A new Defense Department instruction makes official a concept DOD officials have been increasingly beating the drum over the past several years: cybersecurity is critical to all aspects of defense acquisitions.
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January 06, 2021 |
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January 06, 2021 |
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Committee chairmanships are on the line as the results of two run-off Senate elections in Georgia indicate the Democratic party is close to claiming a majority in Congress that will be led by President-elect Biden from the White House.
January 04, 2021 |
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The Navy has awarded contracts to three companies for Information Warfare Research Project prototype production.
January 04, 2021 |
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The Missile Defense Agency has secured a more than $200 million boost for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA interceptor in fiscal year 2021, partially satisfying its No. 1 unfunded requirement that will be roughly divided between the Aegis guided missile's development and procurement accounts.
December 30, 2020 |
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In the coming year, the Biden administration is likely to face multiple defense-related challenges and complications, particularly as it grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the economy.
December 29, 2020 |
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The Navy has released a request for proposals for design, development and fabrication of the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.
December 29, 2020 |
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With the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by incumbent Perspecta, Leidos is now ready to move forward with the $7.7 billion contract it won in February to provide services for the Navy's Next Generation Enterprise Network program.
December 22, 2020 |
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The Pentagon and Congress have yet to fully reckon with the costs the COVID-19 pandemic may have imposed on the U.S. defense industrial base, including the roughly $11 billion defense officials tell lawmakers is needed to rectify the situation.
December 21, 2020 |
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Lawmakers have charged the Pentagon's top officer with overseeing a comprehensive new assessment of U.S. air and missile defense capabilities of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Missile Defense Agency against advanced threats such as hypersonic glide bodies and long-range, ultra-fast cruise missiles and to develop a plan to address these threats.
December 21, 2020 |
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The Navy announced Friday it had awarded L3Harris Technologies a $496 million contract for engineering and manufacturing development for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band program.
December 21, 2020 |
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Congress has agreed to a $2.3 trillion omnibus package for fiscal year 2021 that includes $900 billion in pandemic relief funds.
December 21, 2020 |
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Lockheed Martin's chief executive said today the company has not yet received "direct feedback" from government customers about its proposed purchase of Aerojet Rocketdyne, but is hopeful "we'll have a mutual understanding of the benefits."
December 20, 2020 |
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Lockheed Martin said today it has agreed to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne for $56 per share in cash in a deal worth a total $4.4 billion.
December 18, 2020 |
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The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has denied Perspecta's lawsuit over the Navy's award of the multibillion-dollar Next Generation Enterprise Network services contract to Leidos.
December 18, 2020 |
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Both Democrats and Republicans support a larger Navy, but congressional leaders have mixed reactions to the Trump administration's recently released shipbuilding plan.
December 17, 2020 |
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The Missile Defense Agency is asking industry for ideas on how to improve the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system, eyeing new enhancements for potential incorporation in planned upgrades of the global system of workstations, servers, network equipment and software that collectively ties together the $202 billion Ballistic Missile Defense System.
December 17, 2020 |
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The tri-service National Maritime Strategy, released by the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Thursday, calls for the U.S. to focus on growing threats by China and Russia.
December 17, 2020 |
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Unmanned systems will take time to develop, but then move faster than many anticipate, Navy acquisition executive Hondo Geurts said Wednesday.
December 17, 2020 |
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After a successful demonstration this fall, the F-35 Joint Program Office is negotiating an installation plan to integrate the new Operational Data Integration Network at operational sites, beginning in late 2021.
December 16, 2020 |
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After spending most of 2020 defining its structure, leadership and warfighting doctrine, the head of the Space Force said this week the new service's second year will focus more on integration -- with the joint community, industry, international partners and within the broader space acquisition enterprise.
