The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, better known as JADC2, has been an enigmatic and historically disparate effort across the defense landscape since its conception. But in 2022, the initiative took a little more shape as the DOD released its JADC2 strategy and implementation plan. Now, as JADC2 begins...
In February of last year, the Department of Defense identified microelectronics as one of its 14 critical technology areas of focus. Since then, the federal government has taken steps to rejuvenate this industry within the U.S., most notably with the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to rebuild the domestic semiconductor manufact...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will manufacture lot nine glide bombs equipped with multimode seeker technology for the U.S. Air Force under a $320.3 million contract. The company’s missiles and defense business will produce 1,500 units of the StormBreaker, a networked weapon designed to locate and engage fixed or moving targets, Raytheon sa...
Nine companies hold spots on a U.S. Air Force indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth $360 million over nine years to carry out construction projects at Barksdale AF Base in Louisiana. The 2nd Contracting Squadron received 21 bids for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition pr...
Federal Contracting, doing business as Bryan Construction, has won a 32-month, $128.7 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build aircraft maintenance support facilities and equipment at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. USACE received two bids for the project via an online-based solicitation process, the Defense Departm...
David McKeown, senior information security officer and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity at the Department of Defense, became the latest government official to be inducted into the 2023 edition of the Wash100. McKeown’s first selection to receive the Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic reflects his leadership in DOD-wide effor...
Eighteen companies have won spots on a nine-year, $960 million U.S. Air Force contract to assist the Department of Defense and its partner nation agencies in combatting various security threats across the globe. USAF’s Air Combat Command Acquisition Management and Integration Center received 75 proposals for the Counter-Narcotics and Global Th...
The U.S. Air Force has selected four companies to supply interface test adapters and associated equipment under a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Vendors will perform design and manufacturing services to support the service branch’s Government Test Program Set development program, the Department of Defense sai...
The State Department has cleared Taiwan’s request to buy munitions, related equipment and services for F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. government through a potential $619 million foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTN) missiles and defense business will serve as principal contractors i...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $1.2 billion contract to develop two variants of the E-7 airborne early warning and control aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. E-7 comes with an Agile software design and open systems architecture to facilitate the integration of new capabilities and serves as an integrated command-and-control node to provide...
