General Dynamics Information Technology has secured a U.S. Air Force task order worth $120 million to provide a zero trust cybersecurity platform for the service branch’s bases worldwide. GDIT said Wednesday the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts awarded the task order under the service’s Nex...
“The Department of War has agreed to invest $1 billion in L3Harris Technologies’ new business to expand the production of solid rocket motors that power U.S. and allied missiles. Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey will participate in a fireside chat at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Defense R&am...
Defense Unicorns has raised $136 million in Series B funding and reached a valuation exceeding $1 billion. How Will Defense Unicorns Use the Funding? The San Antonio, Texas-based company said Tuesday that the capital will support further development of Unicorn Delivery Service, or UDS, a portable, airgap-native runtime platform for packaging, deploy...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has announced plans to compete a potential $999.9 million contract to conduct research and development work on adversary system-of-systems analysis in support of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Cyber Command and other mission partners. Explore the latest research and innovation in defense and gain exclusive insights from e...
The Department of War administers the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, 2.0 program to strengthen cybersecurity across the defense industrial base, or DIB, and reduce supply chain risk from persistent cyber threats. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Cyber Summit, scheduled for May 21, will convene government and industry...
In January 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to build the Golden Dome, an integrated defense system to protect nations against ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missile threats. The Golden Dome will be a “system of systems,” combining different capabilities to detect, track and intercept threats from an adversary...
Bollinger Shipyards has secured a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $2.14 billion from the U.S. Coast Guard for the production of four Arctic security cutters. The contract covers design, program management, operations and maintenance technical data, spare parts and training support, according to an award notice posted on SAM.gov Monday. The award...
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors, or PEO IEW&S, is conducting market research to guide its acquisition of assured positioning, navigation and timing services to warfighters. What Is the Army’s MAPS GEN II Program? The effort, called the Mounted Assured PNT System, or MAPS, Generation II,...
The Space Development Agency has awarded $3.5 billion in other transaction authority agreements to Lockheed Martin, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman and Rocket Lab USA to build 72 satellites for the third tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s tracking layer. Lockheed is sponsoring the Potomac Officers Club’s ...
Advanced wireless infrastructure is becoming as strategically important as artificial intelligence in modern defense operations 5G standalone enables network slicing, security and latency improvements critical for AI-enabled military use cases Integrated sensing and communications could offer a cost-effective way to counter drones using existing cel...
