CRDF Global has unveiled its South East Asia regional hub office in the Philippines to support the nonprofit cybersecurity organization’s programs related to global health and economic development, international security cooperation and international exchanges. Regional Director Mike Byfield will oversee the Manila-based office, which will be part...
Jamie Landers, former director of business development for advanced programs at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) as vice president of business development. She announced her new role at the satellite imagery provider in a LinkedIn post Tuesday. Landers led BD functions for Lockheed’s Advanced Program Deve...
European company SES and U.S.-based Intelsat are in talks about a “possible combination” of the two satellite service industry players, the Luxembourg-headquartered satellite telecommunications provider confirmed Wednesday amid reports of the potential multi-billion transaction. According to Bloomberg News, the companies are nearing a de...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) received separate contracts worth $116 million combined to design carrier-based, air-launched hypersonic missile systems for the U.S. Navy. Both companies have been tasked with conducting technical maturation and development efforts under the Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive An...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has booked a potential five-year, $94 million contract to help the U.S. Cyber Command develop command, control, communications and computer systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee award covers capabilities development support to CYBERCOM’s J6 C4 Systems and Chief Information Officer Directorate, Parsons said Tuesday. CYBERCOM prev...
NASA is looking to consolidate contracts for acquiring cloud services from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google into a single reseller delivery order worth potentially $685.8 million. The consolidated order for agency-wide cloud services will be open to small business resellers capable of providing access to all three cloud service providers un...
ManTech has won a five-year, $133.1 million contract to perform analysis work for the U.S. Navy’s Warfare Effectiveness Department. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ManTech will analyze the design and engineering performance of warfighting capabilities to help the branch ensure systems meet its mission requirements, ...
Technology companies such as Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Google are investing in generative artificial intelligence tools to drive revenue performance in their cloud businesses, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Sources told WSJ that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has discussed how AI on the Azure cloud platform could hel...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has won a potential $1.2 billion contract from the U.S. Army for Patriot Missile System fire units. Army Contracting Command received two offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and obligated the whole contract amount using foreign military sales funds for fiscal year 2023, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. W...
Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
