U.S. military branches are ramping up efforts to help the Department of Defense achieve objectives it has set for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy. To enable data sharing across the different services within the agency, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a strategy document for the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Dom...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 6th Annual Army Forum on Thursday to bring together some of the most notable federal and industry leaders to discuss how the Army will drive future capabilities to meet the demand and speed of the digital battlefield. Christopher Lowman, senior official performing the duties of the U.S. Army undersecretary,...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $157 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency update an integrated architecture that offers commanders a global view of the battlespace. The company said Tuesday it will perform Spiral 8.2-7 upgrade work on MDA’s Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications system to help Ground-B...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NASA have finalized a potential $935 million contract to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost module for the agency’s Gateway lunar space station as part of the Artemis program. Northrop said Friday it will also integrate the HALO module with the Power and Propulsion Element being developed by Maxar Technolog...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has begun to seek proposals for the second iteration of a potential 10-year, $979.8 million contract to provide satellite communications services under the Commercial Broadband Satellite Program. The CBSP Satellite Services Contract II seeks to support the U.S. Navy’s commercial satcom requirements by enablin...
The U.S. Air Force has named 29 additional contractors as awardees on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
“Technology innovation is the battlefield of today.” Amid the pandemic, the Department of Air Force indicated in its fiscal 2019/2020 Acquisition Biennial Report how it developed innovative strategies to carry on with its missions and integrate digital engineering into its operations. From executing the pioneer end-to-end demonstration of the Ad...
As the role of information technology (IT) grows throughout the federal government, the U.S. Air Force wants to streamline and optimize its acquisition process through digital transformation. The service branch is currently working to incorporate digital engineering, agile software development and open system architectures to achieve its acquisition...
The U.S. Air Force is enacting major digital transformation initiatives in an attempt to streamline and optimize its acquisition process. Such as incorporating digital engineering, agile software development and open system architectures that will provide better access to emerging technology, reduce acquisition timelines. During Potomac Officers Clu...
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, received his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on Monday. With this year’s honor, Krone has received his eighth consecutive Wash100 Award, the most in the award’s highly prestigious history. As the only GovCon exe...
