General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) missions systems business has received a potential five-year, $79.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the Independence-class littoral combat ship. The company will provide in-service engineering and lifecycle support services for the LCS’ integrated combat management system and relate...
The State Department has approved Canada’s request to buy from the U.S. government the Aegis Combat System built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and associated equipment through a potential $1.7 billion foreign military sales deal. Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems unit will be the primary contractor on the proposed sale of four Aegis...
Stu Shea — chairman, president and CEO at Peraton and a 2021 Wash100 winner — has offered a glimpse into the nine business sectors that will arise out of the Peraton-Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) merger slated to close in a few weeks. Shea said Thursday in a regulatory filing the businesses set to be formed by...
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...
