Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $235.9 million contract modification to manufacture updated surface electronic warfare systems for the U.S. Navy. Naval Sea Systems Command exercised the option under a previously awarded contract for the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 Hemisphere Systems initiative, the Dep...
The Department of Defense is working to adopt commercial technologies at a faster rate than ever before as the United States’ peer and near-peer competitors increase their own technological capabilities. This approach, known as a “fast follower” strategy, was outlined in the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which called for the DOD t...
The U.S. government’s technology pipeline can be bound up in years of regulations, requirements and confirmation. In the military specifically, the process of developing, prototyping, testing and delivering a tool to the warfighter can take years. It has left defense components scrambling for new sources of innovation, striving to speed the proces...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a potential one-year, $650.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the production and delivery of 15 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band ship sets. The Department of Defense said Thursday 11 of the lot 3 low-rate initial production NGJ-MB ship sets will go to the Navy and the rest...
The DSC-EMI Maintenance Solutions joint venture has secured a potential eight-year, $246.8 million contract to support operations at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command acted as the contracting activity and received 10 offers for the fixed-price-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 10 companies positions on a potential five-year, $249.8 million contract to provide equipment and support services for the military branch’s test and training range instrumentation systems. The vendors will provide remote ground stations, data processing and display systems, data collection systems, testing and troublesho...
The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, better known as JADC2, has been an enigmatic and historically disparate effort across the defense landscape since its conception. But in 2022, the initiative took a little more shape as the DOD released its JADC2 strategy and implementation plan. Now, as JADC2 begins...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has won a potential $1.2 billion contract from the U.S. Army for Patriot Missile System fire units. Army Contracting Command received two offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and obligated the whole contract amount using foreign military sales funds for fiscal year 2023, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. W...
Adam Clater, chief architect of Red Hat‘s North America public sector organization, said government agencies need a “consistent interface layer” that would allow them to manage applications and work with multiple cloud service providers as procurement changes and congressional bills push them to deploy multicloud environments. “Users can...
Aaron Weis, a four-time Wash100 Award recipient who most recently served as chief information officer at the Department of the Navy, has been named managing director of technology at Google’s public sector arm. He will oversee the unit’s tech strategy for the Google Cloud Platform and manage a team of public sector technologists that will...
