Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a five-year, $5.02 billion contract from the Missile Defense Agency to test, integrate and ensure readiness of the country’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system against potential ballistic missile attacks. The award covers physical and logical integration of the GMD element into the Ballistic Missile Defense System ...
In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucrati...
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has listed four prime contractors for a potential $141.1 million foreign military sale of ground command and control equipment to Morocco. DSCA said Thursday the State Department approved the possible FMS transaction that will involve General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems unit, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has secured a two-year, $182 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide a ground-based air defense system to Ukraine as part of a military aid package. The Department of Defense obligated the full amount to procure National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems using fiscal 2022 Ukraine Security A...
The State Department has approved a foreign military sale of multimission military helicopters, manufactured by Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, to Australia through a $1.95 billion government-to-government transaction. Australia requested to buy 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters along with a range of additional items such as ...
Dr. Colin Chinn, chief medical officer of the global health and financial solutions sector at Peraton, has joined a federal advisory committee that advises the Department of Defense on health-related matters. He will serve a four-year term on the Defense Health Board and help provide independent advice to the DOD secretary on issues associated with...
Sealing Technologies has won a $168.5 million task order to help the U.S. Marine Corps implement a suite of tools designed for executing defensive cyber operations. The veteran-owned company will develop self-contained defense cyber weapons systems for Marine Corps DCO teams to analyze vulnerabilities, map the cyber terrain and respond to incidents,...
As today’s cyber threat landscape grows ever more dangerous, federal officials are looking to zero trust for answers to their toughest cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The zero trust model operates on a foundation of “trust nothing, verify everything,” and today, organizations are moving away from the castle-and-moat approach to security an...
Ten companies have won one-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to supply fuel products to the Defense Logistics Agency’s energy organization. DLA Energy received 21 bids for the competitive acquisition program, which includes a carryover period of 30 days, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Deliveries will take place...
The United Arab Emirates has asked to procure Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), from the U.S. government under a potential $2.245 billion foreign military sales deal cleared by the State Department. UAE’s procurement request includes 96 THAAD missile rounds along with four launch control ...
