The State Department has approved a possible $45 million deal with Japan for conversion kits to upgrade its MK 15 Phalanx Close-in Weapon Systems (CIWS) from Block IB Baseline 1 to Block IB Baseline 2.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress on March 5 of the foreign ...

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] new $150 million contract to develop and build two High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) weapon systems for the Navy marks several first including the first laser weapon fully integrated for the lifetime of a U.S. Navy ship.The Navy ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is requesting $9.9 billion in the FY ’19 budget request, which is an increase of about $2 billion over the FY ’18 request.An MDA official confirmed this request continues missile defense acceleration that began in the 2017 Above Threshold Reprogramming (ATR) and ...

Cyber threat actors are preparing new malware threats utilizing tested web application attack vectors aimed at disrupting the U.S. private sector, including aerospace and defense industries, according to reports released Tuesday. New research from cyber companies Akamai [AKAM] and FireEye [FEYE] ...

SOCOM R&D. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) chairwoman of the House Armed Services Committee’s emerging threats and capabilities panel, says she is “somewhat disappointed” that U.S. Special Operations Command’s fiscal year 2019 budget request would cut SOCOM’s research and development ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is requesting $9.9 billion in the FY ’19 budget request, which is an increase of about $2 billion over the FY ’18 request.An MDA official confirmed this request continues missile defense acceleration that began in the 2017 Above Threshold Reprogramming (ATR) and ...

The U.S. Army awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $2.3 billion contract on Jan. 30 for engineering services to support the Patriot missile defense systems to support software and refresh obsolescence in both U.S. and partner international systems.This hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and ...

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $524 million modification Feb. 6 to a domestic and foreign military sales (FMS) contract for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile segment enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) missiles.The modification covers PAC-3 missiles, cost reduction initiative (CRI) missiles, ...

A Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Navy test intercept of a Raytheon [RTN] Standard Missile(SM)-3 Block IIA from Hawaii reportedly missed its target on Jan. 31, according to a report from CNN.The MDA was unwilling to speak to the test result when reached for comment, but did confirm the test ...

After exiting the federal information technology (IT) market two years ago, telecommunications provider Sprint [T] says it is reentering the space aggressively with plans to offer a range of products and services designed to meet customer demands for new and emerging technology solutions.“Our ...