The U.K. defense ministry has announced a potential $2.79 billion investment to equip its fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets with a new radar designed to provide pilots with situational awareness capability by enabling them to detect and track multiple ground and aerial targets. BAE Systems will integrate the European Common Radar System Mk 2...
The Department of Defense has begun its search for a new executive who will succeed Michael Brown as director of the Defense Innovation Unit, which helps DOD speed up the adoption of commercial technologies to strengthen national security. Brown, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, will step down from his role as DIU director once his...
Does Lockheed Martin have government contracts? The primary activities of Lockheed Martin, a multinational security and aerospace company, are the design, research, manufacture, business development, integration, and maintenance of high-tech equipment. Although the company is a private company, it mainly offers its products and services to th...
Christen Smith, former vice president of the federal health and civilian market at LMI, has been appointed senior VP for the U.S. domestic business at Rockville, Maryland-based consulting and research firm Abt Associates. Abt said Thursday that Smith will oversee Abt’s newly formed business organization that employs more than 500 professionals...
Guidehouse has added former hospital and state health leaders Michael Duke, Michelle Moratti, Joe Bialowitz and Mark Thomas to its health segment to help organizations modernize the delivery of health care services to communities, transform operations and finances and address market challenges. Duke, former chief information officer for a community ...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) is part of an Axiom Space-led industry team that will produce an astronaut spacesuit and spacewalk systems for NASA under a potential $3.5 billion milestone-based contract awarded in June. Houston-based KBR said Wednesday it will support Axiom Space in manufacturing design, test and verification efforts through the agency&#...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense subsidiary has secured a $130 million delivery order from the U.S. Army to install a medium caliber weapon system into additional Stryker armored fighting vehicles. Oshkosh Defense will equip 95 Stryker Double-V Hull Infantry Carrier Vehicles with the 30mm MCWS for use by the branch’s Stryker Brigade Combat Team...
The Department of Defense received a five percent, $39 billion increase in its funding for 2022. However, President Biden signed the deal in late March of this year, and first quarter financial results within the government contracting ecosystem are now revealing the full impact of this delay. In the third and final installment of his video...
Matt Hicks was promoted to the roles of president and CEO at Red Hat, where he previously oversaw product strategy and engineering activities as executive vice president of products and technologies. The IBM (NYSE: IBM) subsidiary said Tuesday Hicks took over from Paul Cormier, a more than two-decade Red Hat veteran who was tapped to...
SpiderOak has announced the appointment of military veterans and industry experts to the newly created space advisory board to provide guidance as the company works to deploy zero trust-based platforms and services to protect national security and commercial space systems and data from cybersecurity threats. The members of the board are Ellen Pawlik...
