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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...

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...

Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) foundry business has added Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to the second phase of the Department of Defense’s Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes-Commercial program. Northrop and Boeing will join IBM (NYSE: IBM), NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) and other RAM...

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a $256.3 million contract option by Naval Air Systems Command to maintain fielded F-35 propulsion systems for domestic and international military customers. The engine builder will support depot-level F135 maintenance and repair activities under the exercised option, the Department o...

Semiconductor chips underpin nearly every technology, weapon system and digital capability across the Department of Defense, making them increasingly important for a wide array of government and military missions. However, the United States’ production of these chips has fallen in recent decades, threatening our technological standing on the globa...

The government contracting industry’s confidence in its future revenues has recovered from a COVID-19-prompted dip. The market’s assurance in its ability to drive new business has increased by 1.6 percent from a year ago, returning what’s known as the GovCon Confidence Index, or GCCI, to pre-pandemic levels. GCCI is measured by Deltek’s Cl...

RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured an $81 million contract modification to continue supporting a joint initiative between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force to build a hypersonic air-breathing weapon system.  The modification brings the total cumulative value of the company’s HAWC contract from $272 million to $...

Integrated Data Services has received a sole-source contract worth nearly $100 million to provide the U.S. Air Force with a commercial off-the-shelf system for program and financial management. Using the Comprehensive Cost And Requirement system, IDS subject matter experts will support enterprise operations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio...