Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have secured contracts from the U.S. Air Force to mature proposed “air-breathing” weapon systems for a hypersonic conventional cruise missile development project, according to separate award notices posted on SAM.gov. USAF awarded $47.2 million to Boeing, $33.5 ...
General Atomics has acquired Synopta, a Switzerland-based developer of opto-electronic instrumentation for terrestrial and space applications, for an undisclosed sum. Scott Forney, president of General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems group, said in a statement published Monday the acquired company will operate as General Atomics Synopta, establis...
A subsidiary of By Light Professional IT Services has won a potential $192.61 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop simulation and management software for an integrated military training environment. Cole Engineering Services Inc. will help the service branch create the Synthetic Training Environment-Information System Training Simulation S...
Quantum Computing Inc. will use its cloud software application to help the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory address graph partitioning and data decomposition issues to enable petascale and exascale simulations that can be applied to national security efforts. The company and Los Alamos signed a three-year cooperative...
Greg Pelton, most recently the chief product officer of artificial intelligence company Pryon, will join Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) to succeed the retiring Hermon Pon as chief technical officer. Pelton will oversee Iridium’s technology development and engineering functions and technical aspects of its product and service offerings, ...
NASA has started its search for additional U.S. companies that are willing to transport private astronauts to the International Space Station on two separate short-duration missions slated to occur in the 2022-2023 timeframe. These two new flight opportunities for the private sector came one month after NASA and Axiom Space signed an agreement to co...
Tony Mitchell, formerly vice president of business development and strategy at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics group, has been appointed VP of advanced technology and strategy at military electronics supplier CAES. He will be responsible for coordinating CAES’ independent research and development projects and its partnerships with governme...
Mark Vandroff, senior vice president of business development at Fincantieri’s U.S. subsidiary, has been named CEO of the Fincantieri Marinette Marine business in a move that takes effect July 7. He will succeed Jan Allman, who has led the FMM organization over the past seven years and will transition to a new role as SVP...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has initiated measures on how the Department of Defense should work toward addressing China-related security challenges. The directive builds on recommendations from the Pentagon’s China Task Force, which launched in February and delivered an initial assessment in April, the department said Wednesday. DOD collabo...
Army Contracting Command has awarded Merck (NYSE: MRK) a one-year, $1.2 billion contract to deliver nearly 1.7 million courses of molnupiravir, an investigational oral antiviral agent intended to support the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the full contract amount was obligated on the firm-fixed-price contrac...
