Robert Fleming will take the helm of the space systems business of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), assuming the corporate vice president and sector president roles in place of Tom Wilson, on Oct. 9 Northrop said Thursday Fleming has been with the company for almost 18 years and is currently VP and general manager of the...
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...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has secured a potential seven-year, $160 million single-award contract to develop hardware and software products for the U.S. intelligence community. Mike Kushin, president of Parsons’ defense and intelligence sector, said in a statement published Thursday that the company will build on its technical expertise to help the I...
The U.S. Navy has selected eight companies out of 31 proposers for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award construction contract with a maximum amount of $1 billion, of which $23.6 million is to be obligated from fiscal year 2023 military construction funds. The contractors will provide a variety of services, including facility rep...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has begun soliciting white papers for a potential five-year, $497.9 million broad agency announcement that seeks to support research, development, integration and testing of computing technologies, architectures and techniques. The Extreme Computing BAA has four technical areas: advancing computing technology and ap...
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to procure combat vehicle fleet services from the U.S. government for $500 million as part of a Cooperative Logistics Supply Support Arrangement program, Foreign Military Sales Order II. The potential deal covers the provision of common spares and repair parts for the Saudi Arabian army&...
The Senate on Wednesday voted 83-11 to confirm Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He succeeds Army Gen. Mark Milley, a four-time Wash100 Award winner who took the helm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October 2019. The White House...
GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) has received a potential 10-year, $3.13 billion contract from the Defense Microelectronics Activity to provide microelectronic products and trusted processes for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. DMEA will obligate $17.3 million in fiscal 2022 funds for the initial task order under the firm-fixed-pri...
Jim Taiclet, CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), said the defense and aerospace contractor is in “late-stage negotiations” with a solid-rocket motor company to create a new supplier of solid rocket motor propulsion systems, DefenseNews reported Thursday. Speaking before the House Armed Services Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation subc...
The U.S. Navy has selected five companies to handle large, general construction projects under a potential $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. General construction of design-build or design-bid-build projects will support Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington’s area of responsibility in the greater ...
