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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded two multiple-award, firm-fixed-price contracts totaling $144 million for airfield-related design, construction and maintenance services. Head Inc., MRM Construction Services, the AHTNA-SWCP joint venture and Southern-RC-JV-01 will compete for airfield paving design-bid-build and design-build orders w...

Iron Bow Technologies has received a potential four-year, $144 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to support the service’s Theater Deployable Communications program meant to provide enterprise information technology capabilities to help warfighters facilitate expeditionary communications at the tactical edge. The company said Monday it will ...

Joe Miller began his career serving in the U.S. Navy on a fast-attack submarine where he was first educated about the fundamentals of nuclear power. After finishing his time in the Navy, the former serviceman worked at a shipyard building submarines and quickly became interested in high-technology industries. Miller joined nuclear component and fuel...

Linda Harris, former senior vice president of U.S. Air Force programs at Systems Planning and Analysis, has been named CEO of Deftec, according to a LinkedIn post. Harris will be at the helm of the woman-owned small business as it provides technical, training and advisory services to the Army and other branches of the Department...

The Defense Innovation Unit is inviting industry and academia to propose commercial open source intelligence platforms that will work to help the Department of Defense collect and analyze information on science and technology developments by foreign state competitors and adversaries. DOD is eyeing U.S.-made OSINT prototypes that can use machine lear...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential seven-year, $853 million contract to help the U.S. Navy field and sustain the Aegis weapon system. The company’s rotary and mission systems business will provide engineering, software development, in-service maintenance, logistics, fielding and integration support for Aegis configurations del...

In recent years, there has been a steadily increasing push to optimize and embolden systems for sharing information in the U.S. military. This is most clearly seen in the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain Command and Control initiative, which entails an interlocking network of communications for warfighters. World events such as Russia’s ...

Kathleen Creighton, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, has been named to the board of directors of ManTech. She will bring to the board decades of experience in cybersecurity, information warfare, network operations, information technology and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, ManTech said Wed...

Mark Kavanaugh, former vice president of the defense systems engineering group at KBR’s (NYSE: KBR) Government Solutions business, has been promoted to senior VP, according to his LinkedIn post published Wednesday. The SVP will lead a group of 3,500 specialists in efforts to deliver scientific, engineering and technical services to the D...

The U.S. Space Force is the newest and the smallest military service in the Department of Defense — and it is responsible for the largest domain. The Space Force was established in 2019, and throughout its three years of service thus far, its leadership has made modernization an integral part of its DNA.  Lisa Costa,...