JihFen Lei, general manager of the surveillance group at Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY), has been appointed executive vice president for the defense business under the company’s Teledyne FLIR subsidiary. She will lead the newly rebranded segment that consolidates the surveillance and unmanned and integrated solutions units of the sensor pro...
The top official in charge of the Department of Defense organization responsible for commercial technology deployments to the U.S. military will deliver a closing keynote address to the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Wednesday, Jan. 19. Michael Brown, a former Symantec CEO, assumed the director po...
The State Department has agreed to sell up to eight communications intelligence sensor pod suites for MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicles to France for approximately $88 million. The potential foreign military sale will expand a previous transaction with the French government for five pod suites and related equipment worth $71 million, the Defense Securit...
On Dec. 27, 2021 President Joe Biden signed into law the $770 billion National Defense Authorization Act for 2022, which gives a significant funding boost to critical Department of Defense initiatives including adopting emerging technologies, bolstering deterrence capabilities and modernizing military fleets. Of the NDAA’s total funding, $117...
The State Department has approved a potential $233 million foreign military sale of aircraft engine maintenance services and associated equipment to Greece. The government of Greece is in need of depot-level services to repair and maintain F100-PW-229 engines equipped on F-16 Block 52+/52+ jets, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday...
Two new Deltek reports say that information technology modernization, data proliferation and the current national security threat landscape are among the factors that will drive IT investments within defense and intelligence community agencies. The company said it expects the DOD contractor addressable IT market to grow at a compound annual rate of ...
The State Department has approved a request by France to procure follow-on contractor logistics support services and related equipment for the country’s MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle fleet under a $300 million foreign military sales deal with the U.S. government. General Atomics will serve as the principal contractor on the follow-on FMS transa...
The Department of Defense is ramping up its modernization efforts with critical funding boosts and newly created senior executive roles to match the speed of rapid global developments and combat urgent pacing challenges. Defense spending for fiscal year 2022 has increased by five percent from the previous fiscal year’s defense policy measure. In D...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a $95 million bridge contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to extend the company’s facilities maintenance, repair and operations support to military branches. DLA will use the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to issue MRO task orders for the U.S. Army, Navy...
Robert Carey, president of Cloudera’s (NYSE: CLDR) government solutions business, has announced the appointment of Allen Sackadorf, former ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) executive, as vice president of defense and intelligence. In a LinkedIn post, Carey said Sackadorf’s experience in software sales and knowledge of the Department of Defense and inte...
