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a five-year, $464.4 million contract to operate and sustain communications hardware for the U.S. Air Force’s E-11A aircraft. The company will perform maintenance work on the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system, components and ancillary equipment under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quant...
Jill Singer, vice president of the national security and defense segment at AT&T (NYSE: T), said the Intelligence Community needs to advance network modernization to address rising cybersecurity risks and near-peer threats and effectively carry out their missions. Singer told The Cipher Brief in an interview posted Tuesday that IC agencies looki...
The Department of Defense plans to add requirements to National Security Space Launch program contracts in a move to address Chinese and Russian interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. In a briefing to potential vendors of the upcoming contracting round, DOD said the next generation of rockets designed for launching spy satellites sh...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, forecasts that inflation and the near-term rollout of fiscal 2023 government funds will drive a favorable contracting landscape in the coming year, FCW reported Monday. Plexico noted the $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations package, Infrast...
Canada will provide Ukraine with a medium-range air defense system Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will build under an approximately $302 million purchase deal between the North American country and the U.S. The National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System donation is the latest in Canada’s military assistance to Ukraine and marks the fir...
Space is undeniably the most rapidly growing and evolving domain in the modern era, and it’s quickly becoming the most contested, too. In response to concerns that the United States’ global competitors are accelerating their developments in space, Pentagon leaders are looking at ways to inject more speed and resilience into the space procurement...
Joe Miller began his career serving in the U.S. Navy on a fast-attack submarine where he was first educated about the fundamentals of nuclear power. After finishing his time in the Navy, the former serviceman worked at a shipyard building submarines and quickly became interested in high-technology industries. Miller joined nuclear component and fuel...
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bipartisan bill that seeks to protect U.S. intellectual property by imposing economic penalties on companies and individuals involved in IP theft. Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., introduced the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act, which requires within six months a con...
James DeVaul, formerly a federal advisory partner at KPMG, has been appointed director of federal business at information technology services provider Bulletproof. The nearly 30-year federal market veteran will support Bulletproof’s growth efforts within the sector, the GLI company said Thursday. While at KPMG, DeVaul helped craft the firmR...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense business will manufacture hundreds of main hull structures for the Israeli defense forces’ Eitan armored personnel carrier fleet under a contract worth more than $100 million. Israel’s defense ministry expects the delivery of initial hulls to occur within an 18-month period to support the production of...
