A BAE Systems division has won a potential $12 billion contract to integrate and engineer intercontinental ballistic missiles for the U.S. Air Force. The company’s technology solutions and services unit will continue to serve as the lead systems integrator and provide professional services for the ICBM program at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, t...
A BAE Systems business in Rockville, Maryland, has won a $699 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to manage, operate and maintain computational systems for the Department of Defense’s scientific and engineering communities. The company’s technology solutions and services unit will provide program-wide support to Defens...
Bill Sheehy, Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle program manager at BAE Systems, said the company has been building AMPVs for the U.S. Army at full-rate production levels in the past four months and plans to further speed up production but would need to invest in the expansion of its assembly line and machinery, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday....
BAE Systems, CACI International and Peraton have received separate contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop approaches that would facilitate interoperability between heterogeneous tactical networks and allow military personnel to connect on demand. The three companies will lead teams to conduct research efforts for the...
Eight awardees will continue to provide professional management and technical services to support the U.S. Navy’s cyberspace operations under a $231.2 million contract option. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific exercised the first option period on a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an $802 million cei...
Jerry Wohletz, a senior executive at BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary, will assume the role of president and CEO of Draper on June 27. He succeeds William LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 awardee and who left Draper in April after the Senate confirmed him to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense,...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded positions to five companies on a seven-year, $500 million contract vehicle for mission critical operations support services. NGA named the participants in the agency’s GEOINT Enterprise Operations Service and Solutions Program with Industry in a notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov. The GEO-SPI...
Ian Reason, a two-decade aerospace and defense sector veteran, has been named a senior vice president at Barnes Group (NYSE: B) and president of the company’s aerospace business. His appointment takes effect May 2 and he will succeed Michael Beck, who intends to retire on April 30, Barnes said Monday. Reason most recently served as...
Maria Hedden, a defense and communications industry veteran with more than two decades of management experience, has joined Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) as chief operating officer. Hedden will be responsible for driving Comtech’s operational performance through production improvement, delivery scheduling and engineering initiative...
BAE Systems has secured a $176 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force build an airborne radio system to provide airmen with an alternative communications network in satellite-denied environments. BAE said Thursday it will use FlexRadio’s commercial off-the-shelf technology to produce software-defined technology with anti-jamming features for ...
