A Boeing-led (NYSE: BA) team has received a potential $4.1B contract modification to provide technical capabilities needed to expand and build up the Ground-based Midcourse Defense anti-ballistic missile system. The Department of Defense said Friday the modification partially definitizes the potential $6.56B contract action that the Missil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2019 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) unveiled plans to apply a four-tiered strategy in support of the company’s effort to build a competitive edge in the hypersonic defense market, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Defense News reported Tuesday that Northrop is moving to pursue opportunities in hypersonic defens...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a four-year, $402.6M contract modification to produce three air and missile defense radar systems. Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business will provide the radars for installation on DDG 51 Flight III destroyer ships, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Work under the modification...
Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) received a potential $129M contract to provide operational support for a Department of Defense program. The contract has a one-year base period, four option years and an additional six-month option, the company said Thursday. œThis win speaks not only to our dependability as a partner but also our ability as an adviser...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received an $830.6M contract option from the Missile Defense Agency to continue developing a key element of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The company will develop additional THAAD increments, support ground and flight testing operations and help the agency sustain the Ballistic Missile Defense System...
Juan Garcia, a 26-year U.S. Navy veteran and former leader for global associate development at Amazon, has been named a managing director for the defense, security and justice sector at Deloitte Consulting’s government and public services practice. He will work with federal agencies to help them address workforce transformation goal...
On Tuesday, Jan. 15th, Govcon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s 5th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit. The event featured keynote addresses from five of the top leaders in the R&D field. Mary Miller, acting assistant secretary for research and engineering at the Department of De...
Thomas Gillespie, director of the Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers, has provided the agency with strategic studies and built communities of interest in areas of critical importance, including cyber operations, weapon systems and homeland defense. In September, DoD signed 15 companies to a potential nine-year, $28B contract for tech...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 10, 2018 ” Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has said she believes the challenges that women professionals encounter in the defense sector are more “aspirational” instead of institutional, as the industry sees a surge in women leaders at top ...
President Donald Trump has announced that Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will serve as secretary of the Department of Defense on an interim basis starting Jan. 1, Military Times reported Sunday. Trump made the announcement in a tweet posted Sunday days after James Mattis disclosed his plan to resign from his post at DoD by the...
