Jane Edwards

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $35.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the third phase of a program that seeks to develop a removable kit prototype designed to automate aircraft’s co-piloting functions. Sikorsky will produce and install prototypes on various types of aircraft for flight demonstrations under DARPA’s Aircrew […] More

A Govini report predicts competition for information technology contracts across the Defense Department and service branches to increase in 2017 as $210 billion worth of DoD contracts approach expiration in the coming year, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Frank Konkel writes the analytics firm also estimates bids for each expiring IT contract to increase to an average of […] More

Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology services provider InfoZen will add an additional 25,000 square feet to its corporate headquarters in Montgomery County and hire up to 100 employees by the end of 2017 as part of the company’s expansion efforts. InfoZen announced the expansion three months after it received a potential $208 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security, […] More

Brevard County commissioners in Florida on Tuesday approved the changes to a potential $1.75 million incentive package for Lockheed Martin in exchange for the creation of up to 300 jobs, Florida Today reported Tuesday. Dave Berman writes three county commissioners cleared the revised incentive deal between Lockheed and the North Brevard Economic Development Zone, while […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit research proposals for a $23 million program that seeks to develop low-size, weight, and power transmitters that will work to facilitate underground and underwater radio communications. DARPA posted on FedBizOpps the broad agency announcement for the A Mechanically Based Antenna program that seeks to create transmitters designed to produce […] More