Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, will deliver a closing keynote speech on March 23 at the 2021 Industrial Space Defense Summit, a Potomac Officers Club-hosted virtual event covering U.S. military innovation and partnership efforts in the space security arena. In his current capacity, Hill oversees MDA’s efforts to de...
The State Department has approved the Dutch government’s request to procure pilot training and logistics support for Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook helicopters under two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $315 million combined. The FMS deal for AH-64 helicopter pilot training support is wor...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded AB International Services a $177.6 million contract to help operate the service branch’s calibration and metrology laboratory complex in Heath, Ohio. AB International will perform work at the Air Force Primary Standards Laboratory and will receive $45,742 at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Wedn...
The U.S. Air Force has named Boeing (NYSE: BA), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to its list of sources that could support the service’s plan to rapidly prototype a stand-in attack weapon within 60 months. SiAW is an air-to-ground weapon system that c...
Redhorse, a San Diego-based government technology services contractor, has promoted Michael Rauseo to director of capture and Lance Orr to director of operations within its national security practice. Rauseo will utilize the company’s digital offerings in artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, DevSecOps and data science to capture new o...
Michael Maice, a former chief technology officer of the U.S. military’s Joint Communications Support Element, has been named CTO for ID Technologies‘ portfolio of Archon line of cloud storage and data security products. Maice will oversee the Archon product development strategy and the evaluation of new technology for potential integrati...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) will carry out mission support services at Dugway Proving Ground’s West Desert Test Center in Utah under a potential five-year, $60 million contract from the U.S. Army. The company said Tuesday it will support various chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive defense technologies and activities by pr...
Rod Bremby, senior director and industry executive for health and human services for global public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said health agencies should reevaluate the customer experience in this pandemic crisis by seeking customer feedback, identifying service limitations and working with interagency partners to come up with a unified appro...
Noblis has received a four-year $44 million contract to provide project management support for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ information technology modernization, data science and operational transformation efforts. The company said Tuesday it plans to assist CMS in pursuing projects to establish a cloud infrastructure, a disaste...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a one-year, $81.9 million contract to sustain, test and engineer MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The company will also provide technical and field support under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to ensure the company-built UAS’ readiness for military intelligence, surveillance ...
