Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will help military customers activate F-35 sites and conduct initial aircraft sustainment efforts under a two-year, $765.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command. The award covers the provision of pilot flight equipment, post-ejection survival training...
It is fairly common knowledge that the defense industry has historically lagged behind the technological progress of the private sector. This is largely due to the intentional stance of allowing citizens to be the first adopters of new technologies while those in the defense sphere take a “wait and see” approach. This strategy ensures that...
Over the last few years, modernization in the federal government has shifted from a helpful yet optional initiative to a necessary and critical component of defense, intelligence and national security missions, among others. As federal leaders adopt new technologies, methodologies and practices to stay ahead of the curve, they’re also discovering ...
Throughout its many agencies and departments, the U.S. government is currently in the midst of a push toward evolving its systems and tools. Many federal entities are overhauling legacy — or established, often physical storage-based — architectures to make way for cloud-derived systems that are seen as functionally efficient and economically pru...
William Lynn, CEO of Arlington, Virginia-based Leonardo DRS, said he believes trading on the stock market will give the company “much more strategic flexibility to build” and an opportunity to generate cash to fund future acquisitions, Breaking Defense reported Monday. In June, Leonardo DRS and Israel-based RADA Electronic Industries (Nasdaq: RA...
The global supply chain has come under heightened scrutiny and concern in the past few years, largely due to disruptions caused by COVID-19. As U.S. leaders turn their focus toward building and maintaining a secure, resilient supply chain, federal agencies are taking a closer look at the vendors they partner with in national security missions....
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics segment will develop a common reprogramming tool for the F-35 program under a $111.1 million contract modification awarded by the U.S. Navy. The business will establish network connections to create the CRT and select a service-oriented architecture to modernize software and hardware for use by aircraf...
Rich Wilkinson, senior director of industry marketing at Unanet, has published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program exploring the results from the 2022 GAUGE Report and how they’re directly impacting the state of how government contractors are driving their businesses in comparison to their comp...
An MBDA-Diehl joint venture has received a firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver updated Rolling Airframe Missile system and spare replacement components to the German navy. The award to RAM-System will support the recertification of the RAM Block 2 variant under a cooperative memorandum of understanding between the two countries, ...
Established in February through the combination of separate, active organizations, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office was formed on the basis that isolated tools and gadgets cannot alone solve the Department of Defense’s greatest challenges. “It’s not technology, it’s not always necessarily even the capability...
