The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to buy heavy armored combat systems, related equipment and services through a potential $1.685 billion foreign military sales agreement. The proposed FMS deal includes M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks, M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles, M1074 Joint Assault Bridges and M88A2 Hercules combat reco...
Jenn Azzolina of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Michael Daly of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) said the two companies have teamed up to develop a technology platform to help government agencies glean insights from large volumes of data while ensuring data security using plug-and-play analytics and zero trust approach. Azzolina and Daly wrote th...
Sarcos Robotics and Rotor Acquisition (NYSE: ROT) have named eight individuals who will sit on the board of the company that will form out of a pending merger with a $1.3 billion transaction value. Ben Wolff, chairman and CEO of Sarcos, will lead the future board when both parties close the deal in the third...
The service chiefs of the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy emphasized the role technology and data would play in joint efforts to transform warfighting across multiple domains at their meeting last week about the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept, Army News Service reported Tuesday. Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville...
VTG has been awarded a potential five-year, $188 million contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize surface fleet combat systems as part of the service branch’s Technical Insertion 16 program. The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme Division awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering TI16 procurement, eng...
The U.S. Army plans to release a solicitation for proposals to develop prototypes under the third increment of the Combat Vehicle Robotics program. The CoVeR Inc 3 program seeks to build and integrate technologies to enable multidomain robotic and autonomous system capabilities to team with Army formations in support of close combat, targeting, acqu...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a two-year, $79.4 million contract to provide Small Diameter Bomb Increment 2 testing platforms to the U.S Air Force’s joint acquisition program with the U.S. Navy. The sole-source cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will also include tasks to assemble, test and integrate...
Chris DeRusha, the new federal chief information security officer (CISO) for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has been selected by Executive Mosaic to receive the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon) for the first time in his federal career. DeRusha has been recognized as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) business segment has received a one-year, $93.2 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy maintain combat management technology used on Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships. The award covers sustainment work on the LCS Component-Based Total Ship System – 21st Century and related elements of the combat archite...
Alfred Grein, acting director of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, said the branch received four prototypes of its Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light platform from a QinetiQ North America–Pratt Miller partnership, Defense News reported Wednesday. He told attendees at an Association of the U....
