Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said the service will award the construction contract this spring for the first new heavy icebreaker in more than 40 years. The Coast Guard eventually plans to acquire at least three Polar Security Cutters (PSC) as part of its requirement for six new ...

The initial deployments of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) aboard the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutters (NSCs) are proving to be a “game changer” and the service will accelerate the use of the systems aboard the fleet of new-high endurance cutters, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl ...

Boeing [BA] on Wednesday named B. Marc Allen, current president of Boeing International, as a senior vice president of the company and president of its pending partnership with Brazil’s commercial aerospace and defense company Embraer S.A. [ERJ]. Allen, 45, will report to Dennis Muilenburg, ...

Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] on Wednesday said that Nazzic Keene, the company’s CEO-elect, will be assuming day-to-day responsibility for the company as outgoing CEO Tony Moraco takes on an advisory role for the transition to the executive changes. The company also said that it ...

The Department of Homeland Security agency responsible for working with the federal civilian government and the private sector to protect their information networks is seeking just over $1 billion in cyber security spending in fiscal year 2020, about the same amount that Congress appropriated in FY ...

The Coast Guard is seeking $457 million for its Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program in fiscal year 2020, including funding for construction of the third medium-endurance cutter and long-lead purchase for the fourth and fifth ships. If Congress fully funds the OPC request, the program will ...