The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $524 million modification Tuesday 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, ...
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Senate leaders announced Feb. 7 that they have reached a bipartisan agreement to lift congressionally mandated spending caps in fiscal years 2018 and 2019 and end a months-long budget impasse.The deal, outlined on the Senate floor by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate ...
DHS Authorization. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has introduced a bill that would permanently authorize the Department of Homeland Security’s Joint Requirements Council, an executive body within the department that oversees requirements generation across agencies and components and makes ...
The U.S. Army awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $2.3 billion contract on Tuesday 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 ...
A new report by the Defense Department’s top weapons tester shows the Navy appeared to drag its feet when planning for an unmanned Aegis self-defense test ship (SDTS), requiring direction by the office of the Secretary of Defense.The new 2017 annual report by the Defense Department’s Director ...
This story was updated with a Defense Department confirmation of the test failure.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 Wednesday, according to a report from CNN.The MDA was unwilling ...
The Defense Department announced several flag officer nominations and assignments on Tuesday and Wednesday, including the assignment of a new Director of Naval Intelligence.Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced the nomination of Vice Adm. Matthew Kohler as deputy chief of naval operations for ...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Jan. 18 rejected a protest by Leidos [LDOS] of a contract awarded late last September to Northrop Grumman [NOC] to build out a new multimodal biometric database and identity management system for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The GAO’s ...
Space Adviser. Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will take over the duties of the principal defense space adviser on an “interim” basis, he wrote in a Jan. 17 memo to other defense officials. The move comes in response to the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization act, which calls for ...
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) told Congress on Thursday that a new 30-year shipbuilding plan will be delivered to the legislature next month along with the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 defense budget.Adm. John Richardson affirmed this in questioning before the House Armed ...