Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has won a potential $1.2 billion contract from the U.S. Army for Patriot Missile System fire units. Army Contracting Command received two offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and obligated the whole contract amount using foreign military sales funds for fiscal year 2023, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. W...
In February of last year, the Department of Defense identified microelectronics as one of its 14 critical technology areas of focus. Since then, the federal government has taken steps to rejuvenate this industry within the U.S., most notably with the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to rebuild the domestic semiconductor manufact...
Adam Clater, chief architect of Red Hat‘s North America public sector organization, said government agencies need a “consistent interface layer” that would allow them to manage applications and work with multiple cloud service providers as procurement changes and congressional bills push them to deploy multicloud environments. “Users can...
Peraton‘s risk decision group will carry out background investigation fieldwork for the U.S. government under a $144.4 million task order from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. Work under the single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will occur nationwide and run from April 1, 2023, through March 31, 202...
Aaron Weis, a four-time Wash100 Award recipient who most recently served as chief information officer at the Department of the Navy, has been named managing director of technology at Google’s public sector arm. He will oversee the unit’s tech strategy for the Google Cloud Platform and manage a team of public sector technologists that will...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $210.1 million order to provide logistics support for the U.K.’s F-35 air systems. Lockheed’s aeronautics unit will conduct ground maintenance, warehouse management, training and depot activities, the Department of Defense said Monday. DOD added that the business will operate and ma...
The Department of Defense is looking beyond large, traditional contractors and setting its sights on startup companies to keep up with China’s advancement in military technology, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Some industry watchers expressed support for DOD’s move, but they said the department should fortify strategies, includ...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded 18 companies positions on a potential five-year, $900 million contract to provide data software services to help meet warfighters’ requirements. Space Systems Command received 34 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and expects work to occur in El Segundo, California, thro...
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...
