Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed a plan designed to guide the military’s implementation activities aimed at ensuring U.S. electromagnetic spectrum advantage and providing warfighters with “freedom of action” in the EMS. The Department of Defense said Thursday its operations in air, land, maritime, space and cyberspace doma...
Livonia, Michigan-based small business InfoPoint has received a potential $61.19 million contract from Washington Headquarters Services to provide the Defense Security Cooperation Agency with enterprise application development and support services. The contractor will support DSCA Information Management and Technology, a directorate that handles a p...
Raymond Karrenbauer, a veteran of the insurance and information technology sectors, has joined the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He will oversee the technology portfolio, business operations and financial accounts of the organization responsible for managing CMM...
Daniel Ragsdale, former principal director for cyber in the Department of Defense’s research and engineering office, has been appointed vice president and architect at Arlington, Virginia-based Two Six Technologies. The retired U.S. Army colonel brings his three decades of military experience and his knowledge of cybersecurity to the technolog...
Austal USA, Epsilon Systems Solutions and Continental Maritime of San Diego have secured positions on a 19-month, $344.7 million contract to sustain littoral combat ships for the U.S. Navy. The three shipyard operators will compete for delivery orders to perform sustainment work on LCS vessels homeported in San Diego, the Department of Defense said ...
Dawne Hickton, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Critical Mission Solutions for Jacobs (NYSE: J), was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. Hickton, a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, tackled Jacobs’ growth strategy and related senior leadership appointments as well as ef...
Saab will develop and produce system replacements for a ship-based continuous wave target illuminator under a potential $104.8 million firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed fee and cost-only contract from the U.S. Navy. The contract for the MK 9 Tracker Illuminator System replacements has a $32.2 million base amount and a two-year initial performance pe...
A Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) subsidiary has been awarded a $94.88 million contract to manufacture lot 10 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile systems for the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. Alliant Techsystems Operations, which operates under Northrop’s defense systems sector, will convert 87 AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiati...
Gregory Kausner, executive director for international cooperation at the Department of Defense, has been assigned to perform the duties of defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment. DOD said Tuesday it also appointed Paul Cramer, DOD’s principal deputy assistant secretary for sustainment (installations), to serve as Kausner’...
U.S. Space Command leaders have emphasized the importance of intelligence data, commercial technology and workforce diversity in its mission to help other combatant commands protect the country’s space assets from adversarial threats. Sean Kirkpatrick, deputy director of intelligence at SPACECOM, said the U.S. must leverage space technology be...
