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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
Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International and a five-time Wash100 winner, has pointed to cultural fit and a go-to-market strategy that could involve technical skills or technology offerings as the company’s key considerations for identifying potential acquisition targets. “We look through a lens of all of our markets at all times and something […] 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,â€Â 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
PAE has secured a position on a potential eight-year, $970 million contract to support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency‘s Cooperative Threat Reduction program that aims to counter weapons of mass destruction. The company said Thursday it will vie for task orders to facilitate transportation, storage and destruction of WMD threats through the contract vehicle. “PAE’s CTRIC III […] More
