Leonardo DRS and Teledyne FLIR have won separate contracts worth $1.08 billion combined to manufacture thermal imaging systems designed for soldiers’ target acquisition and engagement operations. Army Contracting Command received four bids for the military branch’s Family of Weapon Sight-Individual program and expects the two vendors to ...
Technology industry veterans Michael Miller, Jim Keenan, Anna Levine and Cindy Brent have joined Red Hat’s public sector team as the software provider focuses on helping government customers navigate their transition to hybrid and multicloud environments. Miller, formerly head of the federal team at Veeam Government Solutions, has been named vice ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential $593 million contract to develop a passive sensor technology for the U.S. Navy’s shipboard surveillance, detection and cueing operations. The company will initially provide engineering, manufacturing and development services to the branch’s Shipboard Panoramic Electro-Optic/Infrar...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 27, 2022 — LMI will provide the Department of Defense with data analytics, management and other services under a contract with the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness, ExecutiveBiz reported. The award also covers industrial base assessments as well as maintenance policy and materiel r...
Craig Martell, former head of machine learning at Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT), has been named chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense. He will oversee efforts to advance the adoption of data, AI, analytics and digital platforms to provide warfighters decision advantage on the battlefield, DOD said Monday. “With Craig...
Definitive Logic has purchased Digital Mobilizations for an undisclosed sum as part of its efforts to scale up into a mid-sized consultancy focused on delivering digital transformation capabilities in support of missions of defense, federal civilian, homeland security and commercial customers. Founded in 2016, Digital Mobilizations supports digital ...
A Leonardo DRS business arm has won a potential five-year, $72.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the first low-rate initial production of a shipboard energy magazine and related support services. DRS Naval Power Systems will design, fabricate, test and manufacture the power conversion technology as well as conduct risk reduction efforts for ...
The Department of Defense has created two deputy assistant secretaries as part of the reorganization of its industrial policy office to improve oversight of the defense industrial base amid supply chain challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Defense One reported Thursday. Jessica Maxwell, a spokesperson for DOD, said one of the new deputies will f...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business has secured a potential five-year, $1.68 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modernization, activation and sustainment support for Total Ship Computing Environment infrastructure and mission systems of Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers. Raytheon Missiles & Defense will also provide no...
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded $450 million in contract modifications to seven companies to provide military freefall and static line support services. The modifications increase the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract’s ceiling value to $650 million and extend the performance period from five years to eight years, the De...
