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The Department of Defense is working to adopt commercial technologies at a faster rate than ever before as the United States’ peer and near-peer competitors increase their own technological capabilities. This approach, known as a “fast follower” strategy, was outlined in the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which called for the DOD t...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) reported fiscal year 2022 fourth-quarter sales of $3.7 billion, up 6 percent from the prior-year period, and saw its full-year revenue climb 5 percent to $14.4 billion. The defense and information technology services contractor said Tuesday non-GAAP diluted earnings per share rose 17 percent for the October-December period to $1....
DCS subsidiary Infoscitex has promoted Mike Gilkey from vice president and division manager of air and space operations, to executive VP and manager of the entire sector. The company said Thursday that Gilkey will be responsible for its human systems and modeling, simulation and analysis divisions, as well as the sensors and intelligence department....
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a $334 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of a larger class air-breathing hypersonic system that will employ a standardized payload interface to carry out multiple missions. A Leidos-led team will aim to design a vehicle powered by a scramjet engine and capable of traveling...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a five-year, $405.7 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide engineering services in support of intelligence activities at the Department of Defense and intelligence community centers and satellite branches. The company will also perform operational technical work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee t...
The Air Force Research Laboratory is working with cloud service providers and technology companies to gain access to platforms that would offer the lab visibility into its information infrastructure while managing the privacy and security of data, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. James Sumpter, chief enterprise architect at AFRL, told the pu...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Riverside Research have won contracts worth $79.2 million combined to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force. The contractors will research, build and demonstrate component prototypes to further develop open architecture approaches and standards for existing and future weapons systems of the Air Force...
Advanced Space, a Westminster, Colorado-based aerospace company, has secured a $72 million contract to support the development of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Oracle spacecraft program. Work under the contract includes demonstrating space situational awareness and detecting and tracking objects in lunar region, AFRL said Thursday. Form...
HII’s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division will conduct technical research and analysis for the Air Force Research Laboratory under a $70 million task order. The award includes IT services such as data analytics, modeling and simulation and system engineering to support AFRL’s information technology modernization efforts involving artif...
Spectral Energies has won an eight-year, $184.3 million contract to conduct studies for the turbine engine division under the Air Force Research Laboratory’s aerospace systems directorate. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the company will aim to advance propulsion technology for DOD platforms through the Innovative Combustion and Propu...
