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Agile Defense, a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, has purchased XOR Security for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to broaden its cybersecurity offerings for defense and national security customers. XOR Security has been providing cybersecurity engineering and operations and virtual security operation center services designed to ensur...
The U.S. Army has exercised the first option period of its other transaction agreements with four companies to review proposed designs for increment two of the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System. Griffon Aerospace, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Sierra Nevada Corp. and Texton Systems (NYSE: TXT) will go through preliminary and critical design r...
Blake Nelson, a two-decade federal information technology market veteran, has joined IT services provider T-Rex Solutions as vice president for national security growth. Nelson will oversee business development, capture and growth initiatives within T-Rex’s national security business with a focus on supporting the departments of Defense and Homela...
As modernization efforts sweep all areas of the federal government, obstacles previously hidden within legacy acquisition processes have revealed themselves, illuminating the need for a more productive approach. The public sector has acknowledged the demand for innovative new methods, and in a climate where industry technology is more influent...
BAE Systems and four other companies will compete for waterborne surface shaft repair projects under a U.S. Navy contract worth $162 million over five years. The service branch officially awarded six positions on the multiple-award contract vehicle to include BAE’s ship repair businesses in Virginia and California, according to a Department of...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems unit has won a potential $642.9 million contract to manufacture Vertical Launching System hardware for the U.S. Navy and foreign military customers. The company was granted a base firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee award valued at $194 million to supply customers with MK 41 VLS mod...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has booked a $1.1 billion contract modification from the U.S. Navy to build two Block V Virginia-class submarines. The builder will use the funds to procure long-lead-time material and major components needed for the SSN 812 and SSN 813 construction projects, General Dynamics said Tuesday. ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded six companies positions on a potential 10-year, $15 billion contract to help manage and support the distribution of medical, surgical, laboratory and dental supplies to VA medical centers and other government agencies. VA’s Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor Generation-Z Version 1 is a multiple-award, inde...
The National Reconnaissance Office has released a draft request for proposals to seek information on commercial companies that could provide remote sensing capabilities through electro-optical cameras, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “Actually, it just was announced this morning, on the electro-optical side a draft RFP came out re-looking at th...
NASA granted $98 million in Small Business Innovation Research funds to 92 companies with projects focused on mission areas such as climate science and space exploration. The awards were distributed among 112 proposals moving on to Phase II of the SBIR program, the agency said Wednesday. Among the SBIR Phase II grantees, 31 percent were...
