The Department of Defense established on Thursday the office of the assistant secretary of defense for space policy in accordance with the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. The creation of the new position “is a change of the civilian oversight of the space enterprise that aligns with the establishment of the U.S. Space Force an...
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Arlington Capital Partners has combined AEgis Technologies, Brilligent Solutions and Applied Technology Associates to establish a new company that will offer engineering services and tech platforms to the national security community. BlueHalo will focus on providing research and development, deployment and other technical support across the areas of...
KPMG and Ernst & Young have won separate five-year contracts worth $322.2 combined to help the Department of Defense's inspector general office audit financial statements. KPMG received a $224M contract to perform audit work for U.S. Army on a labor-hour basis and EY secured $98.1M to do a similar task for the Defense Logistics Agency, DoD ...
Private equity firm DC Capital Partners has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Huntsville, Alabama-based system engineering company Hill Technical Solutions Inc. aimed at helping expand the latter's customer base and support work in the government sector....
Raytheon Technologies has secured a potential 10-year, $192M contract to help the U.S. Air Force conduct system development tests on the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile system....
The Department of Defense has issued a new strategy aimed at aligning DoD’s electromagnetic spectrum activities with the objectives of the National Defense and Security Strategies and goals of national technology and economic policies....
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a $342.1M contract modification to provide two additional KC-46A Pegasus refueling tankers to the Japanese government....
Private equity firm-backed space company Redwire has bought Longmont, Colorado-based small satellite hardware manufacturer Roccor for an undisclosed sum....
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has been awarded a one-year, $8.5 million contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop prototype mission data processing applications for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing (FORGE MDP) program, the company announced Thursday. “Maxar has decades of commercial expertise in geo...
