L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $172.7 million contract to operate and sustain airborne sensor equipment for the Missile Defense Agency. The company will continue to help MDA maintain systems, plan missions, conduct flight tests and modernize technologies of the agency’s High Altitude Observatory platform, ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report outlining the components of a potential $740 billion annual defense policy bill approved by the House Armed Services Committee. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that the full House panel voted 57-2 Thursday, Sept. 2, to pass the ...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is integrating its U.S. federal team into the Azure engineering organization led by Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander as part of a reorganization to improve collaboration and better integrate platforms built for federal users into its cloud portfolio, ZDNET reported Wednesday. Rick Wagner, a 2021 Wash100 Award winn...
The head of the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office will keynote a Sept. 16 virtual forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to kick off a half-day event about ongoing government and industry efforts to develop fifth-generation wireless communications technologies. Jay Dryer was appointed to the SCO director post in January ...
Five companies secured spots on a potential $556 million U.S. Navy contract with a ceiling value of $800 million to deliver technical support for the Office of Chief of Naval Operations’ information technology department. Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), CACI International (NYSE: CACI), Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), ...
Trace Systems has won a potential five-year, $600 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to procure, integrate, install, operate and maintain communications systems for U.S. Air Forces Central Command. The Vienna, Virginia-based company will perform work throughout USAFCENT’s area of operations within Southwest Asia, the ...
Pratt & Whitney, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, has received a $736.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide military service branches and non-Department of Defense organizations with spare parts for the F-35 aircraft propulsion system. The contractor will also deliver F-135 engine modules, support equipment...
The White House and the Defense Department have signaled to prioritize initiatives that will tackle climate change through innovation in clean energy and data analytics technology. It took $3.6 billion of taxpayer’s money to replace the Marine Corps buildings in North Carolina that Hurricane Florence damaged in 2018. Not long after came Hurric...
The aviation unit of General Electric (NYSE: GE) has secured a potential five-year, $1.65 billion contract to repair, update or replace engine components for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 aircraft fleet. GE Aviation will support 17 F414 turbofan engine parts under the performance-based logistics contract from Naval Supply Systems Command, the Departm...
Eight companies have secured positions on a $2 billion contract vehicle to support the U.S. Air Force’s infrastructure design and construction missions stateside. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center determined the awardees for Pool 3 of the Architect-Engineer Next program through a competitive acquisition process reserved for small businesses,...
