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Business/FinancialJaramillo Out as Jacobs CFO
Claudia Jaramillo, Jacobs Solutions’ chief financial officer, will leave the Dallas-based company effective April 15 after less than a year in the job, the company said Monday in a regulatory […]
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Defense Watch: CNO Carrier Push, Lasers, Army Aviation Pivot, Last Delta IV Heavy
Army Ammo. The Army has selected General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and Northrop Grumman for a new $3.05 billion contract to manufacture medium caliber training cartridges, the Pentagon announced […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNo Possibility of Settling Enviros’ Suit Against S.C. Pit Plant
Settlement talks collapsed weeks ago between the Department of Energy and environmental groups who sued the agency over its plan to produce nuclear-weapons cores in South Carolina, a Tuesday court […]
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Defense Watch: SpaceX Contract, Replicator Sandbox, Churn on Hill, LTAMDS Demo
SpaceX Contract with DoD for Ukraine. Last summer came news that Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, had signed a contract in June with DoD to continue providing the company’s […]
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Force MultipliersCarolyn Duby, Cloudera Government Solutions, Inc.
In this monthly column, Defense Daily highlights individuals from across the government, industry and academia whose efforts contribute daily to national defense, from the program managers to the human resource […]
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Defense Watch: Fixed Price Vs Cost Plus, Indemnification, VC Cheers Palantir Win, Drone Corps
Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Plus. U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter says that the service will continue to rely on fixed price contracts for mature production programs and that the real […]
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Defense Watch: Emphasis On Space Ground Systems, SBIRS High, DHS CUAS Testing, Firefly Expansion
Delivering Ground Before Launch. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has said that the ground elements of space programs have traditionally come with big headaches. Assistant Secretary of the Air […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Earnings Rise in 2023, Fourth Quarter; DoE Award a ‘Wild Card’
Earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT] for 2023, which the maker of nuclear naval reactors and manager of nuclear weapons sites attributed Tuesday mostly to favorable adjustments on government contracts. […]
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Defense Watch: Rheinmetall/UKR Ammo Plant, Rocket Lab Financing, Maven Day
Rheinmetall Ammo. Germany’s Rheinmetall said on Feb. 17 it plans to open a new ammunition plant in Ukraine. Rheinmetall and an unnamed “Ukrainian partner company” have established a new joint […]
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Business/FinancialFluor Posts Fourth Quarter Loss
Earnings fell at Fluor [FLR] in the fourth quarter, which the engineering and construction company, active in the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex, attributed Tuesday to a legal settlement […]
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