The State Department has cleared Egypt’s two foreign military sales requests worth approximately $929 million combined to provide AN/TPS-78 long-range radars, COMBATSS-21 combat management systems to support the fast missile craft modernization effort and related equipment and support services. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency sai...
Christopher Calio, president and CEO of RTX, has been elected as the aerospace and defense company’s chairman of the board of directors. The Arlington, Virginia-based contractor said Monday Calio’s appointment will take effect on April 30. He will succeed Gregory Hayes, who will step down from his post as executive chairma...
Government services contractor Peerless Technologies has acquired defense firm Statheros for an undisclosed sum to expand its client base and capabilities in support of electromagnetic spectrum operations. In a statement published Monday, Peerless President Andrea Kunk said the company has leveraged over two decades of experience in systems engineer...
The State Department has approved Japan’s foreign military sales request to procure Standard Missile 6 Block I Missiles and related equipment worth an estimated $900 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday RTX will be the principal contractor of the proposed sale. Details of Potential SM-6 Block I Missile Contract Und...
BAE Systems has landed a $1.2 billion contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for continued provision of engineering services. BAE Systems as ICBM Weapons Integrator The Department of Defense said Thursday the modification to the initial $1.94 billion contract, raises the total potential value to $3.13 billion. The award is intended to extend ...
Jonathan Peppard, an industry veteran with 27 years of experience in capture management, program management and business development, has been appointed vice president of strategic capture at Akima. The information technology company said Thursday Peppard will oversee its expansion by leading efforts to capture new opportunities within the federal ...
The Space Systems Command has issued a request for information to determine the capabilities of potential vendors to provide the logistics sustainment support services for instrumentation tracking systems supported by the Instrumentation Range Support Program, or IRSP. Instrumentation Range Support Program Contract According to the notice publi...
The Department of Defense has awarded West 4th Strategy a position on the potential five-year, $1.8 billion Personnel and Readiness Infrastructure Support Management, or PRISM, contract vehicle to provide critical support services for DOD. The IT services provider said the award is for the Personnel and Readiness pool of the PRISM contract. Gregg Me...
Gil Herrera, the National Security Agency’s research director, has spoken publicly in multiple places about how, if a true, fully powerful quantum computer were built, it could have the potential to both drastically cut worldwide energy consumption but also, if in the wrong hands, handily dismantle the world’s economy. He revisited those th...
IT platforms provider Smoothstack has launched a new business unit, called Fedstack, focused on addressing the technology consulting needs of federal agencies, government institutions and other public sector entities facing tech and workforce development challenges. “Fedstack provides technology consulting as well as workforce solutions,...
