The U.S. Air Force has made considerable progress in areas like its adoption of zero trust and the development of an enterprise data fabric, but the service branch still has work to do in transforming its networks and moving its data centers to the cloud. Currently, the Air Force is leading the way in the...
The Department of Defense is placing high priority on the development of secure, resilient mission partner environments as it moves forward with its highly-anticipated Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. “Modernizing mission partner information sharing” is one of the five key lines of effort that make up the Department of Defense’...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $93.55 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue the company’s modernization, conversation and overhaul support for the MK15 close-in weapon system. The company’s missiles and defense unit is helping the service branch update CIWS and associated hardware, the Department ...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Sally Kenyon Grant, vice president of federal at Darktrace, to discuss the launch of the company’s government-focused business as well as the new markets to tap into in an effort to drive growth in 2022 and beyond. She also talked about self-learning artificial intellige...
Global satellite operator SES has signed a $450 million deal to acquire a Leonardo DRS business unit that offers satellite communications and security services to the federal government. The boards of directors of the two companies have approved the terms of the agreement for the DRS Global Enterprise Solutions business and both parties expect to...
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded NT Concepts a spot on a potential five-year, $241.6 million basic ordering agreement to support a program aimed at preparing Department of Defense data for use in AI applications. NT Concepts said Tuesday it will support JAIC’s Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development program, whic...
Fred Kennedy, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s tactical technology office, has formed a company with the goal of developing nuclear thermal rocket engine technology to support cislunar space programs. Dark Fission Space Systems aims to work with government and industry partners in efforts to accelerate the on-orbi...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $318.9 million contract modification to supply the U.S. Air Force with additional Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile systems. The service branch ordered 308 more JASSM-Extended Range missiles and containers from the company’s missiles and fire control business as part of lot 20 production work, the...
Accounting firm EY will continue to perform audits of the annual U.S. Army general fund and train the service branch’s financial management personnel under a $370 million contract modification. The company is currently assisting the Army in efforts to manage business process gaps and corrective measures, the Department of Defense said Monday. ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded an additional 23 positions on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across all domains in support of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. Vendors will compete for future orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to mature, demonstrate and proliferate capabil...
