Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a $99.8 million contract to extend access to the Maven Smart System to all military branches, including the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Space Force and Marine Corps. The company said Friday the five-year firm-fixed price contract from the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research ...
The Australia-hosted Pitch Black joint warfighting exercise achieved its highest level of participation ever in 2024. Pitch Black was launched in 1981 as an Australian military exercise and was expanded to include the United States in 1983. The event has since grown dramatically, and this year, over 4,000 personnel from 20 nations came together to...
RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received two contract modifications worth $517.1 million combined from the U.S. Navy to deliver spares for the production of the F135 propulsion system and provide continued technical engineering support for the F-35 Lightning II Propulsion System Block Four Flight Test Program. The Department o...
V2X (NYSE: VVX) has secured a contract to ensure the operational readiness of F-5 Adversary aircraft of the U.S. Navy. The company said Wednesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for F-5 maintenance is valued at $747 million and has a potential seven-year period of performance, including three 12-month options. Work will be perfo...
Bob Ritchie is a fast learner. The technologist started at SAIC as an intern fresh out of a Virginia Tech computer engineering degree and only three years later was the chief software architect assisting the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, wherein he helped digitally transform preexisting Department of Defense tactical decision and command and control,...
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are in the midst of one of the most challenging recruitment environments in the last two decades. But according to Hon. Franklin Parker, assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs, the tides may be turning in response to multiple efforts underway within the two services. During his...
SRI International was awarded a Defense Logistics Agency Land contract with a maximum value of $125.6 million for the U.S. military’s generalized emulation of microcircuits production program. The Department of Defense said the military service users covered under the long term, indefinite-delivery, hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fi...
Distributed Computing System Solutions Provider, which operates as HunaTek Government Solutions, secured a potential five-year $99.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for management support services. The Department of Defense said the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers end-to-end and portfolio management support services for t...
A new McAleese & Associates report indicates that the Senate Armed Services Committee’s $875 billion annual defense policy bill reflects a 3 percent increase, or $25 billion, from the White House’s proposed $850 billion budget for the Department of Defense. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winne...
Venice Goodwine, the Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer, is slated to give a keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Air Defense Summit on July 23. Learn more about the DAF CIO, her career history and her accomplishments below. Who Is Venice Goodwine? Goodwine is the Air Force CIO and a member...
