The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded a joint venture between information technology services providers Agile Defense and BuddoBot the $162 million Systems, Infrastructure, Applications, Operations and Maintenance Services contract. Agile Defense said Wednesday the SIAOMS contract tasks the Agile-Bot II JV to modernize, maintain and...
Virginia, Texas and California emerged as the top three states for total defense spending in fiscal year 2022, according to a report released by the Department of Defense’s office of local defense community cooperation. Florida, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Arizona are the other seven states that made the to...
Aerospace is combining its space and defense systems business segments into a single organization to align its end-to-end operations with the structure and strategic direction of its Department of Defense customers. Marty Whelan, senior vice president of the defense systems group since 2018, will lead the integrated business unit, which will unify t...
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to procure combat vehicle fleet services from the U.S. government for $500 million as part of a Cooperative Logistics Supply Support Arrangement program, Foreign Military Sales Order II. The potential deal covers the provision of common spares and repair parts for the Saudi Arabian army&...
Josh Watters has been named vice president of defense programs and manufacturing services at the defense and government systems division of Hughes Network Systems, according to his LinkedIn post Tuesday. He joins the satellite network and communications company from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), where he worked for over two decades, m...
On October 24, Potomac Officers Club will host the next in its series of riveting, topical government contracting events: the Achieving Transformative Cooperation for National Defense Forum. Registration is now open, with only limited seats available. This extremely relevant morning (7 a.m. – 10 a.m.) event is brought to you in colla...
Canada has requested to buy from the U.S. government munitions and related systems for integration with General Atomics-built MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial vehicles under a $313.4 million foreign military sales agreement approved by the State Department. The proposed FMS transaction includes AN/APY-8 Lynx synthetic aperture radars, AGM-114R2 Hel...
The State Department has approved South Korea’s request to procure Lockheed Martin-manufactured (NYSE: LMT) fighter jets and Pratt & Whitney-built engines from the U.S. government under a potential $5.06 billion foreign military sales agreement. The potential FMS deal includes 25 F-35 conventional take-off and landing aircraft and up to 26...
The State Department has approved a potential $4 billion foreign military sale of Patriot Configuration-3+ equipped with the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System and related equipment to the government of Poland. Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will serve as the principal contractor on the possible deal that covers the provision of ...
Marina Theodotou, former Defense Acquisition University official, was named executive director of a Department of Defense organization focused on providing Pentagon leaders with independent advice and specific recommendations to drive innovation, according to her LinkedIn post. Theodotou brings three decades of leadership experience to the Defense I...
