The missiles and fire control unit of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $121.6 million contract to supply the U.S. Army with components for an integrated targeting and pilotage system designed to help Apache helicopter aircrews identify targets. Under the firm-fixed-price contract, the business will deliver Modernized Target Acquisition Des...
The U.S. Army is currently undergoing what Lt. Gen. Laura Potter calls, “the most significant intel modernization in Army intelligence history,” a wave of efforts to remake and galvanize the service branch by 2030. These activities include a focus on sensor technologies, which, according to Potter, who serves as deputy chief of staff for G2...
In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucrati...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has secured a two-year, $182 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide a ground-based air defense system to Ukraine as part of a military aid package. The Department of Defense obligated the full amount to procure National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems using fiscal 2022 Ukraine Security A...
Ten years ago, the U.S. Army was notorious for being a “deliberate late adopter” of technology. The Army carried a well-known reputation of risk aversion — an approach which often placed the service branch several years behind the power curve. Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo, who was sworn into the role in February, is changing that narrat...
Day & Zimmermann and General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems Canada business have secured spots on a potential five-year, $372.59 million contract from the U.S. Army for high-explosive rounds supply. The contractors will compete for task orders under the firm-fixed-price contract to conduct mortar cartridge-related work ...
Six small businesses have been selected to compete for task orders to provide construction services to the U.S. Army under a $100 million contract. The Army 419th Contracting Supporting Brigade received 20 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet and will determine work locations and funds with each order, the Department of Defense sa...
In the U.S. Army’s modernization journey, the cloud is playing an increasingly important role. Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said that in the future fight, data will be the Army’s ammunition, and the cloud will serve as the next warfighting platform. Although the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability pr...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business will supply M1 Abrams tank sight units with containers to the U.S. Army under a maximum $99.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/definite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The Department of Defense said Monday General Dynamics Land Systems will conduct contract work i...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected five companies to compete for environmental remediation task orders under a firm-fixed-price contract worth up to $100 million over five years, according to a Department of Defense notice published Monday. Contractors will support customers serviced by USACE Alaska District. Solicitation documents releas...
