The General Services Administration is calling for industry nominations to a new committee that will be tasked with advising federal agencies on cloud adoption and security matters. Interested private sector professionals have until Feb. 9 to nominate themselves to become part of the 15-member Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee, the agency said...
A Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary will manufacture up to 64 multi-engine training systems to replace the U.S. Navy’s T-44C Pegasus trainer platform under a potential $677.2 million contract. Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday the branch initially ordered 10 aircraft for approximately $113.1 million through the firm-fixed-price c...
The Department of Defense has made changes to the Autonomy in Weapon Systems directive to reflect DOD’s continuous efforts to develop policies on military uses of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems as well as changes across the department over the last 10 years. The DoD Directive 3000.09 was developed to prevent unintended engagements ...
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...
