BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business will provide Mk 38 Mod 3 machine gun systems and associated spares to the U.S. Navy under a potential $121.5 million contract. The Defense Department said Friday the Naval Surface Warfare Center will obligate $32,787,486 at the time of award from fiscal 2015 and 2017 Navy weapons procurement; ...
Within the proverbial dust cloud of the global fray, adversaries of all kinds abound. Could an antagonistic government take down our power grid or cripple our infrastructure through cyber assault? Are agricultural vulnerabilities more of a threat than a pathogen epidemic? Should the possibility of chemical attack be more of a concern to our troops...
The U.S. Army has awarded seven companies spots on a potential $172.7 million contract to help the service branch manage chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense-related materials. The Defense Department said Wednesday contractors will compete for task orders to evaluate, identify, locate, recover and dispose of munitions, explosi...
Multi-domain command and control means battle management systems are able to synchronize land, air, sea, space and cyber data in order to defend against, outmaneuver, and outfight adversaries....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8ccRdzQ1w Beyond ensuring the collective defense of its members NATO seeks to promote security through partnerships and cooperation. Since the early 1990s the Alliance has developed relations with non-member countries including former Cold War adversaries of the former Eastern Bloc. Some of these partners has since ...
Weekly Roundup August 07 – August 11 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson At the tail-end of May the Department of Defense released its FY 2018 budget request, while the Comptroller of the Department of Defense published the Defense Budget Overview, a succi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2017 ” Systems Planning and Analysis has celebrated its 45th year in business providing a variety of services in support of the national security and defense sectors in the U.S., GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Friday it started on July 28, 1972, with three employees working on technical ...
Leonardo DRS has received an $82.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to supply forward-looking infrared thermal receiver units to five countries under a foreign military sales deal. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will provide Horizontal Technology Integration second generation receivers ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $192.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for production support to the Aegis combat system modernization effort in fiscal 2017. The Defense Department said Thursday Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business will perform work in Moorestown, New Jersey; Clear...
In this episode of Voices from DARPA, get inside the full-spectrum engineering head of Dr. Troy Olsson, a program manager since 2014 in the Agency™s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). Listen in as Olsson describes progress toward vanishing materials that can keep sensitive electronic components out of adversaries™ hands; unmanned air ve...
