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U.S. Space Command leaders have emphasized the importance of intelligence data, commercial technology and workforce diversity in its mission to help other combatant commands protect the country’s space assets from adversarial threats. Sean Kirkpatrick, deputy director of intelligence at SPACECOM, said the U.S. must leverage space technology be...

CASS Professional Services and Omega Aerial Refueling Services have won positions on a $900.08 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support domestic and international defense customers in transferring fuel from a tanker to another aircraft. The two companies will vie for task orders to provide air-to-air refueling support to i...

Anduril Industries has secured a potential five-year, $99 million production other transaction agreement from the Defense Innovation Unit to make its counter-unmanned aircraft systems available for purchase by service branches. The P-OT agreement allows the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps to buy and sustain AndurilR...

Frank Kendall, who served as acquisition chief at the Department of Defense from May 2012 to January 2017, has been confirmed by the Senate to assume the U.S. Air Force’s top civilian position. He will be the 26th secretary of the Air Force and will replace John Roth, who has held the SecAF role on...

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded three companies positions on a $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply various types of commercial metal products to U.S. military branches as part of DLA’s Metals Tailored Logistics Support program. DLA received six responses for the competitive acquisition program and s...

Braxton Technologies, now part of Parsons (NYSE: PSN), has secured a $139.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Space Force to continue ground-based satellite systems support at the Space and Missiles Systems Center. The company is helping the service branch prototype, integrate and manage network, infrastructure, architecture and hardware s...

Parsons‘ (NYSE: PSN) government services business has won a 10-year, $953 million contract to build, operate and maintain a layered base security system for U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa. The company will employ air base air defense equipment at various U.S. military installations throughout the European and African continents, t...

Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek, was featured on Monday in a highly informative Q&A session with ExecutiveBiz. Plexico, a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient and GovCon Expert, discussed the potential short and long-term implications of the recent cancellation of the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise D...

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing air and missile defense radar systems for installation on U.S. Navy ships under a potential $781 million contract modification. This award for AN/SPY-6(V) integration and production support services has a $67.7 million face value and will reach the ceiling amount if the military branch ex...