The Department of the Navy has recognized the need for modernization and is working tirelessly to ensure that its forces are properly equipped for today’s constantly evolving battlespace. Informed by both Department of Defense-wide and internal strategies, the DON is taking major steps toward a future-ready fleet. For Rear Adm. Fred...

Serco Group’s Americas division will continue to provide IT and programmatic support services to U.S. Navy bases worldwide under a five-year, $69 million task order. The follow-on award extends Serco Inc.‘s work to help the service branch maintain Anti-terrorism and Force Protection and Enterprise Land Mobile Radio systems, the company s...

HII‘s (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has booked contract modifications worth $393.3 million from the U.S. Navy to implement a new ship delivery strategy for the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier. The branch now expects to receive the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) on July 31, 2025, the company said Friday. “This...

The U.S. Navy’s Flank Speed cloud platform was introduced about two years ago, in May 2021, and has reportedly helped bring about a wave of positive technological change for the service branch. A collaboration with Microsoft 365, Flank Speed has seen the transition of over 530,000 users to its common suite of tools and shared digital...

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has secured a potential $85 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide technical services in support of a unit responsible for manning and training information warfare forces. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award seeks to help Naval Information Forces bridge gaps in operational level...

The U.S. Air Force awarded RTX (NYSE: RTX) a $1.15 billion contract to supply the latest Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile configuration to domestic and international defense customers. The award covers AIM-120 D-3 and C-8 variants developed through the AMRAAM Form, Fit, Function Refresh program, RTX said Tuesday. It marks the fifth productio...

Tiffanny Gates, former CEO of Novetta and a three-time Wash100 winner, has been named an operating partner at Washington, D.C.-based investment firm Capitol Meridian Partners. She will be part of a team of seasoned government and industry executives who support CMP’s strategic direction for its portfolio companies, the company said Thursday. G...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) will produce a set of equipment and communication tools for the U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party-Modernization program under a $246.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Under the IDIQ award, L3Harris will manufacture tactical radios, ancillary components and radio sets and stations fo...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $100 million contract to engineer a suite of high-speed fiber-optic shipboard networking systems for the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. Naval Sea Systems Command issued a $16.8 million initial award for design agent and technical engineering support to the AN/USQ-82(V) family of systems, whi...

Amentum has won an eight-year, $475 million contract to provide maintenance and logistics support for the U.S. Navy’s F-16 aircraft fleet. The company will help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division maintain F-16A/B/C/D variants at the organizational, intermediate and depot levels, the Department of Defense said Thursday. NAWCAD recei...