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HII hosted Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division Wednesday. The visit, including a meeting with company leadership and a tour of the shipyard, focused on investments by HII and the Navy to improve the working experience for shipbuilders and sailors assigned to vessels under construction or undergoing maintenance at NNS. Among them: Franchetti was briefed on the design and planning underway for a new

BigBear.ai a leading provider of AI for enterprise and defense, today announced a master service agreement with Heathrow to develop and deliver advanced technologies at Europe’s largest airport. The MSA allows for a wide range of potential projects. The partnership between BigBear.ai and Heathrow aims to improve security and operational effectiveness, while enhancing the overall experience for travelers through the UK’s hub airport. BigBear.ai provides cutting-

Hanwha Ocean signed a Master Ship Repair Agreement  with the U.S. Navy, marking an important milestone in consolidating the company's reputation in the global defense market through enhanced cooperation with the U.S. naval shipbuilding sector. The MSRA, which represents Hanwha Ocean’s shipbuilding and maintenance, repair, and overhaul capabilities in the global market, is granted by the U.S. Navy to companies that fulfill stringent quality standards for ship maintenan

Today, we launched a new compute intensive Plug In Card (PIC), TR MDx/6sd-RCR to meet growing customer demand. The PIC has enhanced features, including a wider operating temperature range, reduced weight, advanced networking capability, and secure on-board storage. These improvements position the product within the industry as a top choice for size, weight, cost, and power-constrained ground and airborne applications. With a significant pipeline of preorders, including the

XFS Global, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned manufacturer of state-of-the-art, fully integrated semi-permanent engineered fabric shelter and support equipment technologies, today announced the company has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract by the United States Marine Corps for the development of an Atmospheric Water Generation On-The-Move (AWG-OTM) system.  Through this groundbreaking project, XFS Global will develop a mobile solution t

BlueHalo, the company transforming the future of global defense with actively deployed and operationally proven Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System solutions, announced today the successful completion of critical milestones in the development of its agile and disruptive new Next-Generation C-UAS Missile In June, BlueHalo announced its selection as one of two vendors chosen to continue development of the Next-Generation C-UAS Missile (NGCM) by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Develo

CACI International Inc announced today that it has been awarded a five-year task order valued at up to $319 million to provide intelligence systems expertise to the U.S. Army, Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center Electronic Warfare and Sensors Directorate Army Reprogramming Analysis Team-Program Office  Through the ARAT task order, CACI will help the Army, other Services, and foreign military partners establish and maintain a state-of-the-art

TransDigm Group Incorporated today announced it has successfully completed its acquisition of Raptor Labs Holdco, LLC a portfolio company of L Squared Capital Partners, for approximately $655 million in cash, including certain tax benefits. TransDigm financed the acquisition through cash on hand. The acquisition of Raptor Scientific was previously announced on May 28, 2024. Raptor Scientific is a leading global manufacturer of complex test and measurement solutions primari

SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a multi-year contract worth USD 46.8 million by the U.S. Air Force  Air Combat Command to provide Geostationary  Ku-band satellite services in support of the ACC remotely piloted aircraft training and testing program. SES Space & Defense will use SES’s GEO high-throughput satellite (HTS) fleet to provide ground-to-air and air-to-ground transmissions coverage over the continental

Viasat Inc. a global leader in satellite communications, today announced the introduction of Viasat's Secure Wireless Hub a wearable tactical gateway solution for dismounted soldiers that is easy to carry and simple to use. The SWH solution was developed as part of a multi-phase effort with U.S. Special Operations Command  to identify and develop advanced tactical communications capabilities for mobile ground forces. The SWH is the first wearable addition to Viasat's po

CACI International Inc announced today that it has been awarded a five-year task order valued at up to $414 million to provide expertise and unmanned systems support to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Center to enable warfighter rapid response to current and emerging threats. “CACI’s extensive, specialized operational support expertise is com

Raytheon, an RTX  business, was awarded two strategic Mentor-Protégé Agreement initiatives from the Department of the Navy Office of Small Business Programs to support the development of operational Artificial Intelligence for Department of Defense platforms and programs. Through joint sponsorship from NAVAIR and the Office of Naval Research, Raytheon will mentor Anacapa Micro Products, Inc. and Nara Logics, Inc. Under two individual three-year contracts, Raytheon

On the occasion of the Farnborough International Airshow 2024, CIRA Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali  and Leonardo have renewed the framework agreement for collaboration on research and technological development activities. The president of CIRA, Antonio Blandini, and the co-director general of Leonardo, Lorenzo Mariani, have signed the agreement that further consolidates the cooperation between two Italian excellences in the aerospace sector. The framework collaboration a

The NATO Support and Procurement Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin Sikorsky a contract award to study integrated platform concepts that could fulfill NATO’s next generation rotorcraft requirements through its Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability  program. “Sikorsky is ready to design a rotorcraft prototype for NATO’s NGRC concept study to support defense and deterrence for an ever-changing global environment.  Years of investment and rigorous flight tes

Graham Corporation a global leader in the design and manufacture of mission critical fluid, power, heat transfer, and vacuum technologies for the defense, space, energy, and process industries, announced today that it has been awarded $2.1 million for the expansion of its welder training programs and related equipment. The contract was awarded by BlueForge Alliance, a nonprofit, neutral integrator that supports the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Industrial Base initiatives. Daniel