The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council has announced the appointment of government and industry leaders Scott Simpson, Sandy Barsky and Terrell Russell to its technology acquisition program, FedScoop reported Wednesday. Simpson, digital transformation lead at the Department of Homeland Security, has assumed the role of gov...
The board of directors for the Association of the U.S. Army has nominated Christopher Kubasik, vice chair and CEO of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), and Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, to serve as directors on the board. AUSA said Tuesday Kubasik would succeed William Brown, who...
Tactical Air Support will reconfigure and modernize Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) F-5 aircraft to meet the requirements of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps under a five-year, $265.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Department of Defense said Friday 16 F-5E and six F-5F Tiger II fighter jets will be transformed from th...
Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett, commanding general of U.S. Army Cyber Command, is scheduled to headline a July 12 virtual forum to discuss how the service branch is working to advance its capabilities in the strategic digital environment. Barrett became the fifth top uniformed officer over ARCYBER in May and leads the Army organization responsible for...
The U.S. Army has launched a competition to come up with a detailed design and build and test prototypes for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program. The third and fourth phases of the OMFV program will involve efforts to mature vehicle designs and verify the performance of prototypes during a limited user test and other...
Booz Allen Hamilton has received pushback from the U.S. Department of Justice on its March agreement to purchase data science, intelligence and cybersecurity contracting company EverWatch Corp. In the form of a civil antitrust lawsuit made public on Wednesday, the DOJ is asserting that the acquisition violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Sectio...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $429.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to maintain and modernize its Black Hawk multirole helicopters. Sikorsky will conduct maintenance and overhaul work in support of the service branch’s UH-60 Black Hawk utility aircraft through June 28, 2027, the Department of ...
Mark Dankberg, co-founder and executive chairman of Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT), will return to his roles as chairman and CEO of the company starting July 1. Viasat President and CEO Richard Baldridge will transition to the newly created role of vice chairman and will focus on finalizing the Inmarsat acquisition, manage execution strategy and integration ...
Elbit Systems (Nasdaq: ESLT) has booked a pair of contracts worth $768 million combined to supply a combat networked system and airborne munition guidance kits to unnamed customers in the Asia-Pacific region. The first award, valued at $548 million over four years, is for an integrated system comprising networking middleware, command and control and...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a contract from the U.S. Army to develop a prototype of a tactical ground station designed to facilitate long-range precision targeting by detecting and tracking threats. The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node will collect data from terrestrial, space and aerial sensors and deliver targetable d...
