All of the four-star generals of the U.S. Air Force and the vast majority of three-stars assembled in June at a table top exercise that demonstrated various scenarios regarding strategic maneuvers required when carrying out logistics in contested settings and conditions. The service’s leaders saw it as a highly beneficial process that is nece...
A Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics subsidiary has received a potential four-year, $428.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to build prototypes of the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body system. Dynetics Technical Solutions will perform work in Huntsville, Alabama, through July 23, 2027, the Department of Defense said Monday. Army Contracting Com...
IT and professional services provider RSC2 has acquired Navigant Systems, a veteran-owned business, for an undisclosed sum to add offerings and markets in the command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance area. RSC2 said Monday the two companies have complementary C5ISR platforms and the acquisitio...
Cummins has booked a new firm-fixed-price contract valued at $347.4 million to supply the U.S. Army with new and remanufactured diesel engines for the Bradley fighting vehicle and other ground military platforms. The branch is procuring V903 Cummins series products with 600 and 675 horsepower, the Department of Defense said Friday. Columbus, Indiana...
Eleven companies have won spots on a $750 million multiple-award contract to provide small-caliber ammunition products to the U.S. Special Operations Command. SOCOM received 16 proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a full and open competition, the Department of Defense said Friday. The awardees are: Bighorn Governmen...
Mark Eddings, former technical director of the interagency Space Security and Defense Program, has been named senior vice president of space market at LMI. His 15-year experience in the industry includes leading the establishment of the space control force designs of the U.S. Space Force, LMI said Thursday. Eddings previously advised the director of...
As competition ramps up in space, the evolving domain has taken center stage among U.S. Department of Defense priorities. Ensuring dominance in this novel warfighting environment requires a number of new capabilities, but to keep pace with adversaries, they must be developed and deployed more quickly than ever before. Tasked with developing, fi...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will equip Wright Patterson Air Force Base with computer systems under a $26.5 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army. The Department of Defense said Thursday funds for the delivery and installation of HPE computers at the air base in Ohio were covered by the Army’s fiscal year 2023 other...
The U.S. Department of the Air Force is looking toward a revised strategy in how it goes about procuring technologies from industry partners and encouraging innovation in the commercial sector. In order to speed up the fielding and implementation of new tools, DAF leaders are turning to alternative sources for products and services. “We have...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary has won a $220.8 million other transaction agreement to build a prototype of high-energy laser technology for the U.S. Army’s ground-based Indirect Fire Protection Capability weapon system. Aculight will provide development, integration, manufacturing, testing and delivery services to the IFPC-HEL progr...
