The joint venture of Boeing and Textron’s Bell subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $41.2 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide engineering and logistics sustainment support for the V-22 Osprey aircraft platform. Under the agreement, Bell Boeing will deliver support services to various clients, including the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force as well as the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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Rebellion Defense has secured a U.S. Army award to continue boosting the capabilities of the company’s penetration testing software under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase III effort. The software company said Wednesday Rebellion Nova will be enhanced further to provide the Army Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical with automated cyber red team […] More

Rebellion Defense has secured a U.S. Army award to continue boosting the capabilities of the company's penetration testing software under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase III effort. Rebellion Nova will be enhanced further to provide the Army Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical with automated cyber red team testing. More

Textron’s Bell subsidiary has chosen GE Aerospace to build data infrastructure components for a new U.S. Army tiltrotor platform called the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft. The components will form part of an open avionics system to be integrated into the V-280 Valor, which won the FLRAA competition in December last year, GE Aerospace said […] More

Textron's Bell subsidiary has chosen GE Aerospace to build data infrastructure components for a new U.S. Army tiltrotor platform called the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft. The components will form part of an open avionics system to be integrated into Bell's V-280 Valor, which won the FLRAA competition in December 2022. More

Astronics has been contracted by Textron’s Bell subsidiary as part of the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program. Under the award, Astronics will refine the V-280 Valor weapon system’s electrical power and distribution system, which it provided for the demonstrator aircraft, the East Aurora, New York-based company announced on Tuesday. “We have enjoyed a close […] More

Leidos CEO Thomas Bell said the company is working on its “North Star” vision that would guide its strategic decisions as it approaches its first decade as an independent company. “The North Star isn’t going to be that suddenly we’re going to go 90 degrees left or 90 degrees right. The North Star is going […] More

Leidos subsidiary Dynetics completed on Saturday its first test launch of a hypersonic test bed from Rocket Lab‘s launch complex at a spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The inaugural launch was conducted as part of the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane under the […] More

Ken Campbell, former strategic growth director of national security engagements at Maxar Technologies, has been appointed as president of Israel-based Edgybees’ U.S. business arm. The software company said Wednesday the executive move comes amid efforts to expand the delivery of its georegistration software platform offerings outside its home country. In May, Edgybees Inc. was launched to meet […] More

Rebellion Defense will assist the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration in conducting continuous cybersecurity testing under a follow-on contract for the company’s automated adversary emulation technology. NNSA will use Rebellion Defense’s Rebellion Nova to bolster its cyber defense by mimicing adversarial attacks, Rebellion Defense said Tuesday.  The technology is developed to accurately pinpoint […] More

Rolls-Royce veteran Thomas Bell has been selected by Leidos’ board of directors to succeed Roger Krone, a 10-time Wash100 Award winner, as CEO. Krone, who also serves as chairman of Leidos, will continue serving as chief executive until the transition goes into effect on the planned date of May 3, the Reston, Virginia-based company announced on Monday. “Tom’s exceptional track […] More

SOFWERX, an innovation platform co-founded by the U.S. Special Operations Command, granted Rebellion Defense a follow-on contract to gain extended access to an automated cybersecurity platform. The award follows a demonstration of Nova Software, a product designed to mimic cyber kill chains and other advanced persistent threats, Rebellion said Tuesday. Nova employs Mitre’s ATT&CK knowledge […] More