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Soraya Correa, the Department of Homeland Security’s chief procurement officer, said some agile methodology from the canceled $1.5 billion Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland will be applied to a new information technology procurement, FCW reported Friday. DHS plans to implement federal category management and agile and best-practice contracting activities to the replacement of the Security […] More

Northrop Grumman has begun full-rate production of the center fuselage of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Northrop said Friday the phase marks the start of a production interval in which a fuselage will be manufactured every day and a half. Frank Carus, vice president and F-35 program manager at Northrop, said the […] More

Stuart Daughtridge, vice president of advanced technology and business development at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, said at a panel event that there is a need to further modify the satellite industry’s cybersecurity strategies, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “There are still other measures that you have to follow to guarantee as much as you can your safety,” Daughtridge […] More

A Hexagon subsidiary can vie for program support task orders from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency through two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth up to $1.17 billion. NGA selected Hexagon US Federal as one of multiple awardees for the agency’s JANUS Geography and JANUS Elevation contracts, the company said Thursday. Michael Maples, chairman of Hexagon US Federal’s board of directors and […] More

Col. Chuck Worshim, program manager for cruise missile defense systems at the U.S. Army’s program executive office missiles and space, has said General Dynamics’ land systems business will serve as the platform integrator for the service’s Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense platform, Defense News reported Thursday. The IM-SHORAD system seeks to address a capability gap in the […] More

Lockheed Martin has won a potential $40.4 million contract to develop an intermediate-range hypersonic booster technology for the U.S. Navy, according to a FedBizOpps award notice posted Thursday. In a separate announcement, the Defense Department said the service branch obligated $11.9 million at the time of award and work will cover booster design, fabrication and validation test services. […] More

Northrop Grumman and SeeByte have partnered to incorporate data from a minehunting sensor into a technology platform that works to automatically recognize targets. The partnership seeks to integrate the SeeTrack autonomous target recognition system with the AQS-24B minehunter device that uses a side-scan sonar and a laser line scanner to navigate the ocean floor, Northrop said Thursday. Alan Lytle, […] More

CA Technologies has selected DLT Solutions as a tier one partner and distributor of the software company’s products and services in the public sector. DLT said Thursday it will provide government clients access to big data, analytics, data science, cybersecurity, cloud, application life cycle, information technology consolidation and management, mobility and virtualization offerings through the partnership. Brian Strosser, president of DLT, […] More

Boeing has received an $80.7 million order to build and deliver four MH-47G Chinook  rotary-wing helicopters to the U.S. Special Operations Command. SOCOM issued the delivery order to address an “urgent” requirement to sustain special operations forces’ heavy-assault, rotary-wing platform and address impacts of an increased SOF operational demand, the Defense Department said Thursday. The command will obligate $33.7 million […] More

U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has visited a shipyard in Marinette, Wis., where  a Lockheed Martin-led industry team is building a Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship. Lockheed said Thursday it leads a team consisting of Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Gibbs & Cox and at least 800 suppliers from across 42 states to support the service branch’s LCS program. Spencer, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, […] More

Leonardo DRS has been tapped to supply a mission equipment package for the U.S. Army’s Initial Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense platform. The company said Thursday its mission equipment system will be installed on the Stryker A1 vehicle to provide brigade combat units with a capability to detect, track and counter threats associated with fixed- wing, […] More