Sarcos Technology and Robotics (Nasdaq: STRC and STRCW) has established an artificial intelligence-focused business segment to cater to the demands of the defense market, and selected Denis Garagic, the company’s chief technology officer, to lead the new unit. The Advanced Technologies division will market Sarcos’ AI and machine learning...
Thirteen additional vendors will compete for work under a $950 million U.S. Air Force contract vehicle to build and demonstrate Joint All Domain Command and Control technologies for air, land, space, sea, cyber and electromagnetic spectrum operations. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award encompasses the development and operation of mult...
Collins Aerospace will perform tactical mission network services in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command under a $62 million contract. The RTX (NYSE: RTX) business will provide SOCOM’s Technology Applications Program Office with logistics assistance and life-cycle support for avionics and cockpit systems over a five-year period, the ...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has begun seeking proposals for the second iteration of its accelerator program to advance the rapid development and commercialization of medical countermeasures. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov states that BARDA Accelerator Network 2.0 aim...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has booked a five-year, $90 million contract to help a National Institutes of Health organization study environmental factors affecting public health. ASRC Federal Data Solutions will provide research data management and reporting support services to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ translatio...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a $91 million task order to update hardware and software for the U.S. Navy’s V-22 aircraft logistics information technology system. The task will cover research, development, test and evaluation support to the LOG-IT product line under Naval Air Systems Command, SAIC said Tuesd...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will engineer systems for the U.S. Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missile system modernization program under a $165.9 million task order. Under the three-year award, APL will also continue to research and develop specialized functions to support the Sentinel weapon system, the Dep...
Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ‘s public sector and chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Quantum Group, was named inaugural member of the board of advisers at private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners. As advisory board members, Sovada and four other leaders from the defense and government services industry will provide Blues...
Eleven companies have been named in the latest batch of NASA’s Tipping Point partners that will develop technologies that could support lunar surface and space exploration missions. The agency said Tuesday it expects to contribute a total of $150 million to fund the projects and each award recipient will shoulder at least 10 to 25...
RTX (NYSE: RTX), formerly Raytheon Technologies, posted $18.3 billion in fiscal 2023 second quarter sales, up 12 percent from the prior-year period, and saw its adjusted earnings per share increase 11 percent to $1.29 during the quarter. The Arlington, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said Tuesday its backlog at the end of the quarter...
