David Boland, senior director of product marketing at Wasabi Technologies, said cloud-based storage could enable government agencies to drive innovation by allowing their storage administrators to shift their focus from maintaining platforms on-site to doing more complex tasks. Boland wrote that cloud-based storage is more secure than on-pre...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure additional Sikorsky-built multirole naval helicopters along with related equipment and support services under a potential $985 million foreign military sales agreement. Australia intends to buy a dozen MH-60R Seahawk units as part of the country’s homeland defense and region...
Members of Congress want the intelligence community to invest more in commercial technology platforms and share data with the Defense Department as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act. On Sept. 30, the House Intelligence Committee passed its version of the bill that authorizes IC spending levels 0.5 percent above the White Ho...
The National Reconnaissance Office has adopted a non-traditional contracting framework to identify potential sources of commercial satellite technologies designed to collect imagery and data that can support the agency’s mission. Commercial radar platforms will be the initial focus area of its Broad Agency Announcement Framework for Strategic ...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its AI: Innovation in Homeland Security Forum on Thursday which gathered private industry and government officials to discuss how cutting-edge AI technology is shaping the nation’s homeland security priorities, goals and general strategy as well as the role industry can play in the future of countering foreign adversari...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a potential $362.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and technical services supporting the Evolved Seasparrow Missile and NATO Seasparrow Missile Systems programs. The cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only contract has a base value of $105.8 million and involves purchases from the N...
Sev1Tech has won a $47.5 million contract to develop a data transport-as-a-service platform for the U.S. Space Force. The Woodbridge, Virginia-based information technology company will aim to build and demonstrate the DTaaS prototype for the branch’s mission partners as part of the meshONE-Terrestrial program, the Space Systems Command said Mo...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has received a $1.1 billion contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command to carry out lot 15 production of F-35 jets. This award calls for the company to deliver six units of the fifth-generation aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps and another 10 to the U.S. Air Force, the...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Cybersecurity in National Security Summit on Tuesday to provide a platform for the members of the federal government, industry and the government contracting (GovCon) community to discuss the major initiatives bolstering the DOD’s cybersecurity as well as the opportunities for private industry to support the federal g...
Mitre has secured a $474 million option contract to continue operating the U.S. Air Force-funded National Security Engineering Center, which conducts research work in cybersecurity and other technical areas. The nonprofit will continue to manage the NSEC federally funded research and development center through Sept. 30, 2022, and will initially rece...
