A Boeing-led (NYSE: BA) team has received a six-year, $6.56 billion contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue the production and sustainment of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense ballistic missile defense system. The modification covers the delivery of a new missile field with 20 additional silos; two additional sil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 31, 2018 ” Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) HorizonX ventures unit has placed an investment with California-based startup Cuberg for further development of the latter’s battery cell technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cuberg designed the battery with a lithium metal anode, a high-voltage cathode and proprietar...
Over 200 industry professionals were attendance on Wednesday as the Potomac Officers Club convened at the Defense Research and Development Summit to discuss the programs that those in the intelligence community know that they cannot talk about without a clearance. Given the rapid pace that technology advances in the private sector, the Department of...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential 20-year, $572.3 million contract to modernize and support the Canadian armed forces’ radar-guided weapon systems designed to engage aircraft, missiles and small ship threats. The Canadian government said Friday work will include updates to 21 Close-In Weapon Systems that currently support the ...
Scientific Research Corp. has won a potential five-year, $86.7 million contract to engineer, integrate and install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems on U.S. Navy ships. Work runs through February 2023 and covers incidental supplies procurement, fabrication, test, assembly, delivery, integration, engineering an...
Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said he expects the company to gain a controlling share of a potential $8 billion market for surface-to-surface missiles over a decade, Defense News reported Tuesday. Kennedy said Thursday at the company™s earnings call that the proposed Naval Strike Missile is ready to transition to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqb4xzhd40w DARPA has successfully completed its Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program and has officially transferred the technology demonstration vessel, christened Sea Hunter, to the Office of Naval Research (ONR). ONR will continue developing the revolutionary prototype vehic...
Greg Jones, former vice president of corporate business development and international programs at Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), has been named senior VP of strategy and business development at Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) in a move that takes effect Feb. 5. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday Jones will oversee strategic planni...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 29, 2018 ” American Systems will support the development and implementation of a cloud-based emergency mass notification system for the U.S. Air Force under a $68.6 million task order via the Network-Centric Solutions-2 network operations and infrastructure solutions contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 17...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 29, 2018 ” A subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) will provide continued engineering support for the U.S. Navy‘s and the U.K. government’s launch test capability under a $17.5 million contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Department said Thursday Jacobs Techn...
