Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air Force
USAF Awards BAE Systems Nearly $1.2 Billion Extension for ICBM Support
The day before BAE Systems‘ nearly dozen year, $1.9 billion Integrated Support Contract for the ICBM fields was to expire, the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center’s ICBM directorate at […]
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Air Force
Northrop Grumman Wins B-21 Second LRIP Lot Award, Company Positioned for Sixth Generation Aircraft Competitions, CEO Says
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Thursday that it received, as expected, a U.S. Air Force contract in the fourth quarter last year for the second low-rate initial production (LRIP) lot […]
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Space
L3Harris Receives Space Force Software Contract to Meet ATLAS IOC, Planned for September
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has awarded L3Harris Technologies [LHX] a nearly $90 million cost-plus-fixed fee contract through October 2027 with two option periods for the Advanced Tracking […]
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Air Force
Five Teams to Focus on Space Domain Awareness for Space Rapid Capabilities Office
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., on Wednesday identified five teams of small businesses and “leading prime integrators to advance integrated satellites” under […]
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Space
Array Labs Teams with Raytheon and Umbra Space on 3D Imaging
Silicon Valley’s Array Labs, Inc.–a four-year-old startup that aims to field a constellation of low Earth orbit, three dimensional, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) cube satellites with 20 centimeter x 20 […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Los Alamos’ Plutonium Pit Production of 30 Annually for Sentinel May Have to Wait Beyond 2026
As the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) awaits its marching orders from the Trump administration, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is now saying it will get […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
GE Aerospace and RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Score Big Prototype Contracts for NGAP
GE Aerospace [GE] and RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney on Monday received U.S. Air Force contracts worth up to $3.5 billion each for technology maturation and risk reduction (TMRR) in […]
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Air Force
No Answers from Pentagon on Deportation Costs Nor Share for DoD/DHS
As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and DoD undertake what could be the deportation of up to 13 million persons in the United […]
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Unmanned Systems
Eric Schmdit-Backed Foundation Advises New Tech Innovation Budget for DoD
The Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) is advising the Trump administration to create a new tech innovation budget for artificial intelligence (AI), software and automation in the Department of Defense–an […]
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Pentagon
As Some Top Defense Companies Stay Mum, Lockheed Martin Says It Will Abide by Trump Executive Order on DEI
A number of top defense companies, including Northrop Grumman [NOC], RTX [RTX], and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] have been mum on President Trump’s “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” executive […]