HII [HII] on Monday said it has created the new corporate position of chief technology officer (CTO) that will be filled by Todd Barkey, who has been CTO of the company’s Mission Technologies segment since 2021. HII said it created the new role to oversee its technology strategy, strengthen its ...

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Palantir Technologies [PLTR] a potential $95.9 million contract to continue providing support to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Investigative Case Management System (ICM). HSI, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, investigates ...

The Pentagon Inspector General (IG) said last week that it plans to begin an audit of how the program for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 has maintained a real-time inventory in the Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS) of F-35s, aircraft parts in the global spares pool, support equipment ...

The U.K.’s Jankel has announced two key industry partners that will assist in its effort to help offer Oshkosh Defense’s [OSK] Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) to the British Armed Forces. Jankel said on Sept. 20 that British firm NP Aerospace and defense trade association Make UK Defence ...

AeroVironment [AVAV] has received two deals totaling $20.9 million to deliver Puma 3 AE small drones to a pair of allied nations as well as a $20.6 million contract from the Army for its Switchblade 300 loitering munitions, the company said last week. The new Army deal for Switchblade 300s was ...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring the SCOUT initiative and recently conducted an experiment to figure out how to better detect illicit maritime cargo and drug-running using unmanned technologies. This test event at Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Little Creek-Fort Story, Va., located ...