BAE Systems received a contract modification from the U.S. Army valued at $96.6M to construct a natural gas-fired steam facility at Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tenn., the company reported Monday. The new project is part of a long... Read more
Paul Colonna, former executive vice president and chief investment officer of the fundamental equities group at State Street Global Advisors, will join Lockheed Martin on Jan. 7 as president and CIO of its investment management arm. Lockheed sai... Read more
A new report by Accenture shows that many federal agencies still struggle in their efforts to modernize their information technology systems despite the progress they have made as they have yet to adopt new approaches such as cloud computing, di... Read more
General Dynamics’ information technology business has secured a spot on a potential 10-year, $50B contract vehicle to provide engineering and program support services to the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday it will compete for task orders to s... Read more
Lockheed Martin and Universal Synaptics have partnered to leverage an automated testing platform in efforts to help the Department of Defense address intermittence in electronics used on military aircraft, ground vehicles and ships. Both compani... Read more
Zscaler has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its internet security and web gateway platform. The company said Monday its Zscaler Internet Access-Government secured the FedRAMP authorization to operat... Read more
Hughes Network Systems has demonstrated a hardware technology built to protect military communications from intentional or environmental interference and support interoperability between satellite communications platforms. The company said Monda... Read more
Craig Reed, president of transaction advisory consulting firm Growth Strategy Leaders, has been appointed one of the three senior fellows at the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business. He and the two ot... Read more
Northrop Grumman has performed a demonstration of its mine hunting system on an unmanned surface vehicle during the Australian navy’s Autonomous Warrior 2018 exercise. The company said Monday its AQS-24B system installed on the mine huntin... Read more
Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the U.S. Navy‘s 18th Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine into the water at a company facility in Newport News, Va. HII said Monday it used a transfer car system in order to put US... Read more
A Center for Digital Government survey of more than 170 public-sector information technology professionals showed that four key factors affect cloud transition efforts at state and local agencies. CDG found that many agency IT leaders reported h... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day on Jan. 22 in Arlington, Va., to discuss a new program that aims to build and demonstrate structures designed to address the thermal challenge associated with hypersonic... Read more
Blue Origin‘s New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch Tuesday and carry nine NASA-backed research and technology payloads into space as part of the agency’s Flight Opportunities program. The NS-10 mission will mark the space vehicl... Read more
Rite -Solutions will provide engineering, program and technical support services for the U.S. Navy‘s submarine combat control systems under a potential five-year, $20.3M contract from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport. The... Read more
AIA Launches New Cybersecurity Standard for Aerospace, Defense Industries; Eric Fanning Quoted
The Aerospace Industries Association has released a standard aimed at maintaining cybersecurity resilience in the aerospace and defense industries. The risk-based standard complements the Department of Defense‘s existing cybersecurity guid... Read more