U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at an April 20 forum hosted by GovCon Wire Events to share his outlook for service intelligence. Trussler has served as deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare and the 68th director of naval intelligence since June 2020. He previously served...
Innovative Defense Technologies has won a potential three-year, $98.6 million contract to provide software for distributed maritime operations to the U.S. Navy. IDT will use its prototype environment designed to accommodate software development and simultaneous monitoring of change-driven effects in the software’s physical and cyber aspects, t...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $3.2 billion contract to build a family of radars designed to help the U.S. Navy defend against hostile aircraft and various missile threats. The company said Thursday it will manufacture SPY-6 hardware in solid-state, rotating and fixed-face variants for installation on seven types of Navy s...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received three separate multi-year contracts from the U.S. Navy for the development of space vehicle terminals, procurement of hardware for weapon replaceable assemblies and delivery of support services for a mine detection platform. The Department of Defense said Thursday Northrop will provide the Navy with Relay Gr...
Naval Sea Systems Command has issued a $222 million modification on a sonobuoy production contract shared between Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ERAPSCO. The two companies will compete for orders and deliver up to 18,000 units of the AN/SSQ-125A series sonobuoy to the U.S. Navy under an exercised contract option, the Department of Defense said...
Amentum has received a non-competitive contract worth $99.94 million to provide maintenance and logistics support services for aircraft assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent, Maryland. The company will receive task orders to help maintain the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18, EA-18G, MH-60S, E-2C and F-16 platforms through September 2023, the...
The State Department has approved a potential $368.53 million foreign military sale, through which Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) could provide follow-on support services and related equipment for the U.K.’s Tomahawk Weapon System. Raytheon’s missile and defense business in Tucson, Arizona, will be the prime contractor on the proposed...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $93.55 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue the company’s modernization, conversation and overhaul support for the MK15 close-in weapon system. The company’s missiles and defense unit is helping the service branch update CIWS and associated hardware, the Department ...
The U.S. Navy is working to drive the expansion of the service’s cloud environment to the tactical edge, according to Navy chief information officer Aaron Weis. Weis, a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, said edge computing capabilities top the Navy’s list of priorities as the service pushes modernization initiatives, and especially in the ...
The Department of Defense has selected Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) to complete application development work for a 5G-based warehouse project at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. An assessment team for the NBC 5G Smart Warehouse project evaluated applications from Vectrus and two other companies as part of a down-select process during the initial phase and...
