The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget have issued a memorandum outlining the current administration’s research and development priorities to guide federal agencies as they formulate their budget submissions for fiscal year 2025. One of the multiagency R&D priorities is advancing trustwo...
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, said the Department of Defense has placed task orders worth $200 million combined under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract since the award to four vendors was announced in December 2022, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. He gave the JWCC procurement vehicle up...
BAE Systems is in discussions with Westminster, Colorado-based Ball Corp. (NYSE: BALL) to purchase the latter’s aerospace division in a potential deal worth more than $5 billion. If an agreement is reached, the British defense contractor would take over the business that manufactures instruments and sensors for military, aerospace and national...
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) division will supply tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided missiles to the U.S. Army under a three-year, $322.5 million contract. Raytheon Land and Air Defense Systems will provide the TOW 2B variant of the long-range anti-armor, anti-fortification and anti-amphibious landing weapon system as part of the fixed-price-in...
The first chapters of Jason Schulman’s career were in commercial sales, until he had a revelation prompted by a “spiritual awakening” at a Neil Young concert, that he needed to say “yes” to more opportunities. Afterward, he decided to pursue an opportunity in his employer’s public sector organization supporting the federal government. Th...
Spectrum Enterprise, a Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR) business and a provider of networking, fiber technology and managed services, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with AOC Connect to further expand its offerings to support the technology requirements of federal government customers. AOC Connect acquired Charter Communications...
The U.S. Department of Defense is deeply concerned about and invested in integrating their technologies, data and systems. This undertaking relates directly to the Joint All Domain Command and Control initiative, which aims to interconnect communication capabilities throughout the various domains, as well as the mission partner environment, which em...
The Association of the U.S. Army has welcomed Lisa Atherton, president and CEO of Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell business, as the latest addition to the organization’s board of directors. Atherton replaced Mitch Snyder, a Bell veteran who retired from the company in April and the AUSA board, the non-profit said Friday. The new board director...
Martin Klein, former chief operating officer of the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, has rejoined ECS to serve as vice president of analytics and AI responsible for the company’s overseeing strategic digital transformation initiatives in the defense and intelligence markets. The three-decade U.S. Army veteran...
Government contracts awarded by Air Force Research Lab have since been an effective collaboration between the government and private sectors. The purpose of these research and development programs is to advance technical and scientific expertise and apply what is gained to achieve national and agency goals The Air Force Research Laboratory (A...
