Shield AI has acquired Heron Systems for an undisclosed sum to further expand its artificial intelligence engineering and reinforcement learning capabilities. Heron Systems is a software company founded in 1993 and is known for developing an AI pilot that emerged undefeated against a human Air Force F-16 fighter pilot in five rounds of simulated air...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a $90.2 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to perform tests and related activities to support the transition of a guidance electronic unit to production as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. Under the award, Raytheon Missiles...
Braxton Technologies, now part of Parsons (NYSE: PSN), has secured a $139.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Space Force to continue ground-based satellite systems support at the Space and Missiles Systems Center. The company is helping the service branch prototype, integrate and manage network, infrastructure, architecture and hardware s...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will supply additional missile launcher systems for installation on the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Constellation-class frigates under a four-year, $231.4 million contract modification. The service branch procured 70 more MK41 Vertical Launching System modules along with ancillary equipment from c...
Six companies have won positions on a $218.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the U.S. Navy’s surface ship programs. Each contractor will receive $100,000 as a guaranteed minimum contract amount and can vie for engineering and technical services, program management and information technology support task orde...
Four companies have been selected to provide mission support services for the U.S. Army’s Futures and Concepts Center through a potential five-year, $240 million contract. The Army Field Directorate Office in Virginia received 15 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation, the Department of Defense said Monday. Contracto...
Lee Payne, a three-decade Department of Defense civilian and military service veteran, has been named a specialist executive of Deloitte Consulting‘s government and public service business. The retired U.S. Air Force major general joins the professional services company after his stint as lead for the diagnostics and testing line of effort for...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing air and missile defense radar systems for installation on U.S. Navy ships under a potential $781 million contract modification. This award for AN/SPY-6(V) integration and production support services has a $67.7 million face value and will reach the ceiling amount if the military branch ex...
President Joe Biden intends to nominate Andrew Hunter, director of the Center for Strategic International Studies’ defense-industrial initiatives group, to be the next U.S. Air Force assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, the White House said Friday. Hunter will oversee research, development and acquisition programs through...
The space defense sector continues to grow in response to foreign adversaries’ anti-satellite and space-based weaponry developments. The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to rapidly developing and deploying robust space intelligence sensors that will supply military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages...
