Space infrastructure developer Redwire (NYSE: RDW) reported a 75.3 percent year-on-year increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2023, driven in part by its contributions to commercial space launches during the period. Redwire executives held a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, highlighting $57.6 million in sales and $4.3 million in positive...
The Space Development Agency began the initial solicitation process for a space vehicle variant under the second tranche of its planned transport layer for a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. SDA plans to work with small businesses and choose at least one nonprofit research institution or a nontraditional defense contractor to build Al...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business completed its migration to the cloud by closing its final data center at the end of 2022 and has pushed the adoption of a multicloud strategy by working with several vendors to meet the company’s back-office requirements, CIO reported Friday. “We’ve gone through our digital transfo...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a five-year, $275.2 million contract to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration update and maintain ground infrastructure for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R Series constellation. The company will provide sustainment support to a system that receives data from G...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said his office will assume responsibilities for all 5G-related initiatives within DOD starting Oct. 1, and has been working with the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering to facilitate the transition, Breaking Defense repo...
The State Department has approved Germany’s request to buy heavy-lift cargo helicopters, manufactured by Boeing (NYSE: BA), from the U.S. government through a potential $8.5 billion government-to-government transaction. Germany is seeking to acquire 60 CH-47F Chinooks, 140 T55-GA-714A engines, 72 common missile warning systems and 284 secure r...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will continue to help the Missile Defense Agency maintain complex simulation and modeling platforms under a three-year, $244.7 million contract modification. This award falls under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract and includes work on advanced discrimination approaches that support MDA’s Ballistic...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Noble Supply and Logistics a $562.5 million contract modification to continue to provide maintenance, repair and operation support at various U.S. military facilities overseas. The modification exercises the first option year of a previously awarded four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract f...
Bronwyn Haley, a former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent, has been appointed vice president for the Department of Justice sector technical services contractor Steampunk. She will lead the segment under Steampunk’s homeland, commerce and justice division and brings decades of client relationships, organizational risk management and...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has started to solicit information on industry sources and their capabilities to provide support services for VA’s cybersecurity operations center. The proposed VA CSOC Next Generation II Support contract will have a nine-month base period and four 12-month options and will require the vendor to provide comprehen...
