President Joe Biden has nominated Air Force Lt. Gen. Mary O’Brien for the role of chief information officer and director for command, control, communications and computers, J-6, at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She is currently the deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and cyber effects operations at Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the […]
BAE Systems announced that it has received task instructions from the U.S. Marine Corps to complete a study of incorporating an advanced unmanned aerial system designed for reconnaissance missions on an Amphibious Combat Vehicle variant. If the study proves promising, the USMC may proceed with plans to install the reconnaissance vehicle command, control, communication and […]
Florida-headquartered Redwire Corporation announced that it has been selected by the Air Force to compete for task orders alongside several other companies under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Advanced Battle Management System. The IDIQ has a $950 million ceiling, which will be shared across all awardees with no guaranteed task orders, Redwire said Tuesday. […]
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics announced that, together with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Research Lab and Aerojet Rocketdyne, it has successfully flight tested the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept. The demonstration saw the ultra-fast missile reaching speeds in excess of Mach 5 at altitudes greater than 65,000 feet, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. In […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential $95.2 million depot maintenance period availability contract to perform modernization work on the USS Mustin Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The base contract is worth $89.4 million. Under the contract, BAE’s San Diego Ship Repair will dry-dock the destroyer, perform underwater hull preservation work, recondition the engineering spaces, […]
Virginia-headquartered Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that its advanced unmanned underwater vehicle, REMUS 300, has been selected as the Navy’s next-generation small unmanned underwater vehicle program of record. The autonomous seacraft incorporates advanced modularity and open architecture into a compact, man-portable design, HII said Thursday. In a statement, the company said the initial phase of the […]
Army. Gen. Michael Kurilla has succeeded U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr. as head of the U.S. Central Command. USCENTCOM is the field combatant command assigned to Central Asia and other parts of the continent. The transfer of authority comes at a potentially critical point for the command as the Department of Defense emphasizes […]
L3Harris Technologies and Thales Defense and Security have been awarded spots on a potential 10-year, $6.1 billion U.S. Army contract to provide combat net radios. According to the Army’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, over 1,100 radios have been ordered from the two companies. The radios that will be delivered include those […]
Integrated Tactical Technologies announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense, through the Defense Innovation Unit, to develop a wearable two-way communication solution. The multi-phase contract is worth up to $19.4 million, iT2 said Wednesday. In a statement, iT2 said the deal calls for manufacturing “wireless soldier” solutions through its […]
Raytheon Missiles & Defense has secured a potential five-year, $3.15 billion contract for full-rate production of the AN/SPY-6(V) family of radars. The base award is a one-year contract worth $651 million, while the four one-year options are worth $2.5 billion in total. Raytheon will produce solid-state, fixed-face and rotating SPY-6 variants that will provide integrated […]
