Rocket propulsion developer Ursa Major has named Will Roper, former assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the U.S. Air Force, to the company’s board of directors. He joins the venture-backed startup company as he aims to help the industry bridge an innovation gap between commercial and national security missions, Urs...
Michael Rutkowski, a 29-year U.S. Army veteran and a former executive at customer management technology provider MCI, has joined B3 Group as director of strategic initiatives. He will be responsible for growing B3’s business relationships in the federal sector and its product modernization efforts, the company said Wednesday. The retired colon...
A judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims turned down motions by the Department of Defense and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to dismiss Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) lawsuit challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith’s decision me...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) posted sales of $15.3 billion and earnings per share of $0.90 for the first quarter of its 2021 fiscal year. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based defense and aerospace contractor said Tuesday its defense segment backlog at the end of FY 2021 Q1 was $65.2 billion. Major bookings for the quarter include $1.4 billion...
VTG will produce command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems for a U.S. Navy-operated network integration engineering facility under a potential five-year, $116 million contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific covers C4ISR produ...
President Joe Biden has nominated Heidi Shyu, who was the U.S. Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology from 2012 to 2016, to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering. Shyu serves on the boards of multiple technology and investment companies, such as Auterion Government Sol...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) missiles and fire control business has secured a $214.7 million contract modification to continue modernization of the U.S. Army’s Multiple Launch Rocket System. The service branch used fiscal 2021 missile procurement funds on this award covering M270A2 MLRS work, the Department of Defense said Tuesday....
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President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $107 million contract modification to help the U.S. Air Force deploy telemetry and termination platforms for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company will support implementation work to meet the launch schedule of the USAF’s Flight Test Telemetry Termination Rapid Fielding progra...
