Don Graves, deputy secretary at the Department of Commerce, met with CEOs of nine space situational awareness companies to seek ideas on how industry could help build and implement a Traffic Coordination System for Space, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The free space traffic management service is one of the government’s initiatives outsi...
The U.S. Space Force has begun seeking proposals for a potential five-year, $350 million contract for the procurement of innovation, integration and information support services. A notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov states that the 3IS III contract covers information technology, wargaming and combat training support services for Space Delta 12 and its...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will perform non-recurring engineering work for an F-35 flight science test aircraft replacement project under a $320 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The company will engineer systems to support the production of F-35A, F-35B and F-35C jets intended for testing use by the Navy, Air Force, Mar...
Chris Soong, former chief information officer at HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies business, has been elevated to the positions of executive vice president and CIO at the Newport News, Virginia-headquartered company. His promotion is effective April 1 and he will succeed Bharat Amin, who is set to retire at the end of March after a...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) plans to realign its four current businesses into three focused segments – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon – as part of efforts to drive the company’s technology synergies, market growth and financial targets. Christopher Calio, chief operating officer of Raytheon, will assume additiona...
Srini Iyer, former senior vice president and chief technology officer at ManTech, has been appointed to a similar dual role at the health business group of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS). Iyer joined Leidos after taking “a brief sabbatical,” according to his LinkedIn post published Tuesday. He worked at ManTech from June 2015 to October 2022...
Crucial for interoperability with international allies, mission partner environments are shared communications spaces that allow for ease of collaboration with aligned governments. Joint All Domain Command and Control is the U.S. Department of Defense’s initiative to achieve communications cross-functionality between all of the country’s deploye...
DMI has purchased Simplex Mobility for an undisclosed sum in a transaction that expands DMI’s presence in the managed mobility services market. Rocky Thurston, chief operating officer of DMI, said in a statement released Tuesday the transaction will enable the company to offer a managed service offering meant to help clients monitor, transform...
A task force co-chaired by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation has released its final report on the establishment of a national infrastructure that would expand access to computational resources, educational tools and data for artificial intelligence researchers and students. The National Artif...
CloudShape has received a $144 million contract to continue providing the U.S. Agency for International Development with hybrid cloud services in support of its enterprise data center and disaster recovery systems. The company said Tuesday it will help USAID transition its data centers and applications to a secure multi-cloud environment to enhance ...
