Lite Coms has won a potential five-year, $500 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide wideband satellite communications systems and related equipment and support for the U.S. Marine Corps. Marine Corps Systems Command is the contracting activity and received six offers for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract...
Carroll Lane, a senior vice president and segment lead of engineered and precision products at Kaman (NYSE: KAMN), has been appointed interim chief financial officer at the Bloomfield, Connecticut-based aerospace and defense contractor. He replaces James Coogan, who is stepping down as CFO after two years in the role and Kaman said Friday it has...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $2.7 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and deliver 35 more CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters. The contract includes the development of 12 units of Lot 7 CH-53Ks and 15 Lot 8 aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps and eight helicopters for Israel’...
Artificial intelligence is sweeping the Department of Defense, and in search of new ways to support the warfighter on the ever-changing modern battlefield, the department is now heavily focused on perfecting this emerging technology. Ensuring that AI implementation aligns with DOD values and objectives is an effort that requires careful attenti...
In an age of rapidly intensifying global competition, the U.S. Department of the Navy (DON) is investing heavily in numerous initiatives guided by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro’s three enduring priorities: strengthening maritime dominance, empowering the DON’s people and strengthening partnerships. Since the release of these priorities in ...
NavalX, the innovation cell serving the Department of the Navy, is emerging from a five-year “culture campaign” during which top leaders took a hard look at how to foster an environment for rapid, meaningful innovation to support the nation’s sailors and Marines. Now, it’s moving into a new era: NavalX 2.0. “In 2018, Secretary Geurts...
Naval Air Systems Command has chosen a partnership between GALT Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. to move into the second and third phases of an industry competition to build a network pod capable of supporting MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle operations by the U.S. Marine Corps. Under the SkyTower 2 Airborne Network Extension program, the...
Ron Ravelo, a retired U.S. Navy captain and a senior director at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) since September 2021, has taken on a new role as vice president of programs for SAIC’s Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic and U.S. Marine Corps accounts. In a LinkedIn post, Ravelo shared that his appointment comes six...
Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
GovCon industry executives Koren Odermann and Mary Shambora have joined the leadership team of Client Solution Architects as vice presidents to help CSA advance growth initiatives and expand the company’s presence in existing and new markets, GovCon Wire has learned. Odermann will serve as VP of business development for the Army and other agen...
