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The U.K. defense ministry has announced a potential $2.79 billion investment to equip its fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets with a new radar designed to provide pilots with situational awareness capability by enabling them to detect and track multiple ground and aerial targets. BAE Systems will integrate the European Common Radar System Mk 2...
Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, said the company has learned lessons from the Air Force One contract and will explore various contracting approaches to help inform future decision-making for customer programs, Defense News reported Sunday. “We have learned a ton of lessons, especially a...
The Department of Defense has begun its search for a new executive who will succeed Michael Brown as director of the Defense Innovation Unit, which helps DOD speed up the adoption of commercial technologies to strengthen national security. Brown, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, will step down from his role as DIU director once his...
Does Lockheed Martin have government contracts? The primary activities of Lockheed Martin, a multinational security and aerospace company, are the design, research, manufacture, business development, integration, and maintenance of high-tech equipment. Although the company is a private company, it mainly offers its products and services to th...
Following the completion of the all-stock merger between Vectrus and Vertex that resulted in the establishment of V2X, Chuck Prow, CEO of the new and more diversified company, engaged in a Q&A with GovCon Wire to share the early discussions about the combination and to expound on the rationale behind the transaction. The eight-time recipient...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR), GeoOptics and PlanetiQ to supply space weather data under a pilot program that seeks to demonstrate the impact of commercial data on weather forecast models. The Commercial Weather Data Pilot contracts call for the three companies to provide radio...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has promoted 16-year company veteran Amanda Muller to chief of responsible technology. Muller will be responsible for shaping processes, tools and policies for artificial intelligence and information governance across Northrop’s enterprise and within its defense area, according to her LinkedIn profile. Prior to the...
Guidehouse has added former hospital and state health leaders Michael Duke, Michelle Moratti, Joe Bialowitz and Mark Thomas to its health segment to help organizations modernize the delivery of health care services to communities, transform operations and finances and address market challenges. Duke, former chief information officer for a community ...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) is part of an Axiom Space-led industry team that will produce an astronaut spacesuit and spacewalk systems for NASA under a potential $3.5 billion milestone-based contract awarded in June. Houston-based KBR said Wednesday it will support Axiom Space in manufacturing design, test and verification efforts through the agency&#...
WidePoint (NYSE American: WYY) has received a $73.4 million task order from the U.S. Coast Guard for cellular managed services. The task order was awarded under the Cellular Wireless Management Services 2.0 blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Homeland Security and has a base performance period of six months with $7.9 million in funding...
