BAE Systems, Serco and Scientific Research Corp. have won spots on a $536.7 million contract to engineer shipboard command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems for the U.S. Navy. The three companies will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to integrate, test and install C4I equip...
Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) space business has received a potential $474.2 million contract modification to manufacture submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles for the U.S. Navy. The award exercised options under an existing contract for the production of Trident II D5 missiles and delivery of related deployed systems services and supports a...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has received a potential 12-year, $1.79 billion contract from the U.S. Army to provide flight simulation training support services. Army Contracting Command solicited offers and received one bid for the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The service b...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will manufacture lot nine glide bombs equipped with multimode seeker technology for the U.S. Air Force under a $320.3 million contract. The company’s missiles and defense business will produce 1,500 units of the StormBreaker, a networked weapon designed to locate and engage fixed or moving targets, Raytheon sa...
Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) has secured a 10-year, $340.3 million contract to help manage the life cycle of the U.S. Air Force’s enterprise land mobile radio system. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will include LMR network sustainment maintenance services, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Motorola will additiona...
To adapt to a warfighting landscape increasingly driven by digital technology, the U.S. military must pursue the implementation of zero trust with interoperability and collaboration in mind, according to public and private sector information technology leaders. Joseph Staier Joseph Staier, chief engineer for the Air Force’s enterprise information ...
Sierra7 has booked a $104 million task order to review information technology systems that support a product line under the Department of Veterans Affairs’ portfolio of benefits and memorial services. VA placed the order for an independent verification and validation of the compensation and pension product line via the Transformation Twenty-On...
The U.S. Navy has exercised options worth $234 million under a contract with Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for the production and delivery of an over-the-horizon weapon system for defending against targets at sea and on land. Raytheon and its Norwegian partner Kongsberg Gruppen won the potential $847.6 million OTH-WS contract in 2018 to supply N...
By the time a new technology is funded, developed, prototyped, tested, produced and finally put in the hands of our warfighters, it’s often already outdated, as the federal government’s acquisition processes can take years to get through. The Defense Innovation Unit is on a mission to drastically speed up the Department of Defense’s acquisiti...
