A Rolls-Royce subsidiary has received a $194 million contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to supply upgraded power packs for Israel’s fleet of military ground transport vehicles to fulfill a foreign military sales requirement. Rolls-Royce Solutions America will provide the Namer Armored Personnel Carrier Power Packs Less Transmissio...
Saab’s U.S. subsidiary has booked a potential $91.5 million sole-source contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain medium-range 3D surveillance radars and other sensor systems. Saab Inc. will support the life cycle sustainment of AN/SPS-77 radar variants, AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar Systems, the Celsius Tech Radar and Optronic Site 2...
President Joe Biden has nominated John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, to serve as full-time CIO at DOD. Sherman has nearly 25 years of innovation and national security experience across DOD and the intelligence community leading modernization efforts in the areas of collaboration, cybersecurity and cloud comp...
The U.S. Cyber Command is planning to collaborate with different agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cyber Information Security Agency to strengthen cybersecurity initiatives for the upcoming 2022 elections, Signal reported Wednesday. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of the Cybercom who serves concurrently as the director of the Na...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said DOD’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 will offer details on how the U.S. military will spend on efforts to mitigate climate change, Defense News reported Thursday. “We are definitely looking at that both in our strategy development efforts...
Government contractors came from private companies that manufacture goods and services for government establishments. This group of people is like government organizations that come in different shapes and sizes. A group of government contracting companies is hired by the government when their contracts win through bidding. U.S Government contracts ...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, has approved 16 advisory boards to resume operations after considering some recommendations of a zero-based review of all advisory committees within DOD, Defense News reported Friday. In February, Austin ordered the immediate suspension of all 42 advisory boards to...
Joseph Bryan, senior adviser for climate at the Department of Defense, and Ecological Futures Group founder Rod Schoonover will participate in Sept. 14 event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss climate change issues affecting national security initiatives. Bryan is a former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center an...
Preston Dunlap, chief architect for the Air Force and Space Force, recently spoke with GovConWire for an exclusive Q&A session regarding the first phase of delivery for Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), the speed and timing challenges of technology development, the future of network modernization and a lot more. Dunlap will also be f...
The State Department has named Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) as principal contractor on a potential $350 million foreign military sale of defense services to Australia, in preparation for future orders of company-built Standard Missile systems and associated equipment. Raytheon would develop, engineer, integrate and test SM-6 Block I and SM-2 Bl...
