A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
BAE Systems’ land and armaments business will manufacture an additional 30 amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps after the service branch exercised full-rate production contract options worth $153.7 million. The options are part of a modification that will also cover the costs of fielding and support services and will put the c...
ExecutiveBiz featured Bill Marion, a managing director at Accenture Federal Services, in its recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He talked about how digital platforms are accelerating business operations and in connection, are driving growth across the defense and federal space. The Q&A also tackled the importance of human-...
Enlightenment Capital has purchased Agile Defense, a Reston, Virginia-based company focused on providing digital transformation and information technology platforms and services to the Department of Defense and other federal government customers. Agile Defense has been offering enterprise IT, DevSecOps, cloud migration support, compliance as a servi...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction prototype agreement modifications to continue the development and refinement of the companies’ respective concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor. Both contractors will work to polish their prototypes for the â€...
Seventh Dimension has won a five-year, $137.1 million contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to support a military education center at Fort Bragg in North Carolina that helps soldiers hone their tactical skills. The company will perform work for the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and 1st Special Warfare Training Group,...
Four companies have won positions on a U.S. Navy blanket purchase agreement to compete for up to $52 million in command and control processor orders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. Each contractor is eligible to manufacture as many as 72 C2P systems for the service branch under the firm-fixed-price BPA, the Department of...
The board of directors at Battelle has appointed Kirkland “Kirk” Donald, a 37-year U.S. Navy veteran, to succeed John Welch as chairman. Welch, who has held the chairman role since 2012, will retire from the nonprofit applied science and technology development company after 21 years of service, Battelle said Tuesday. Donald has served as...
The General Services Administration has posted a draft request for proposal for the follow-on to its One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contracting vehicle and is seeking industry comments to inform the development of the OASIS+ Program. The release moves the agency closer to launching the next generation acquisition vehicle for comple...
The State Department has cleared a potential $700 million sale of up to 72 modernized Patriot missile systems and associated equipment to the Swiss government. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed foreign military sales agreement that will include trainers, skid kits, canister consumables, launcher stati...
