Digital assets are becoming an increasingly valuable and influential aspect of the U.S. Department of Defense’s mission. Whether it’s cybersecurity fortification, electronic warfare or cloud migration, digital transformation efforts are widespread and come with a host of reforms, new programs and reinventions of preexisting systems. Here is a gu...
Amentum has won an eight-year, $475 million contract to provide maintenance and logistics support for the U.S. Navy’s F-16 aircraft fleet. The company will help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division maintain F-16A/B/C/D variants at the organizational, intermediate and depot levels, the Department of Defense said Thursday. NAWCAD recei...
A Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) subsidiary has received from the U.S. Air Force three separate one-year contracts worth $110.5 million combined to provide data-as-a-service platforms to support command and control and decision-making operations. Palantir USG will support the Headquarters Air Force by enabling HAF to integrate personnel, health,...
Noblis has invested in space technology developer Scout Space through the nonprofit science and technology company’s venture arm. Mile Corrigan, president and CEO of Noblis, said in a statement released Wednesday that both companies recognize the need for better space-based datasets as situational awareness in the domain is becoming a key requ...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a five-year, $125.5 million contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command maintain crisis response electronic communication systems. The company will support operational requirements for crisis response and interoperable command, control, communications, computers and combat electronic s...
Three companies have won spots on a potential nine-year, $246 million contract to inspect, repair and test complete engines that power fighter jets commonly used for the Navy’s simulated air-to-air combat training. Aero Turbine, RUAG Space and U.S. Turbine & Accessory will compete for individual orders to perform support work on J85-GE-21C...
Space is undeniably one of the newest and most contested warfighting domains today. While commercial activity in space continues to rapidly accelerate the speed of innovation in the domain, new threats are simultaneously emerging and threatening the United States’ position in the global competition for space dominance. In response to rising space ...
The United States now regularly and publicly participates in cyber warfare. However, 20 years ago — even as recently as a decade ago — this was highly classified information, not permitted in the Title 10 or Title 50 spaces. It has only been in recent years that such practices have become more normalized and widely...
It’s a cliché at this point to say the government moves slowly in terms of technology modernization and procurement of new tools and services. However, sometimes societal occurrences and world events come knocking and shake bureaucracy out of its glacial processes, forcing the federal sector to act sooner and faster. The combined effects of major...
GE Aerospace will provide the Defense Logistics Agency supplies related to an engine product series that powers military fighter and bomber aircraft under a $422.8 million contract. The sole-source acquisition contract for F101, F110 and F118 engines has a firm-fixed-price, requirements-type structure, the Defense Department said Friday. Defense app...
