Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $524.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead items, components and support services needed to build the 15th and 16th batches of F-35 aircraft for the Italian military. The procurement funds are for equipment and efforts required for manufacturing 14 units of the aircraft’s c...
In the U.S. Army’s modernization journey, the cloud is playing an increasingly important role. Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said that in the future fight, data will be the Army’s ammunition, and the cloud will serve as the next warfighting platform. Although the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability pr...
HII (NYSE: HII) will research, develop, test and evaluate emerging technologies for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency under a potential five-year, $127 million task order awarded under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center multiple-award contract. The company said Wednesday it will develop hardware and software capabilities, co...
In recent years, the Department of the Air Force has made significant strides in its modernization journey, but the service is still dealing with lingering issues, alongside emerging ones, as it continues to stretch its area of responsibility over two of the world’s largest, most quickly evolving domains. The DAF’s number one challenge today is...
Lumen Technologies’ (NYSE: LUMN) government arm has won a potential 10-year, $1.5 billion contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide end-to-end transmission capabilities and related services for the Defense Information System Network Indo-Pacific. DISN Indo-Pacific serves as the Defense of Defense’s consolidated telecommunic...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential five-year, $3.29 billion contract from the Missile Defense Agency to design, build, test and deploy a next-generation weapon system for defending against ballistic missile strikes. The company will aim to produce Ground-Based Midcourse Defense software and hardware that would exceed the performance of...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Michael Conlin, chief technology officer of Definitive Logic, was appointed chair of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform Task Force, a team formed by the American Society of Military Comptrollers to promote the Department of Defense’s PPBE reform awareness, ExecutiveBiz reported. Conlin...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a five-year, $213.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help modernize an F-35 data center located at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The company will perform engineering, maintenance, logistics and material support work for the modernization of the Australia Canada United Kingdom Reprogramming Laboratory...
As the U.S. Air Force continues its aggressive pursuit of modernization and prepares for the future fight, the head of the service wants to put words into action and get meaningful military capabilities into the hands of warfighters faster than ever before. “I’m not very interested in experimentations or demos. I’m prepared to accept r...
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