The U.S. Senate has confirmed Melissa Dalton as Air Force undersecretary, eight months after President Joe Biden’s nomination. In her new role, Dalton will be responsible for assisting Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall in overseeing both the Air Force and Space Force, the service said. Kendall, a 2024 Wash100 awardee, highlighted Dalton’s extensive public service, […]
The U.S. Air Force will deploy Curtiss-Wright’s PacStar integrated solution, designed for tactical networking and connectivity in rugged and remote environments worldwide, in its Theater Deployable Communications program. Along with the PacStar solution, Curtiss-Wright will also provide the Air Force with its Commercial Solutions for Classified integration under a $16 million task order that the […]
Northrop Grumman’s upper-stage solid rocket motor has undergone a static fire test at the U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex to validate the product’s capabilities and ensure it can support flight missions. The testing event confirmed that the C50 High Performance rocket motor system, designed in a digital environment using model-based systems engineering, can […]
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2025 Navy budget request that the service branch will spend more on directed energy weapons, such as lasers, to reduce the cost of counter-drone and anti-missile solutions. Del Toro, 2024 Wash100 winner and a past Potomac Officers […]
BlueHalo will leverage learnings from the deployments of its Locust Laser Weapon System in a $95.4 million contract for advanced directed energy prototype development that it won under the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Laser Technology Research Development and Optimization program. According to the company, its tasks will focus on advancing the performance […]
Lockheed Martin announced that it has booked a $756 million contract to provide additional battery equipment to the U.S. Army’s ground-based Long Range Hypersonic Weapon system. Steve Layne, vice president of Lockheed’s Hypersonic Strike Weapons Systems, expressed the company’s pride in continuing the work on developing U.S. hypersonic strike capability, noting that the contract will […]
Two Canadian companies have received a total of $14.9 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to ensure resilient cobalt and graphite supply for the North American nations. Awarded through the Defense Production Act Investment program, Fortune Minerals Ltd. received $6.5 million, which will help complete a feasibility study of the company’s NICO Project, a […]
The Department of Defense has awarded $20 million to South32 through the Defense Production Act Investment Program, supporting the latter’s Hermosa Project in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, to produce battery-grade manganese sustainably. The initiative aligns with the 2024 National Defense Industrial Strategy to enhance domestic production and strengthen the industry’s supply chain resilience, Defense .gov […]
The Department of Defense has awarded EchoStar an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling value of $2.3 billion to provide 5G wireless services and devices to the DOD and other federal agencies. The contract, awarded through the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command’s Spiral 4 purchasing program, will be fulfilled by EchoStar subsidiaries Hughes Network Systems and […]
The U.S. Army has rolled out the first phase of the Global Commercial Solutions for Classified program. The Global Secure Network program will deploy a secure internet protocol router-consolidated security suite, providing service members access to classified networks regardless of location. The service branch aims to have the program operational by fiscal year 2025. The […]
