The top uniformed officer at U.S. Transportation Command said the logistics aspect of military operations is making its way into exercises designed to test joint data integration tools for the U.S. military’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, Defense Daily reported Monday. Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost recently told reporters that t...
Slingshot Aerospace has assigned the role of vice president of strategy and policy to Audrey Schaffer, former space policy director of the White House National Security Council. She will lead the implementation of guidelines to ensure safe space operations, as well as strategic planning for continued profitability of Slingshot’s products and s...
Eight contractors will compete for task orders under a potential five-year, $195 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force for transient alert services at multiple bases. Support will be provided to aircraft without base assignment or needing routine servicing, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Services i...
BL Harbert International has secured a $210 million contract to build a weapons generation facility at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana over a 40-month period. The contract covers the construction of five new infrastructures and the renovation of an existing one-story building at the AFB, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The project is...
Digital twins – virtual models of real-world objects or other physical subjects – have significant potential to transform the future of warfighting, and the Department of Defense has taken notice. This technology allows users to “accelerate, model and put data in that model to see what will happen,” John Ustica, president and...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) won other transaction authority agreements with a combined value of more than $730 million to perform necessary upgrades and replacement of FIM-92 Stinger missiles for the U.S. Army. RTX is expected to complete the OTA by March 2028, while Lockheed has until June 2028 to fulfill the...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has booked a five-year, $458.2 million order to modernize the navigation, controls, tactical mission computer and display systems of the U.S. Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. Under the sole-source award that the Naval Air Systems Command issued against a basic ordering agreement, Northrop will be responsible...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) will deliver broadband and midband capabilities to the U.S. Space Force under a potential 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The multiple-award contract covers the provision of the Iridium Certus L-band terminals and service to support the U.S. military’s effort to proliferate satell...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has secured a five-year, $96.4 million contract from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering with scientific engineering and technical assistance support services. SAIC will assist the OUSD(R&E) Business Operati...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has secured a potential $226.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to produce components of the global aircrew strategic network terminal system for the U.S. Air Force. GDMS will manufacture high-altitude electromagnetic pulse and radiation-hardened general area alertin...
