KBR (NYSE: KBR) posted $1.75 billion in second quarter revenue to register a year-over-year increase of 8 percent and a higher backlog under its government business for the three months ended June 30. The company said Thursday quarterly backlog in the KBR Government Solutions unit amounted to $16 billion, compared with the $11.5 billion recorded...
Alexis Bonnell, former emerging technology evangelist at Google‘s public sector business, has been named the inaugural chief information officer of the Air Force Research Laboratory and director of AFRL’s new digital capabilities directorate. She will oversee the development of the lab’s digital capabilities and information technol...
Eleven small businesses have won spots on a potential $200 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop, integrate and update software platforms for a U.S. Navy program executive office focused on command, control, communications, computers and intelligence. The small business set-aside contract will involve using artificial i...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) saw its revenue increase 10.5 percent year-over-year to $10.2 billion during the second quarter of fiscal 2023 and reported net earnings of $744 million and $2.70 in diluted earnings per share. The Reston, Virginia-based defense and aerospace contractor said Wednesday it achieved a record-high backlog of $91.4 billion wit...
NewSpring Holdings has bought Bridge Core for an undisclosed sum as part of a strategy to establish a full-spectrum company focused on meeting the technology needs of the U.S. intelligence community. NewSpring said Wednesday Chad Kim, most recently chief technology officer at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm, has been appointed CEO of Bridge Core, a provi...
Sarcos Technology and Robotics (Nasdaq: STRC and STRCW) has established an artificial intelligence-focused business segment to cater to the demands of the defense market, and selected Denis Garagic, the company’s chief technology officer, to lead the new unit. The Advanced Technologies division will market Sarcos’ AI and machine learning...
Thirteen additional vendors will compete for work under a $950 million U.S. Air Force contract vehicle to build and demonstrate Joint All Domain Command and Control technologies for air, land, space, sea, cyber and electromagnetic spectrum operations. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award encompasses the development and operation of mult...
Collins Aerospace will perform tactical mission network services in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command under a $62 million contract. The RTX (NYSE: RTX) business will provide SOCOM’s Technology Applications Program Office with logistics assistance and life-cycle support for avionics and cockpit systems over a five-year period, the ...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has begun seeking proposals for the second iteration of its accelerator program to advance the rapid development and commercialization of medical countermeasures. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov states that BARDA Accelerator Network 2.0 aim...
Digital transformation efforts are sweeping the U.S. Department of Defense as the military services race to attain the benefits a strong digital ecosystem can offer. Achieving this goal requires swift, coordinated efforts across all involved parties, and according to experts in the field, the department must place a heavy emphasis on its people...
