Ten companies won spots on a potential 10-year, $485 million contract to provide supporting equipment for the KC-46 aircraft fleets of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military customers. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ground-based support equipment will be delivered to U.S. and foreign military operating bases until June ...
The federal government allocates substantial financial services amounting to millions and even billions of dollars to procure a diverse range of services encompassing defense, weaponry, healthcare, cybersecurity, space missions, and more. Federal agencies enter into contracts with private companies that offer these specialized services to accomplish...
Sintavia, a maker and supplier of thermodynamic components for defense and aerospace applications, has secured a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). Florida-based Sintavia said Wednesday it will use the equity investment to further advance the development and testing of its thermodynamic designs and components used in multicircuit...
The Space Development Agency has issued a solicitation for other transaction agreement proposals to build a space vehicle variant for the second tranche of its planned transport layer for a proliferated constellation of satellites in low-Earth orbit. SDA intends to work with small businesses and wants the involvement of at least one nonprofit resear...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured a $625 million contract to produce and deliver Force Element Terminals, one of the two types belonging to the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals program of the U.S. Air Force. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity award covers equipment procurement, depot activation, research and contractor support fo...
The U.S. Air Force is soliciting industry feedback on a draft acquisition strategy for the second iteration of a potential five-year contract for strategic transformation support services that could be worth $3 billion to $5 billion. The service branch intends to hold a full-and-open competition for the Department of the Air Force Strategic Transfor...
The U.S. Department of Defense’s high-level technology incubation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was formed in early 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth satellite: Sputnik 1. Now, DARPA officials are seeing the viability of the Soviet Union’s space program nearly seven decades ago re...
Central Ohio is eyed to accommodate an estimated $7.8 billion project by Amazon‘s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business to broaden its data center operations in the state. The new campuses will expand Amazon Web Services‘ cloud computing capability by hosting additional servers, data storage drives, networking equipment and other relat...
Michael Parker, vice president of business development at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government leaders looking to address the talent gap and meet missions should invest in technologies. “With the right investment in technology and talent, leaders can manage through the current challenges and achieve a posture where positive change is a constant...
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...
