Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $7.63 billion contract modification to continue lot 15 production of F-35 fighter jets and technical hardware for U.S. and international defense customers. The modification covers the delivery of 129 units of the aircraft’s conventional takeoff and landing, short takeoff/vertical landing and carrier varian...
V2X (NYSE: VVX) reported $498 million in sales for the second quarter of 2022, up 6 percent from the prior-year period, and said the quarterly results for the period ended July 1 reflect contributions of Vectrus prior to the completion of its merger with The Vertex Company. In early July, Vectrus closed its all-stock merger...
Alaska Aerospace Corp. will continue to support the Missile Defense Agency’s flight test requirements under a potential $110.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Under the follow-on award, AAC will help manage launch facility and range operations at the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska located on Kodiak Island, the Depar...
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...
