The Missile Defense Agency has awarded 1,014 companies positions on the new Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense contract, a potential 10-year, $151 billion vehicle for the Golden Dome multi-layer missile defense architecture. The first tranche of staggered awards establishes the competitive pool while the agency continues discuss...
The Department of State has cleared a potential foreign military sale to the United Kingdom for Navy multiband terminals and related equipment valued at $200 million, with RTX named as the principal contractor. What Will the UK Receive Under the FMS Deal? According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the U.K. FMS request covers six...
Nokia’s 5G communications technology is transforming combat. From arctic operations to applications for the Marine Corps and teaming arrangements with leading defense contractors, Nokia is charting the path forward for secure, high-bandwidth and reliable 5G technology with allied armed services. In today’s complicated and challenging ope...
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $99 million contract from the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command to design, deploy and sustain advanced wireless connectivity for MSC’s government-operated ships. What Will Booz Allen Deliver Under the Contract? The work will extend secure, resilient communications to civil service mariners aboard vess...
The Pentagon’s research and engineering enterprise is entering one of its most decisive restructuring periods in more than a decade. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael has formally trimmed the department’s sprawling list of 14 “critical technology areas” down to six streamlined priorities, a shift he said ...
Bri Frost, director of security and IT ops curriculum at Pluralsight, said government agencies can strengthen their cybersecurity posture by prioritizing continuous, targeted training and upskilling their IT teams. In an article Carahsoft published, Frost wrote that agencies face mounting challenges in assembling IT teams that can handle today’...
The Department of State has approved a potential foreign military sale to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, also known as TECRO, for non-standard spare and repair parts of F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet, C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and Indigenous Defense Fighter aircraft. The FMS is valued at an est...
The Department of State has approved a potential $3.5 billion foreign military sale of Standard Missile 6 Block I and Standard Missile 2 Block IIIC systems to Germany. RTX, which manufactures both missile families through its Raytheon business, is the principal contractor, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday. Germany requested up to ...
The Department of State has approved a potential foreign military sale of AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder tactical missiles and related support equipment valued at an estimated $318.4 million to the government of Denmark. RTX will serve as the principal contractor of the proposed FMS, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday. What Does the ...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International In today’s hyper-connected world, the systems and assets we take for granted—our power plants, water and wastewater systems, telecommunications networks, transportation systems, hospitals, financial institutions, food supply chains and the manufacturing base—are deeply interwove...
