56 I-CONNECT007 MAGAZINE I MARCH 2026
MIL/AERO007
CACI's Spectral Program With the U.S. Navy
Achieves Milestone C ⊲
CACI International Inc announced the Spectral
program has successfully completed rigorous
review by the U.S. Navy's Program Executive
Office for Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence (PEO C4I), achieving
Milestone C.
SAIC Awarded New $95M GAO Contract to
Drive Agile IT Transformation and Innovation ⊲
Science Applications International Corp. has offi-
cially been awarded a new $95 million contract by
the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
to provide comprehensive, full-scale IT services
and solutions for the Technical Information Servic-
es (TIS) program. Under this contract, the company
will deliver end-to-end IT solutions designed to
support the GAO mission of a revamped and more
efficient IT environment that best suits the evolving
needs of GAO users.
L3Harris Appoints Ken Sharp Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer, Ken
Bedingfield President of Missile Solutions ⊲
L3Harris Technologies announced the appoint-
ment of Kenneth (Ken) Sharp as Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effec-
tive March 16. Kenneth (Ken) Bedingfield will
focus exclusively on leading the Missile Solutions
segment and rapidly scaling solid rocket motor
manufacturing to meet the nation's urgent missile
demand.
Hellas Sat, CNES, Thales Alenia Space and Safran
Sign Framework Cooperation Agreement ⊲
Operator Hellas Sat, the French Space Agency
(CNES), Thales Alenia Space—a joint venture
between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) —and
Safran have signed a framework cooperation
agreement to develop a next-generation optical
communications system to be hosted on the future
Hellas Sat 5 geostationary telecommunications
satellite and the associated Optical ground station
to be deployed in Cyprus.
CCC, Curtiss-Wright Win 4-year Contract to
Supply Helicopter Landing System to U.S. Navy ⊲
CCC is pleased to announce that it was awarded
a four-year contract by the U.S. Department of
Defense (U.S. DoD) to supply the U.S. Naval Air
Warfare Centre with Recover Assist Securing and
Traversing (RAST) systems. Under the contract,
Curtiss-Wright's Mississauga, Ontario, facility, part
of Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Systems, will
manufacture the systems and provide technical
field support to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center.
Lockheed Martin's NGC2 Prototype Powers Live-
Fire Mission Success at Lightning Surge 2 ⊲
During a live fires exercise at Lightning Surge
2, working in close collaboration with the U.S.
Army's 25th Infantry Division (25ID) and Capability
Program Executive Command and Control Infor-
mation Network (CPE C2IN), the Lockheed Martin
Team successfully demonstrated how their Next
Generation Command and Control (NGC2) proto-
type enables soldiers to sense, see, and strike at
distance across echelons.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, ARMADA Form
Alliance to Support U.S. Navy in Japan ⊲
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (SHI) and IMIA, an
operating company of ARMADA, announced the
signing of their Alliance Agreement, launching a
strategic partnership to support U.S. Navy opera-
tions in Japan and surrounding regions.
Chariot Defense Raises $34M Series A Led by
Andreessen Horowitz ⊲
Chariot Defense, a defense technology company
pioneering next-generation battlefield power
systems, announced it has raised $34 million in
Series A funding, bringing total funding to $41
million. Power is becoming the critical constraint
across military operations. To solve this pressing
challenge, Chariot Defense has built a deploy-
able, software-defined power layer that senses,
prioritizes, and routes power across mission-critical
systems in real time, enabling warfighters to oper-
ate without interruption, detectable signature, or
wasted capacity.
ST Engineering iDirect's European Center Chosen
for NATO ESSM Block II Program ⊲
ST Engineering iDirect announced that its Manu-
facturing Competence Center (MCC), located in
Erpe-Mere, Belgium, has been selected by Raythe-
on, an RTX business, to support the Evolved Sea
Sparrow Missile (ESSM®) Block II program.
