Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a five-year, $225.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop the next hardware and software increment for the U.S. Navy’s Sidewinder air-to-air missile system. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Raytheon’s missiles and defense business will perform updates as part of the AIM-9X Blo...
Six companies have received seven contracts from NASA to build inflatable aerodynamic decelerator systems for spacecraft entry, descent and landing operations and aerocapture missions. The vendors will compete for task orders to design, produce and test materials, subassemblies, components, flight articles, engineering development units and concept ...
Seventeen companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $650 million contract to provide subject matter expertise to help the Department of Veterans Affairs design, build and test novel platforms, services and care models that could be scaled into clinical production in support of the Veterans Health Administration. The VA named its industry pa...
Paul Bize, a three-decade government market veteran, has joined ASRC Federal’s civilian and health group as vice president of business development. He will be responsible for driving the capture strategy for the unit’s portfolio in his new position, ASRC Federal said in a LinkedIn post. Bize previously oversaw global proposal devel...
Jeramie FitzGerald, most recently senior director for strategic initiatives at employee-owned engineering and tech services contractor Modern Technology Solutions Inc., assumed the role of vice president of business development at MTSI, he announced in a LinkedIn post. In this role, he will oversee the national security division’s planning, de...
James F.X. Payne has spent his career making efforts to enhance homeland security. With stints at companies such as Bechtel and Dun & Bradstreet, the Washington, D.C.-based executive has worked consistently with U.S. Intelligence Community clients to develop strategies to prevent incursions on intellectual property and infrastructure. He additio...
Former State Department official Thomas Smitham has been named chief of the U.S. business development unit at aerospace and defense conglomerate Leonardo. Smitham, who most recently served as acting ambassador to Italy, will be responsible for helping grow the company’s market presence in the U.S through commercial campaigns and instituti...
NASA has started soliciting proposals for a program to build and demonstrate astronaut moon landers for future Artemis lunar missions. The space agency said Saturday it expects the Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar Development program to create the way for companies to offer recurring lunar landing services beyond the Artemis III mission. “Wor...
The U.S. Army has asked industry to submit white papers to meet its requirement for a prototype high-energy laser weapon system for defending soldiers, facilities and other assets from threats posed by small unmanned aircraft systems. The service plans to award one or more other transaction agreements for prototyping work in support of the Army...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will develop and maintain a software suite for the U.S. Marine Corps’ command and control personal computer and tactical service-oriented architecture systems under a potential five-year, $75.6 million contract. The company will perform technical support work for C2PC and TSOA platforms, which the military branch u...
