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The federal government recently awarded Texas-based science, technology and engineering company KBR’s Mission Technology Solutions business a $95 million digital engineering and enterprise decision support contract to rapidly advance digital engineering capabilities for the U.S. Space... Read More »
Exercise Southern Jackaroo 2026, a multi-national training exercise, launched on May 29 and continues through July 3.
It began with an opening ceremony and brings together forces from the United States military, the Australia Defence Force and the Japan Self Defense Force.
The exercise uses... Read More »
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded the Mission Technology Solutions business of Houston-based KBR, a science, technology and engineering solutions company, a $8 billion maximum Antarctic science and engineering support contract.
The task order hybrid contract will have... Read More »
In a recent bulletin, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined its partner organizations to alert users of malicious cyber activity targeting U.S.-based automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems.
In partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National... Read More »
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have developed a research and development program to catalyze breakthroughs in artificial intelligence for national security. The agencies worked in close collaboration with the Center for AI Standards... Read More »
U.S. shipbuilder Davie Defense broke ground recently on the modernization of Gulf Copper shipbuilding facilities in Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas.
The move marks the return of complex shipbuilding in Texas for the first time in decades, officials said, and is a step toward Davie Defense’s... Read More »
The 2026 Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) was held in San Antonio on May 18 to 21. The annual exercise focuses on disaster response preparedness for search and rescue organizations and helps improve interagency coordination between state and federal partners.
This year, there were more than... Read More »
CrowdStrike announced last month it was expanding its work on Project QuiltWorks, an industry framework that would protect cyber insurance companies from financial exposure due to frontier AI risk.
The company said leaders from the cyber insurance industry - Coalition, Liberty Mutual Insurance,... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded Texas-based Dell Federal Systems, a company that deploys technologies that meet strict government requirements, a five-year, approximately $9.7 billion Microsoft Department of War Enterprise Software Agreement (ESA) II Core Enterprise Technology... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded defense solutions company Raytheon, in collaboration with Northrop Grumman, a phase two Burn n' Go program contracts for the continued development of a new solid rocket motor design.
Raytheon is prime on the contract and has... Read More »
Defense technology company Lockheed Martin recently broke ground on a new munitions production center at its facility in Troy, Ala., that will support Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors and future work with Next Generation Interceptor.
The center, Building 47, will add... Read More »
Eight of America’s leading communications companies announced the establishment of a cybersecurity non-profit.
The Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, also known as C2 ISAC, is a collaboration of AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile,... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) modernized its financial management systems, but the department’s cost and schedule estimates weren’t always reliable, a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found, and its guidance and plans weren’t consistent.
GAO added DHS to the... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently awarded Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV), a defense technology company, a prototype agreement for the rapid development, delivery and testing of the Switchblade 400 loitering munition.
Switchblade 400, a medium-range, man-portable, anti-armor loitering munition, is a key... Read More »
The Army Contracting Command recently awarded Texas-based KBR, a science, technology and engineering solutions company, two up to $449 million task order modifications to continue providing intelligent, data-driven logistics support to the U.S. Army in Europe and North America.
The contract was... Read More »
Project QuiltWorks, a tech industry coalition, recently launched to assess, prioritize and continuously remediate production code vulnerabilities that frontier artificial intelligence models are uncovering.
Project QuiltWorks uses the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with remediation input from... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre and other federal and international partners to release a new cybersecurity advisory about China.
The advisory, “Defending Against China-Nexus Covert Networks of... Read More »
L3Harris Technologies, a Florida-based defense technology company, recently closed on a $1 billion Department of Defense investment in the company’s Missile Solutions (MSL) business.
The company is in the process of transforming and growing its MSL production operations and will use funding to... Read More »
A multi million U.S. Navy contract with Lockheed Martin, a global defense technology company, will allow the company to develop, integrate and test the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) into the Aegis Combat System.
Funding will allow Lockheed Martin to continue munitions acceleration... Read More »
Lockheed Martin announced it was awarded a 10-year, sole source, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to continue the C-130J Maintenance and Aircrew Training System (MATS) program by the Pentagon.
The contract, worth up to $1.9 billion, will allow the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently awarded aerospace company Boeing a $324 million contract for six CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters. This increases the number of CH-47F Block II aircraft under contract to 24.
“Consistent production awards reflect the Army’s confidence in the CH-47F Block II as a... Read More »
Marine Corps Installations Command (MCICOM) awarded a Pennsylvania nonprofit organization specializing in applied scientific research and development professional services, a $21 million contract to provide facility-related control systems cyber services in the Marine Corps Installations Pacific... Read More »
The U.S. government recently awarded global defense technology company Lockheed Martin a $4.7 billion, multibillion-dollar contract to continue critical accelerated production of PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE).
Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will be able to accelerate production... Read More »
The U.S. Department of War said antisubmarine warfare training, Exercise Sea Dragon 2026, was successfully concluded at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam recently.
The exercise saw two Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft assigned to Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadrons 4 and 45 were joined by a... Read More »
Boeing and the U.S. Department of War (DOW) said on April 1 they reached a seven-year framework agreement to triple production of PAC-3 missile seekers, a move officials say will significantly expand air and missile defense capabilities for U.S. and allied forces worldwide.
The agreement, which... Read More »
Textron Systems Corporation on Wednesday announced it has completed the evaluation period for its Cottonmouth prototype for the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) program for the U.S. Marine Corps.
The prototype vehicle evaluations included tests of land mobility, lethality and ocean swim... Read More »
Lockheed Martin, a global defense technology company, recently opened a facility in Dallas that will streamline the development, testing and prototype production of next-generation systems and solutions for U.S. government customers.
The Rapid Fielding Center is integrated with the manufacturing... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense, in partnership with defense contractors BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin, will quadruple the production of seekers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor.
Under the terms of the agreement, BAE Systems will guarantee the component is... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense and Arizona-based Honeywell Aerospace, a diversified technology and manufacturing company, recently partnered to create a framework to increase production of critical components for the ammunitions stockpile.
Honeywell Aerospace will accelerate the delivery of... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently transitioned to the U.S. Army an autonomous flight system. DARPA transitioned an experimental, fly-by-wire H-60Mx Black Hawk, equipped with the DARPA-funded Sikorsky MATRIX autonomy suite to the Army’s Project Manager for Utility... Read More »
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the first AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft upgrades under the U.S. Marine Corps’ Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects (SPINE) program.
The program is part of the H-1 program’s modernization plan to... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging U.S. organizations to harden their endpoint management system configurations after a cyberattack on Stryker Corporation.
CISA said on March 11, Stryker was the victim of a cyberattack targeting their endpoint management system which... Read More »
RTX’s Raytheon announced recently it had completed a 26,000-square-foot expansion of its Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility near Huntsville, Ala.
The $115 million investment will increase the facility’s integration and delivery capacity by more than 50 percent and will grow the... Read More »
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the critical design review stage of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane program and received an X-Plane designation.
The designation... Read More »
Paris-based Qevlar AI, a computer and network security company, recently raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI SOC platform.
The company will use the funding to turn alert investigations into security insights that will help security operations centers (SOCs) strengthen their... Read More »
