A Textron business (NYSE: TXT) will continue providing the U.S. Army with engineering and technical services in support of unmanned aircraft system sustainment and technology integration efforts. According to an award notice on SAM.gov, Textron Systems will conduct the said services under a potential $144.1 million follow-on contract that has a five...
In response to the growing need for modern defense technologies now and in the future, the United States Army established its Army Futures Command, an organization dedicated to facilitating persistent modernization within the service branch. Since its launch in 2018, the command has centered three focus areas: prioritizing people, designin...
Since he began at Army Futures Command in 2020, Lt. Gen Thomas Todd has focused on aligning the Department of Defense’s technology arsenal with its fast-moving targets and battle demands. As deputy commanding general for acquisition and systems management, Todd is in charge of envisioning and leading research on the next generation of wa...
IPTA has secured a potential $404 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide enterprise information technology support services for the military branch’s Aviation and Missile Center, GovCon Wire has learned. The EITSS contract covers information management services, network support, cybersecurity management, IT asset management, tiered service...
In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucrati...
The U.S. Army’s Capability Sets were introduced in 2021 in order to lay out a roadmap for maintaining a modern, technologically advanced service branch that will be prepared for any challenges adversaries could bring their way. The Capability Sets are mission protocols designed to be completed and phased out every two years. This effort began wit...
Mike Bosco, senior vice president of Army Mission Solutions at Sev1Tech, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about exchanging talent between industry and government and other ways for both to work together to boost collaboration and drive innovation. The Q&A also focused on U.S. Army’s modernizat...
As the U.S. Army places heavy emphasis on modernization, service leaders are looking to harness more industry innovations that can help the branch create robust information and data sharing capabilities at a quicker speed. Matt Benigni, chief data officer for the Army Futures Command, said during a recent Dcode webinar that he views digital transfor...
GovCon Wire Events will feature Ed Mornston, director of intelligence and security at the Army Futures Command; and Joseph Rouge, deputy director of ISR at the U.S. Space Force, as panelists at a virtual event scheduled for Wednesday. Brian Keller, vice president and Army strategic account executive at Leidos, will moderate the panel discussion as...
U.S. Army officials are working to synchronize the modernization of its enterprise and tactical networks for the first phase of an initiative to create an Army force that is ready for multidomain operations from 2028 onwards. The Army’s Unified Network Plan, released Oct. 8, outlines five lines of effort to align service personnel, capabilitie...
