Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Riverside Research have won contracts worth $79.2 million combined to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force. The contractors will research, build and demonstrate component prototypes to further develop open architecture approaches and standards for existing and future weapons systems of the Air Force...
Carl Jones, a U.S. Air Force veteran, has assumed the role of senior director of Space Force and USAF business development and sales at BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY). Jones moved to BlackSky after working for five years at Lentech, where he previously served as senior director/strategic advisor to Air Force multi-domain command and control, he...
HII’s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division will conduct technical research and analysis for the Air Force Research Laboratory under a $70 million task order. The award includes IT services such as data analytics, modeling and simulation and system engineering to support AFRL’s information technology modernization efforts involving artif...
The State Department has approved Oman’s request to buy from the U.S. government up to 48 AGM-154C Joint Standoff Weapon systems, related equipment and support services under a potential $385 million foreign military sales agreement. Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business will serve as the principal contractor in the pr...
The U.S. Air Force is soliciting information from industry as it plans to compete Cloud One Next, a follow-on contract to the Cloud One program. The service is seeking input on how companies would manage and update Cloud One while taking into consideration “recent government leadership direction,” according to a request for information published...
The State Department has approved a potential $380 million sale of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, produced by Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), and related equipment to the government of Belgium. Raytheon’s missile systems division will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed foreign military sales agreement, which cover...
Bionetics, a Yorktown, Virginia-based engineering and manufacturing services company, has secured a 10-year, $185.8 million contract to manage the U.S. Air Force’s metrology and calibration laboratory in Heath, Ohio. The company will conduct work in support of the Air Force Primary Standards Laboratory through Nov. 30, 2032, the Department of...
Three companies have won spots on a one-year, $72.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force obtain ground and aircraft support equipment. Cherokee Nation’s aerospace and defense business, Ciqima Federal Services and S&K Federal Services will offer sourcing, acquisition and delivery services through the multiple-award set-aside contract...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure from the U.S. government two dozen military transport aircraft built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and related equipment under a potential $6.35 billion foreign military sales deal. The Australian government asked to buy 24 C-130J-30, the stretch variant of Lockheed’s Hercu...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a one-year, $87.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to support sustainment efforts for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System. The company will engineer and sustain systems, train flight and mission crews and manage certification of weapon system interoperability as part of the ind...
