A $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2018 would allocate approximately $600 million in funds to support the development of two new Wideband Global Satcom satellites for the Defense Department, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. The budget allocation for the WGS program will be a boon to Boeing, which has secured approximately $4 billion in […] More

Reportlinker has unveiled a new report that predicts the global market for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems will reach more than $177 billion in cumulative value by 2027 at a 2.4 percent compound annual growth rate. An increasing demand for battle-space awareness and network centric warfare modernization efforts will help drive C4ISR market growth […] More

Mojo Networks has completed a security assessment report required to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification. Mountain View, California-based Mojo said Monday it selected Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to evaluate the cloud WiFi service provider against the FedRAMP Moderate baseline and submit the results in a security assessment report. Mojo Networks CEO Rick Wilmer […] More

Vencore will support QWK Integrated Solutions‘ efforts to develop a laser technology for the U.S. Army‘s the High Energy Laser Technical Vehicle Demonstrator project. Vencore said Wednesday it will provide program management, engineering and testing services under a HEL TVD task order awarded to the company’s QWK joint venture with Kratos Defense and Security Solutions‘ Digital Fusion Solutions. The Army aims to […] More

Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems division, will participate in a panel discussion at SMi Group‘s Global MilSatCom Conference that is scheduled to take place in London from Nov. 7 to 9. SMi Group said Tuesday the forum will center on ground segment innovations for military satellite communications and cover […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has unveiled the list of officers and members who were elected to the association’s board of directors for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Maximus CEO Richard Montoni and Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of DXC Technology’s U.S. public sector, will respectively serve as chairman and vice chairman of NVTC […] More

Matthew Schmitz, formerly a vice president at Huntsville, Alabama-based engineering and program management services provider Intrepid, has been named VP of the technical services business at Dynetics. Dynetics said April 10 Schmitz will oversee the unit’s business development strategy and enterprise growth initiatives in his new position. Schmitz has almost 20 years of business development and operations management experience at multiple […] More

United Launch Alliance has agreed to become a sponsor for the Air Force Association’s StellarXplorers science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program. The joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing ULA will sponsor the dinner for the national finalists and also cover travel expenses and funding for the StellarXplorers III winners, the Air Force Association said Monday. “We are […] More

Applied Defense Solutions will collaborate with Lockheed Martin, Pacific Defense Solutions and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary RT Logic to supply space surveillance data to the U.S. Air Force under a contract awarded Oct. 19, Space News reported Monday. Phillip Swarts writes the industry team will provide commercially sourced space situational awareness data to the Joint Interagency Combined […] More

A Defense Department organization has awarded 12 contracts worth approximately $36.3 million combined in fiscal year 2016, Defense News reported Friday. Aaron Mehta writes the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental group made the contract awards within an average period of 60 days and provided $8.3 million in funds to support the contracts. Tanium secured $12.7 million in DIUx contracts to develop […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $40.8 million cost-share research-and-development contract to Composite Engineering Inc. to help the service branch develop an unmanned aerial system. The Defense Department said Friday CEI will design, build, assemble and test a technical baseline for a new long-range, high-speed UAS platform as well as identify key technology for future aircraft demonstrations and a vehicle for […] More

Infor has partnered with Amazon Web Services as the New York-based enterprise software company aims to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based software suite to government agencies. The agreement allows Infor to host its CloudSuite Public Sector offering on AWS’  GovCloud (US) as well as receive guidance from cloud technology consulting and implementation services provider Day1 Solutions, an AWS Partner Network […] More