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....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 9, 2021 — Boeing (NYSE: BA) and the Australian air force demonstrated the performance of the company-built Loyal Wingman teaming aircraft during an initial test flight, ExecutiveBiz reported March 2. “Boeing and Australia are pioneering fully integrated combat operations by crewed and uncrewed aircraft,” said Leanne Ca...
RENK, a Germany-based maker of automatic transmissions and gear units for military vehicles, has agreed to acquire Combat Propulsion Systems and Magnet-Motor businesses of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for an undisclosed sum to create a combat mobility platforms developer with key operations in the U.S. and Europe. RENK said Monday it expec...
Cubic’s (NYSE: CUB) mission and performance solutions segment has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide airborne pods for the service branch’s P5 Combat Training System at various range facilities located within the continental U.S. The company said Monday it will also supply auxiliary hardware to support military fight...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has secured a $111.9 million contract to provide general-purpose tritonal bomb hardware to the U.S. Army. The military branch obligated the full contract amount to procure Mk-80 series bomb components from General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, the Department of Defense said Friday. Army Contracti...
