Boeing today reported both its defense and commercial businesses saw cost growth this quarter related to the KC-46 tanker program.
Boeing today reported both its defense and commercial businesses saw cost growth this quarter related to the KC-46 tanker program.
Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense contractor, today reported sales in its most recent quarter hit $12.2 billion, up 5.4 percent from the same three-month period a year earlier.
Boeing's HorizonX innovation cell is using three different approaches to pursue beyond-the-horizon technologies and strategies, the group's chief told Inside Defense.
The Pentagon, in coordination with defense industry associations, expects to soon release a "very targeted" questionnaire to contractors as it assesses the industrial base for vulnerabilities and the potential to surge, according to the senior Defense Department official leading the effort.
Northrop Grumman's plan to purchase Orbital ATK, announced earlier this month, marks the latest effort by some of the largest defense contractors to carve out new territory with acquisitions.
The Pentagon has rolled back a controversial requirement that a contractor engage in a "technical interchange" with a Defense Department employee for its independent research and development costs to be considered allowable.
KeyW was never going to be another forgettable Washington-area contractor.
On Sept. 11, 2017, the Council of Defense and Space Industry Associations delivered its feedback on the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement -- or DFARS -- to the Pentagon's regulatory reform task force, specifically on 100 acquisition rules they want eliminated or changed as part of the Trump administration's federal deregulation effort.
Defense industry groups are taking aim at 100 acquisition rules they want eliminated or changed as part of the Trump administration's federal deregulation effort.
KeyW was never going to be another forgettable Washington-area contractor.
In a new court document, the U.S. government is arguing it must move forward with task orders with CHI Aviation and Columbia Helicopters to execute President Trump's strategy for Afghanistan.
The comptroller general is urging Senate authorizers to rethink two provisions related to Government Accountability Act protests included in the Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the fiscal year 2018 legislation.
The Defense Department is looking to forge advance pricing agreements with non-traditional defense contractors to make it easier for the firms to do more business with the Pentagon, according to the department's top pricing official.
The Defense Department is looking to forge advance pricing agreements with non-traditional defense contractors to make it easier for the firms to do more business with the Pentagon, according to the department's top pricing official.
Govini, a big data and analytics company that helps users make sense of public-sector data, has brought on a new chief executive and named several well-known defense and industry officials to its board as it seeks new customers.
President Trump today issued an order to consider a Section 301 investigation into China's intellectual property practices, a move welcomed by many in industry and on Capitol Hill -- although some Democrats blasted the administration for not going far enough to counter Chinese forced technology transfers.
In 2016, the Pentagon reviewed 12 of the roughly 380 defense-related mergers and acquisitions, according to a new report to Congress from the Defense Department's manufacturing and industrial base policy office.
As federal agencies prepare reports on their compliance with Buy American laws, contractors should be checking their own processes and documentation, according to one government contracting adviser.
The Professional Services Council opposes several provisions in the Senate Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2018 defense policy bill, including one requiring large contractors to cover the cost of their failed bid protests.
Many defense contractors, including several major services contractors, said they saw sales increases in the most recent quarter.
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