The U.S. Air Force plans to award Honeywell [HON] a contract for bi-annual sofware updates for the company's Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) for up to 431 Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-130J Super Hercules airlifters-363 in the Air Force, 54 in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and 14 in the U.S. ...

Army aviation officials have detailed the service’s push for open architecture initiatives, including the new Common Modular Open Architecture (CMOA) effort, to allow for rapid technology insertion and long-term cost savings on both future platforms and the enduring fleet. “Our overarching ...

Following recently disclosed cyber breaches of a number of federal government and private sector networks, the Defense Department is accelerating its adoption of a zero trust (ZT) framework across the department’s information network, the DODIN, defense officials told a Senate panel on Wednesday. ...

The White House on Wednesday said a new interagency working group stood up in response to compromise earlier this month of a widely used Microsoft [MSFT] software product includes private sector participation and worked with the software giant to get a fix out to users, particularly small ...

The ongoing breach of a number of federal and private sector networks likely being committed by Russian hackers has revealed limits to awareness of cyber intrusions within the government and the need to continue to improve the private sector’s willingness to share information with the government, ...

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] surprise announcement Sunday that it has agreed to acquire propulsion systems developer and manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] in a $4.4 billion deal will lead to better integrated end products and improved manufacturing, all of which will strengthen Lockheed Martin� ...

Biometric data collected as part of a facial recognition pilot program for Customs and Border Protection ended up on a hidden part of the internet that is used for selling and buying illicit data and contraband because the agency failed to use an encrypted device to safeguard the data, the ...

The Army has launched a new program to find small businesses with concepts to increase the rate of fire for its self-propelled howitzers, including the future Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA). The program aims to have companies on contract 30 days after the submission period closes on ...

Top U.S. government cyber agencies on Thursday highlighted the willingness of malicious cyber actors to attack internet-connected operational technology (OT) that is critical to the performance of defense and national security systems and recommended that organizations take steps to harden their ...

Taiclet’s Focus. New Lockheed Martin President and CEO Jim Taiclet will be pursuing four primary missions, which include leading the defense industry with the best technology, developing an innovation culture throughout the company, further improving operational excellence, and keeping a focus on ...