HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Army is set to begin fielding its first unit with the Northrop Grumman [NOC]-built Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) this December, a lead official confirmed on Monday, as an increasing number of international partners, including Germany and ...

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) will serve as the next chair of the House’s Select Committee on Strategic Competition. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made the selection on Monday, with Moolenaar set to take over leading the panel following inaugural chair Rep. Mike Gallagher’s (R-Wis.) ...

SpaceX Contract with DoD for Ukraine. Last summer came news that Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, had signed a contract in June with DoD to continue providing the company's Starlink satellite communications service to Ukraine and its armed forces. An article last July 28 in the New York Times said ...

Raytheon Co., Fullerton, California, is awarded an $11,900,000 modification (P00027) to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N0001919C0020). This modification adds scope to procure one Joint Precision Approach and Landing System unit, one set of onboard repair parts, and one Ship GPS ...

Bell Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $19,324,299 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N0001924F0167) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001922G0002). This order provides recurring and non-recurring engineering to complete software upgrades for the government of ...

Geolabs Inc.,* Waipahu, Hawaii, is awarded a $20,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, architect-engineer (A-E) contract for A-E services at various Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and other government facilities within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Pacific ...

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s (INDOPACOM) $11 billion unfunded priorities list for fiscal year 2025 seeks an additional $430 million for the Guam defense systems and $1.4 billion for classified space programs, according to a copy of the document obtained by Defense Daily. The list, submitted to ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to pick the winner of the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) hypersonic defense system soon and reduce research and development funds thanks to co-development with Japan, recent budget documents said. According to FY 2025 budget documents, MDA is requesting $182 ...

Aptim Federal Services LLC, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was awarded a $12,800,000 modification (P00007) to contract W912DY-22-F-0271 for repair services. Work will be performed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; the United Kingdom; and Japan, with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2024. Fiscal 2024 ...

The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) fiscal year 2025 budget request is for $10.4 billion, $500 million less than the $10.9 billion requested in FY ‘24. For the first time in decades, MDA did not provide a press briefing laying out the budget request, but did publish a budget overview document. ...