The Defense Security Cooperation Agency today announced more than $1.3 billion in potential foreign military sales to NATO, the United Kingdom, Kuwait, Australia and Taiwan.
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The Defense Security Cooperation Agency today announced more than $1.3 billion in potential foreign military sales to NATO, the United Kingdom, Kuwait, Australia and Taiwan.
The General Accounting Office has dismissed a protest by Sprint Communications and Global Crossing of a Defense Department contract award potentially worth $450 million over 10 years to MCI WorldCom.
The Pentagon's military components could make better use of a NATO maintenance agency to reduce costs, the Defense Department inspector general's office has found.
The General Accounting Office's comptroller general has upheld a $15.5 million Air Force contract to Alliant Techsystems to build proximity sensors for bombs like the Joint Direct Attack Munition, shooting down a protest by L-3 Communications.
With the onset of the new fiscal year, the acquisition initiatives and defense procurement organizations within the office of the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics have officially merged, the Pentagon said this week.
SAN DIEGO -- Before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, the senior executives and bankers of then-privately owned Integrated Defense Technologies thought Wall Street wouldn't take a second look at it until it hit $1 billion in revenues.
A multimillion-dollar national missile defense booster contract was among the reasons why Standard & Poor's upgraded its corporate credit rating on Orbital Sciences, the rating agency said today.
The Navy has awarded Raytheon an initial $17 million contract to upgrade the service's low-earth orbit space object tracking system, the company announced today. With options, the award has a potential value of $396 million through 2010, Raytheon said.
Transformation is not one of those concepts that should come solely from the top Defense Department leadership and be transmitted down through the services, or vice-versa, the Pentagon's top military official said today.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency yesterday announced a possible $550 million foreign military sale to ensure NATO's satellite communications capabilities are interoperable with the Pentagon's.
The Navy has awarded General Dynamics' Electric Boat subsidiary a $443 million contract to design and produce materials for the conversion of four ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) to cruise missile submarines (SSGNs), the Pentagon announced today.
Army Lt. Gen. Kevin Byrnes has been nominated to become the next commanding general of the service's Training and Doctrine Command at Ft. Monroe, VA, the Defense Department announced today.
L-3 Communications has acquired Technology, Management and Analysis Corp. for approximately $50 million in cash, L-3 announced yesterday.
Lockheed Martin has selected General Dynamics' Armaments and Technical Products business unit as the gun system integrator for the multibillion-dollar F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, GD announced today.
The Army's Space and Missile Defense Command has awarded a $626 million, four-year contract to a team led by Bechtel Corp. and Lockheed Martin to manage the Kwajalein Atoll missile defense test site.
The Defense Department could save "tens of billions" of dollars if it fully automated its business practices, the Defense Science Board concludes in a report released today.
The Pentagon risks either overpaying or not receiving proper credit for certain contributions it made to $6.9 billion worth of pension funds now controlled by Raytheon as a result of three major acquisitions the company made in the mid-1990s, the Defense Department's inspector general concludes in a new report.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will propose the formation of a NATO rapid-reaction force to deal with potential terrorist threats when he meets early next week with his counterparts in Warsaw, Poland, a senior defense official said today.
NATO nations have begun the process of ratifying an agreement to increase the interoperability of military unmanned aerial vehicles, the alliance announced this week.
The U.S. homeland has a greater chance than it did during the 1991 Persian Gulf War of becoming a battleground if the United States goes to war to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a new independent analysis warns.