Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential five-year, $240M contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support engineering and integration of technical systems for the Ballistic Missile Defense program. MDA will incrementally pay for the services with $40.9M in fiscal year 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Departm...
James Mattis will leave the Department of Defense on Feb. 28 after two years of service as DoD’s top civilian leader. œMy views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues, Mattis wrote...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $357.8M contract to help the U.S. Navy produce and integrate air and missile defense radar systems. Work includes combat system integration and test, depot-level maintenance field engineering and spare parts procurement efforts for the AN/SPY-6(V) radar technology, the Department of Defense said Wednesda...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential five-year, $585.2M delivery order from the Missile Defense Agency to design and produce a homeland defense radar system for installation in Oahu, Hawaii. MDA obligated $51.4M in initial research development test and evaluation funds for project that commenced Tuesday and will continue through Dec. ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan™s speech at a National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored briefing on hypersonics. Shanahan said Thursday at the NDIA event that hypersonic technologies need to be operationalized. œThis is about industrial...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have the right balance of technology, people and processes to defend and protect their information technology systems from cyber threats. Reilly wrote that one of the difficult challenges facing agencies is recruiting and retaining cybersecurity profe...
A new McAleese & Associates report says President Donald Trump appears to have expressed support to a defense budget request of $733B to $750B for fiscal year 2020 following his meeting with lawmakers and other government officials. Trump met with Defense Secretary James Mattis; National Security Adviser John Bolton; Senate Armed ...
A new McAleese & Associates report says several government and military leaders discussed some of the Pentagon™s technology priorities at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, talked about cybersecurity and the need for strong cyber defenses to counter ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report that outlines some of the technology priorities of Michael Griffin, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Defense Department. One of the priorities is the need to accelerate the deployment of a space-based sensor layer to defend against hypersonic threats as mandated in the...
A new report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says Boeing (NYSE: BA) has begun to œself-fund research and development work on some Defense Department programs as it aims to win new contract opportunities. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, wrote that one of those opportunities is th...
