Ian Graham, general counsel of BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary, believes that an organization must incorporate discipline into its efforts to retain a diverse team of legal professionals, Bloomberg BNA reported Thursday. Graham, who also serves as a senior vice president and corporate secretary at BAE Systems Inc., told the audience during a panel discussion hosted by […] More

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics are potential bidders on the Defense Department’s $460 million digital services contract in support of U.S. Cyber Command, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Chris Strohm writes the Pentagon has increased spending on cyber over the past two fiscal years even as spending declines on other programs. Nadia Short, vice president and […] More

Kevin Ramundo, a Raytheon spokesperson, has said the company took “corrective actions” following an independent review of its development work on operational control systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS satellites, Bloomberg reported Friday. Raytheon was awarded a potential $886 million contract in 2010 to build the GPS ground segment, according to the report by […] More

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch has said the military service could seek approval from the U.S. Defense Department in 2016 to launch a competitive bidding process for GPS III satellite development contracts, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. “We want to get competition as much as we can so that we can try to drive down […] More

Google will collaborate with NASA and multiple technology companies to develop new tools to monitor commercial unmanned aerial system operations in U.S. airspace, Bloomberg reported Friday. Alan Levin writes Google, Amazon, Harris Corp. and Verizon are among the companies that have agreed to help the agency build a UAS traffic management infrastructure. More than 100 other private […] More

U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has said the military service expects to hold a competition for Long-Range Strike Bomber subsystems that will not be part of the LRS-B development and initial production contract, Bloomberg reported Monday. Anthony Capaccio writes James told Bloomberg the Air Force could name the prime contractor for the LRS-B program […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries is set to receive a $4 billion contract to design and build the U.S. Navy‘s second Ford-class aircraft carrier, Bloomberg reported Friday. Anthony Cappacio writes the Navy has obtained approval from U.S. Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall to move forward on the USS John F. Kennedy carrier construction project. Beci Brenton, […] More

Huddle will be able to provide the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies with its U.S. cloud collaboration service after receiving an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Thursday its service works to support cross-agency file sharing, project management and other collaboration activities through a single cloud platform to […] More

Brent Adamson serves as managing director of executive advisory services for the Corporate Executive Board’s sales and marketing leadership councils, where he has worked on various sales and marketing studies. He most recently worked at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business before joining CEB and previously served as professor of German and applied […] More

Contractors providing support to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security could face stop-work orders and late payments if Congress does not extend the agency’s budget, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. “Service providers and suppliers of this department do not get paid during the period of the shutdown, again, because there’s no money or because […] More

Boeing could receive $15.6 billion over the next five years to fund the production of modified 767 jets for the U.S. Air Force‘s aerial refueling operations, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Tony Capaccio writes that the Defense Department is requesting $2.95 billion for fiscal 2016, $3.22 billion for fiscal 2017 and $3.1 billion for fiscal 2018 through 2020 for its KC-46 tanker program. […] More

Boeing and BlackBerry will collaborate to offer government customers an Android smartphone designed to have a tamper-proof covering and a security architecture, Bloomberg reported Saturday. John Chen, chairman and CEO of BlackBerry, confirmed the partnership during an earnings call with investors on Saturday, according to the report by Julie Johnsson and Gerrit De Vynck. Johnsson […] More