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...
The Oasis Systems-ERC combination has officially adopted the name Astrion with a focus on helping defense, space and civilian government agencies address cybersecurity, mission support, systems engineering and digital challenges. In May 2022, private equity firm Brightstar Capital Partners combined its portfolio company ERC with Oasis to offer compl...
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business segment has secured a $211.5 million contract modification to produce and deliver additional amphibious combat vehicles to the U.S. Marine Corps. Marine Corps Systems Command exercised full-rate production contract options for 40 ACV Personnel variants and related test equipment, fielding and support se...
The Department of Defense will advance the development of a B61 nuclear gravity bomb variant to meet the needs of an evolving security environment as discussed in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration would develop and produce the proposed B61-13 bomb as part of efforts to strength...
The Office of Management and Budget has begun soliciting feedback on draft guidance meant to modernize and strengthen the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The draft memorandum seeks to define the scope of cloud offerings subject to FedRAMP, foster a consistent and transparent process for conducting security assessment and authoriza...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has secured a potential seven-year, $1.05 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy integrate a combat management system across the Surface Force. The defense contractor will provide systems engineering and software integration services for the Integrated Combat System supporting the N...
Aerospace is combining its space and defense systems business segments into a single organization to align its end-to-end operations with the structure and strategic direction of its Department of Defense customers. Marty Whelan, senior vice president of the defense systems group since 2018, will lead the integrated business unit, which will unify t...
