South Korea's defense acquisition program administration expects to finalize an estimated $878M foreign military sales contract with the U.S. government to procure a dozen MH-60R Seahawk naval helicopters built by Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, Defense News reported Wednesday....
Amazon Web Services called on a judge in a redacted court filing to nullify the Department of Defense’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Nextgov reported Wednesday....
Arvind Krishna, CEO and a board member of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of the technology company, effective Jan. 1. He will succeed Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, who will retire by the end of December after a nearly 40-year career with IBM....
An ASRC Federal subsidiary will help NASA announce research opportunities, collect and review proposals and assist in the selection of applications for awards under the potential five-year, $212M Research and Education Support Services recompete contract. Huntsville, Alabama-based ASRC Federal Agile Decision Sciences will also provide information te...
Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services provider, and software development company Sevatec have merged to form a combined organization that will provide tech platforms and services to help federal government clients address complex IT challenges. Mehul Sanghani, founder and CEO of Octo, said the transaction creates ...
The chief security information officer for the Department of Defense acquisition and sustainment has begun to review the integration of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements into U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency contracts slated to be awarded late next year....
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has landed a five-year, $70M contract to help NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center integrate sensor technology onto unmanned aircraft. The company will perform engineering, production and technical services under the Global Hawk Skyrange program aimed at demonstrating an alternative approach to collect data with ...
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Space for Lockheed Martin, was presented with his 2020 Wash100 Award on Tuesday. Ambrose earned his fifth Wash100 Award for driving the company’s satellite capabilities as well as the nation’s upcoming lunar and space exploration missions. This marks the fifth Wash100 Award win for Ambrose and the four...
The U.S. Army has awarded the National Spectrum Consortium a potential $2.5B prototype other transaction agreement to help coordinate research and development projects designed to improve spectrum utilization, advance microelectronics and upgrade communications infrastructure to enable protected and resilient networks....
The State Department has cleared a potential $500M foreign military sale of L3Harris Technologies-built (NYSE: LHX) mission systems for integration onto Gulfstream G550 aircraft to support Italy's airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare missions....
