The board of directors at Eutelsat America Corp. has appointed Kevin Steen, president and CEO of OneWeb Technologies, to lead the combined EAC and OneWeb Technologies entity. He will serve as president and CEO of both EAC and OneWeb Technologies and oversee the integration of the companies’ teams and businesses following the completion of thei...
The U.S. Air Force has begun seeking proposals for a potential $5.7 billion follow-on multiple-award contract to provide combat air forces contracted air support services to help protect U.S. assets against advanced airborne threats. CAF CAS II seeks to procure non-personal services for realistic advanced adversary air threats and close air support ...
BAE Systems has secured a pair of contract modifications worth $104 million combined to build additional amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it will produce and deliver production representative test vehicles to support government testing of the ACV’s recovery variant in 2025 under a $79 million contra...
Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) has secured a potential five-year, $177.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support services for several combat vehicles. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers support for Abrams M1 tank family of vehicles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, M88 Recovery FoVs, Assault Breacher Vehicles and Joint Assault Bridges, the...
A BAE Systems business segment has received a potential $181.9 million contract modification to manufacture and deliver additional amphibious combat vehicles to the U.S. Marine Corps. With the modification, Marine Corps Systems Command exercised options for full-rate production of 34 ACV personnel variants and related fielding, test equipment and su...
Brian Berger, president of Cytellix, said merging governance, risk and compliance with managed detection and response could enable organizations to improve their cybersecurity posture. “When companies combine GRC and MDR capabilities, however, they create a measurable and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity risk and compliance,” Berger wrote...
The State Department has approved a pair of foreign military sale requests worth $219.3 million combined from the government of Italy’s request to procure an air-launched precision strike weapon and air-to-air missile systems from the U.S. government. Italy requested to procure 12 RTX-manufactured (NYSE: TRX) AIM-120C-8 advanced medium-range a...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2024 Wash100 Award recipient, said the Pentagon had taken a warfighter-centric approach to innovation to enable the rapid delivery of combat capabilities to U.S. forces worldwide. “Along the way, we’ve never wavered from our ultimate objective: delivering safe and reliab...
William LaPlante, under secretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said the Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) B-21 Raider stealth bomber has been given the green light to kick off low-rate initial production following its initial flight test in 2023....
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received an approximately $121.5 million performance-based-logistics requirements contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for B-1 Bomber AN/APQ-164 offensive radar low observable antennas. Requirements will be delivered to the U.S. Air Force through Dec. 31, 2028, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The firm...
