The Military Health System is currently reimagining its digital health services, moving away from disjointed legacy systems that prevent information sharing across different components of the organization. A key part of these efforts is Genesis, a new electronic health record that when fully deployed, will unify health records for service members,...
Around 2.8 million American Indians and Alaska natives from 574 federally recognized tribes receive healthcare from the Indian Health Service. At the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Healthcare Summit, Darrell LaRoche, deputy director for management operations at IHS, shared his top priorities for providing healthcare to indigenous communiti...
In January, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner, released his three lines of effort designed to shape the future of the U.S. Space Force. The third, partnering to win, focuses on collaboration as a driving force behind successful U.S. space operations. Both public and private sector space l...
The State Department has approved the potential sale of RTX-built (NYSE: RTX) MK 54 all-up round lightweight torpedoes and related equipment to the German government under a potential $300 million foreign military sales deal. RTX’s integrated defense systems division will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed transaction, which cov...
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s potential $582 million foreign military sale request to procure hardware and software from the U.S. government to replenish and modernize its RE-3A tactical airborne surveillance system aircraft fleet. The proposed FMS deal covers seven Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System securi...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing and supplying terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radars and spare components under a five-year, $321.27 million contract from Special Operations Command. Work on Silent Knight Radar systems will be conducted in McKinney, Texas; and Forest, Mississippi, through Dec. 31, 2028, the Department of Defense said...
The Department of State approved a proposed $2 billion sale of devices, equipment and other services to support a training program under the Australia-United Kingdom-United States, or AUKUS, trilateral security alliance for the Indo-Pacific region. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced Friday that the foreign military sale to the Austral...
Ursa Major raised $138 million at the close of its Series D and D-1 funding rounds. Explorer 1 Fund and Eclipse led the investor group that includes RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) investment arm, BlackRock-managed funds and accounts, Exor Ventures, Mack & Co. and other institutional shareholders. With the fresh funds, the independent rocket propulsion ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential five-year, $199.1 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide industrial engineering support services for the family of munitions used on the service branch’s Multiple Launch Rocket Systems. Army Contracting Command will obligate $6.5 million in fiscal year 2010 foreign military sales funds a...
The State Department has approved a potential $650 million foreign military sale of anti-air and anti-surface interceptor missiles and related equipment to the government of South Korea. RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business unit will serve as the principal contractor on the potential deal that covers the provision of 38 Standard Mis...
