Carey Smith, president and CEO of Parsons, has been recognized by Executive Mosaic in the 2022 edition of the Wash100 Award, the fourth time that she’s received the most prestigious recognition in government contracting. Smith assumed the president role at Parsons in November 2019, took on additional responsibilities as CEO in July 2021 and will ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2021 — A team from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has completed the system requirements review of the Next Generation Interceptor under a Missile Defense Agency contract awarded in March, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 21. The NGI team will now proceed to initial system design, additional...

The Missile Defense Agency has begun seeking information on small businesses that could provide software development, data management and other related services to support the modernization and operation of an agencywide data repository. MDA issued the request for information for the Agency Information Management and Software Services program to hel...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 1, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a Missile Defense Agency award to participate in a program focused on the development and demonstration of a hypersonic missile interceptor meant to counter threats in the glide phase of flight, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 22. ̶...

BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Trac...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have received other transaction agreements from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor design concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA said Friday prototypes that will emerge through th...

The Missile Defense Agency has posted a request for proposal for the design, development, test and deployment of a weapon system in support of the U.S. ground-based midcourse defense. According to the SAM.gov solicitation posted Friday, the GMD Weapon System Program is aimed at equipping warfighters with tech operation capability, developing softwar...

Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. has received a potential five-year, $121 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Missile Defense Agency for weapon system-related research, development and engineering efforts. The nonprofit organization at Georgia Institute of Technology will conduct R&D work focused on airborne-base...

C3 AI (NYSE: AI) has secured a production other transaction agreement from the Missile Defense Agency to develop an artificial intelligence application for modeling and simulating a hypersonic missile’s flight path. The Redwood, California-based company said Monday it aims to help the MDA to create physically realistic trajectories and large t...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $172.7 million contract to operate and sustain airborne sensor equipment for the Missile Defense Agency. The company will continue to help MDA maintain systems, plan missions, conduct flight tests and modernize technologies of the agency’s High Altitude Observatory platform, ...