TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 25, 2021 â Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeingâs (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has dubbed the recent demonstration of the capability of a company-built unmanned aircraft system to perform an air-to-air fuel transfer mission as a âhistory-making eventâ and attributed the test completion to its ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $344.4 million sole-source contract to update MK-15 close-in weapon systems for the U.S. Navy and South Korea. The company’s missiles and defense business will modernize the radar-guided gun systems and provide associate hardware to customers as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, th...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $472.5 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to develop and integrate F-35 aircraft weapons for the British and Italian governments. The company’s aeronautics segment will support the functional review and development test of three weapons systems on the conventional takeoff-and-landing a...
Mathias Winter, president of Winter Strategic Solutions and a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined the board of directors at San Diego-based airborne systems provider Global Air Logistics and Training. Winter brings more than 35 years of defense sector experience as GALT aims to meet its profitability and growth objectives, the veteran-owned c...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Data Innovation Forum on Tuesday featuring David Spirk, chief data officer for the Department of Defense (DOD) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, as the keynote speaker. Tuesdayâs Forum explored the federal governmentâs modernization data strategy, innovation in the artificial intelligence and machine learning data...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential $191.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture inertial navigation systems for Increment 8 of the Trident II submarine-launched fleet ballistic missile system. The company’s rotary and mission systems business will produce the devices as part of the Trident Shipboard Systems Integr...
Randy Soper, lead data strategist at Illuminate Mission Solutions, acted as the moderator for an expert panel discussion during GovCon Wire Eventsâ Data Innovation Forum on June 15th, 2021. The following panelists discussed the federal government’s data innovation goals and priorities featuring Chris Borneman of Software AG Government Soluti...
GovCon Wire, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Data Innovation Forum on Tuesday, June 15th. If you missed the Data Innovation Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting the GovCon Wire Events Archive. The Data Innova...
The U.S. Navy has selected nine companies for a potential eight-year, $249.7 million contract to design, produce, install and test unmanned hardware and software platforms. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide the military branch a range of technical support services for unmanned waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures systems,...
The San Diego ship repair business of BAE Systems has secured a potential $104.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy for maintenance, modernization and repair services in support of the USS San Diego, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. The firm-fixed-price contract that provides for the LPD 22’s fiscal 2021 docking selected restric...
