Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan™s speech at a National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored briefing on hypersonics. Shanahan said Thursday at the NDIA event that hypersonic technologies need to be operationalized. œThis is about industrial...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential $92.5M contract to provide support services for H-60 multirole helicopters of the U.S. Navy as well as Australia, Denmark and Saudi Arabia under the foreign military sales program. The company will update, implement and maintain H-60 software and systems configurations under the cost...
Italy-based conglomerate Leonardo has moved to combine three divisions into a new electronics division as part of growth efforts in the defense and security technology market. Leonardo said Thursday the new business will consolidate the firm’s land and naval defence electronics, airborne and space systems and defense systems businesses. The co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 14, 2018 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has received a potential $35M task order from the U.S. Marine Corps for research and development work focused on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cyber, electronic warfare and machine learning, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 29. The company said Nov. 2...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 13, 2018 ” Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) executives Carl De Groote and Chuck Louisell have urged the U.S. military to explore technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and in-line data analytics with an agile and resilient multinetwork architecture to support mission assurance, sustained operation...
Siemens‘ U.S. federal arm will support the modernization of a steam plant at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as part of a potential 21-year, $555M energy savings performance contract from the Department of Energy. Siemens Government Technologies received a $45.8M initial task order to modernize a six-decade-old system th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 12, 2018 ” By Light Professional IT Services will work with the Department of Defense to update tools used in telecommunications operations via the Defense Information Systems Network as part of a potential $65M task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the technology refresh t...
KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) government services business will continue to provide logistics support services to the U.S. Army in Europe and the Arabian Peninsula under two task order modifications worth $114M combined. The company said Tuesday KBRwyle will help U.S. European Command manage and maintain base facilities and help the Army transport mu...
A new McAleese & Associates report says President Donald Trump appears to have expressed support to a defense budget request of $733B to $750B for fiscal year 2020 following his meeting with lawmakers and other government officials. Trump met with Defense Secretary James Mattis; National Security Adviser John Bolton; Senate Armed ...
President Donald Trump intends to nominate Gen. Mark Milley, chief of staff at the U.S. Army and a two-time Wash100 winner, as the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Defense.gov reported Saturday. Milley, who assumed his current role in August 2015, would become the 20th JCS leader and succeed U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunf...
