The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 was signed into law at the end of 2023. Among its various mandates were that the Department of Defense cultivate private 5G networks at its service branch bases and outposts. These bases total around 800 globally, representing a clear opportunity for telecommunications providers to offer th...
Project Convergence materialized in 2020 with a goal of connecting Army sensors, command and control nodes and shooters at the tactical level. While the initiative was originally created to tackle Army-specific problems, its reach has dramatically expanded over time. Now, Project Convergence serves as a key part of the Department of Defense’s Comb...
In order to effectively realize Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control — a.k.a. CJADC2, the U.S. Department of Defense’s sweeping data-sharing initiative — information coded in different ways has to be aligned and translated. Since the effort spans across all DOD components and service branches, the inputs “all talk a different langua...
NASA is soliciting proposals for a potential $444 million contract to provide facility operations, service and maintenance at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and Marshall Space Flight Center’s Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana. The Combined Operations, Services, Maintenance & Infrastructure Contract has an ordering period of e...
Raytheon Vice President and Chief Information Officer Ken Wilcox has built his career on curiosity, embracing change and seizing opportunities, even if the challenge was uncomfortable. Wilcox came up through the ranks, having spent most of the last 25 years at RTX and various affiliated organizations. He started out as a software developer at Prat...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a pair of modifications worth $553.4 million combined to build and deliver surface-to-surface rocket weapon systems to the U.S. Army and foreign military customers. The company will provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to the service branch under a $332.1 million modification to a GMLRS supply contrac...
Frontgrade Technologies has appointed Kevin Fox, former chief financial officer of Thermon Group Holdings, as CFO and Allen Couture, formerly executive vice president of execution excellence at Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), as chief operating officer. Fox and Couture will join Frontgrade’s leadership team and succeed outgoing CFO Conrad Ga...
Army Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal has begun seeking proposals for the full rate production of the M10 Booker armored fighting vehicles. ACC-DTA plans to procure up to 266 M10 Booker combat vehicles with all basic issue items, a radio kit, component of end items and under vehicle armor along with 31 refurbishment vehicles and ancillary...
The ever-increasing pace of technological advancement has put pressure on the Department of Defense to ramp up its exploration of 5G, a technology that plays a major role in today’s digitally-driven battlefield. At the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 5G Forum on May 22, you will have the opportunity to hear elite public and private sector experts...
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded $404.5 million in combined indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to six companies for a range of services in support of the telecommunication and network infrastructure at service branch locations. The IDIQ could reach $809 million over a 10-year period if all contract options are exercised and work in Ma...
