The U.S. Air Force has awarded Mission Technologies, an HII (NYSE: HII) division, a five-year, $244 million task order to install Minotaur software products in U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard systems. The contract covers research, development, test and evaluation services for the integration of Minotaur on maritime platforms used in radars, ...
As 5G communications technology advances, it’s opening up a new world of capabilities for missions across the defense landscape and within the public sector. In a new exclusive video interview, JMA Wireless’ Rishi Bhaskar sat down with Executive Mosaic to talk about what’s on the horizon for 5G innovation and why it’s so important at this ...
The U.S. Department of Defense famously established the Joint Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office in 2022 to formally indicate their commitment to embracing AI. But the Pentagon hasn’t stopped there — in the nearly year and a half since the CDAO’s creation, defense officials have demonstrated a persistent interest in implementing — an...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International With its broad national security role, the DOD has been a pioneer in the development of numerous innovative cybersecurity solutions. This makes sense given its lengthy history and the quantity and caliber of resources devoted to both research and development and the acquisition of technol...
Vincent DiFronzo, senior vice president of SAIC’s Air Force, Combatant Command and Department of Defense Agency unit, has been appointed chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 DOD Group. The 4×24 leadership series is the government contracting industry’s premier executive networking program. Designed to promote the sharing of ide...
QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm has secured a potential $140.2 million contract modification from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide technical, administrative and professional support services for the Department of Defense’s strategic capabilities office. The modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract has a base value o...
Virginia, Texas and California emerged as the top three states for total defense spending in fiscal year 2022, according to a report released by the Department of Defense’s office of local defense community cooperation. Florida, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Arizona are the other seven states that made the to...
The Department of Defense is in the midst of a “reluctant revolution in military affairs,” according to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth III. With the advent of modern autonomous technologies, the U.S. military is currently undergoing never-before-seen efforts to uncrew “considerable portions” o...
GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) has received a potential 10-year, $3.13 billion contract from the Defense Microelectronics Activity to provide microelectronic products and trusted processes for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. DMEA will obligate $17.3 million in fiscal 2022 funds for the initial task order under the firm-fixed-pri...
Saab‘s U.S. business arm has booked a $104 million order to supply the Department of Defense with AT4 anti-tank weapon systems and Carl-Gustaf ammunition between 2024 and 2026. The contract extends an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity framework agreement signed by DOD and Saab in 2019, which could increase in value by $422 million, the c...
