Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide guidance subsystems support for the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile under a potential 16-year, $1.6 billion contract. Minuteman ICBM guidance systems have recorded more than 40 million hours of operation and Boeing said Wednesday it will help maintain the readiness of such technologi...
Greg Williams, most recently vice president of Chevo Consulting’s homeland security practice, has been promoted to executive VP of the management consulting firm’s homeland security and defense account. Williams brings to the role over three decades of experience offering management advisory support to homeland, civilian and defense clients, Che...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100, said he is working on a new DOD guidance on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program as part of efforts to ensure “cloud rationalization” and enable the government to get the best mission outcome and value for...
An Amentum subsidiary will maintain the U.S. Navy’s F-5 light fighter aircraft at the organizational, intermediate and depot levels under a $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. PAE Aviation and Technical Services will also perform logistics support work and is expected to complete services in March 2024, the Depa...
Intelligent Waves will provide crowdsourced flight data support services to the U.S. Air Force under a two-year, $99.9 million contract. The company will assist the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron headquartered at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada in performing flight test mission instrumentation modifications, enhancements and operations as part of...
An AECOM (NYSE: ACM) subsidiary has won a five-year, $239 million contract to provide architect-engineer services to Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command’s cleanup projects at former waste disposal sites. The award to AECOM Technical Services includes field investigation, laboratory testing and technical work throughout the remedi...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $2.25 billion contract modification to produce 15 additional KC-46A tankers for the U.S. Air Force. The award for the ninth aircraft production lot under a previously awarded contract covers licenses, data and subscriptions, the Department of Defense said Friday. Work under the contract option will occur in Seattle t...
The Department of Defense’s arms sales grew by almost 50 percent in fiscal year 2022 due in large part to foreign military transactions in Asia and Central Europe, DOD News reported Wednesday. Data from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency showed an increase in sales from $34.81 billion in 2021 to approximately $52 billion last year....
The Department of Defense has made changes to the Autonomy in Weapon Systems directive to reflect DOD’s continuous efforts to develop policies on military uses of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems as well as changes across the department over the last 10 years. The DoD Directive 3000.09 was developed to prevent unintended engagements ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will perform non-recurring engineering work for an F-35 flight science test aircraft replacement project under a $320 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The company will engineer systems to support the production of F-35A, F-35B and F-35C jets intended for testing use by the Navy, Air Force, Mar...
