The acceleration of technology development in the modern era has presented a myriad of new challenges that have transformed fundamental elements of the Department of Homeland Security’s mission. A panel of experts at GovCon Wire’s Defending the Homeland: Science & Technology Forum said Tuesday that DHS has embraced its own evolutio...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business will engineer the combat system of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers under a one-year, $308.5 million contract option. The funds will also cover miscellaneous items and travel activities that support work on the fleet’s mission systems and equipm...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) will continue to help the U.S. Space Force modernize and sustain a key military platform for monitoring deep space objects after the service branch exercised a fourth contract option valued at $145 million. The award comes after an L3Harris-led industry team updated a command-and-control center, telescopes and a pha...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $313.4 million contract modification to perform additional support services for the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornet service life extension program. The company will perform engineering work to extend the F/A-18 E/F’s active life by 4,000 flight hours to 10,000 and equip the aircraft with Block III avionics confi...
Andrew Moore, former director of artificial intelligence at Google’s cloud business, has joined U.S. Central Command to provide guidance on applying AI, robotics, cloud computing and data analytics to the CENTCOM mission in multiple regions. Moore became the command’s first adviser on these technology areas and will share his expertise w...
NASA has released a draft request for proposals for the second iteration of a potential eight-year contract to provide logistics support for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The planned MSFC Logistics Support Services II contract will be a total 8(a) small business set-aside program covering support across the areas of managem...
Cybersecurity firm Forcepoint is looking to divest its government security unit for over $2 billion and is working with Citigroup on the potential sale as the company looks to focus on building up its commercial business, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources said no deal has been signed since discussions over the potential sale are still in...
A joint venture between KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Intuitive Machines has booked a five-year, $719 million contract to engineer systems for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Space & Technology Solutions will develop and test new space and scientific technologies under the third iteration of the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Se...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said that DOD will introduce a new “effort” to facilitate industry collaboration in bringing commercial space platforms to the U.S. warfighter mission, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “The goal of this effort is to incorporate [t...
Nicole Robinson, a nearly two-decade space and satellite communications industry veteran, has been named chief strategy officer at Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL). She will work with Comtech’s Strategic Council to oversee new technology development and implementation efforts, drive global growth initiatives and identify business oppo...
