As the rapid development of emerging technologies continues to have transformative impacts on today’s battlespace, U.S. defense agencies have recently shifted their priorities to reflect an exponentially increasing demand for modernization, optimization and cybersecurity. The Department of Defense created a new acquisition framework in January...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business has won a $340 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force operate and maintain a sea-based active electronically scanned array radar system. The company will support the Cobra King radar system‘s mobile sensors under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ...
Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, will join Boeing (NYSE: BA) on Nov. 8 to serve as vice president of business development with oversight of the company’s defense, space and government services sales organization. She will directly report to Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and securi...
Forescout Technologies will continue to help the Department of Defense protect its networks and other critical assets from cyberthreats under a multiyear contract in support of DOD’s Comply-to-Connect program. The company said Thursday it will provide its cybersecurity platform to enable DOD to control and manage access to traditional information ...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure additional Sikorsky-built multirole naval helicopters along with related equipment and support services under a potential $985 million foreign military sales agreement. Australia intends to buy a dozen MH-60R Seahawk units as part of the country’s homeland defense and region...
Frank Finelli, a managing director at The Carlyle Group and a previous Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the public sector advisory board of Santa Clara, California-based enterprise data protection company Veritas Technologies. He and three other newly appointed advisory board members will advise the company on the new cybersecurity executive orde...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and SupplyCore have each received a $90 million bridge contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to continue the companies’ maintenance, repair and operations support at U.S. military facilities. Both contractors will provide MRO supplies to the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and...
Jason Weiss, a senior information technology modernization professional, has been appointed chief software officer at the Department of Defense, FedScoop reported Friday. He will lead efforts to modernize legacy applications and implement modern software development practices across DOD. Weiss joined the Pentagon in January as director of software m...
A Fluor (NYSE: FLR) subsidiary has received a $1.16 billion award from the U.S. Navy to extend propulsion work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory through fiscal year 2022. The military service exercised a cost-plus-fixed-fee option on its contract with Fluor Marine Propulsion, the Department of Defense said Thursday. FMP initially won a potential $13.0...
General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary has secured a nearly $284 million contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to provide helicopter engine supplies to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. The T-700 firm-fixed-price, requirements-type contract has a base performance period of five years and three months, ending on Dec. 31, 2026, ...
