The House Armed Services Committee has established a new bipartisan task force to examine and identify vulnerabilities and threats facing the defense industrial base supply chain. Reps. Adam Smith, D-Wash., chairman of HASC, and Mike Rogers, R-Ala., ranking member of the House committee, initiated the Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force, which ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2021 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has extended a partnership with information technology company NEC to continue using the latter’s System Invariant Analysis Technology to identify potential anomalies during spacecraft development and satellite ground support operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Lockheed sa...
Patriot Contract Services has secured a potential $455.16 million contract to help the Military Sealift Command operate and maintain eight Watson-class U.S. Naval Ships used to transport ground vehicles to destinations across the globe. MSC said in an award notice posted Thursday the firm-fixed-price-award covers operations and maintenance support o...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will help the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy integrate Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile systems into military fighter aircraft under a potential 11-year, $74 million contract. The company’s missiles and defense business in Tucson, Arizona, will provide an aviation laboratory and perform flight test, ...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has secured a potential eight-year, $99 million contract to supply new transceivers to the Federal Aviation Administration for emergency ground-to-air radio communications. The company said Thursday it will replace legacy backup radios with the URC-300E system as part of the FAA’s Eme...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s investment arm, will collaborate to help 150 research teams transition ideas from laboratories to the technology production phase over the next five years through the Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative, Nextgov reported Thursday. Through EEI, the agency ...
Will Roper, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, has joined the board of advisers of air combat training technology developer Red 6 to share his expertise in support of the company’s Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System. “His in-depth knowledge of ...
James Sullivan, an information technology professional with more than two decades of experience, has been appointed executive director of NetImpact Strategies‘ federal civilian business. Sullivan will be responsible for driving NetImpact’s digital transformation strategy and growing the unit through communication, training and mentoring ...
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has acquired Canada-based satellite ground equipment provider UHP Networks in a deal that includes $24 million worth of shares as an upfront payment. As part of the agreement, Comtech will pay an additional $5 million in cash and/or stock contingent on fulfillment of certain conditions over the next 12 month...
David Ray, a former executive and more than 15-year veteran of Raytheon, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as senior vice president in charge of space business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday. In his new capacity, Ray will be responsible for strategy development and profit and loss functions within SAIC’s spa...
