The U.S. Navy is attempting to install identical information technology architectures on its ships, moving away from an approach that had as many as five basic network architectures, Rear Adm. Jerry Burroughs told Federal News Radio. Burroughs, the Navy’s C4I program executive officer (command, control, communications, computers and intelligence), said …

Four CEOs of aerospace and defense firms are again urging Congress and the White House to work together on avoiding the fiscal cliff, Aviation Week reports. At the same time, those four also acknowledged additional cuts to the defense budget may be part of a bipartisan plan to avoid the …

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants CEOs at 10 major government contractors to inform the committee if they sought external legal advice on whether they should send layoff notices to employees before the scheduled start date of sequestration. According to GovExec, Issa’s office sent a letter requesting that …

Senator John McCain wrote in a blog post that many defense contractors believe that the impending sequestration could lead to serious problems both in national security and employment rates. McCain, together with Senators Joe Lieberman, Jim Inhofe, Saxby Chambliss, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, and John Cornyn have asked 13 defense contractors …

If sequestration cuts take effect in January, the Defense Department would have to uniformly cut 11 percent uniformly from each of its estimated 2,500 budget items, Pentagon acquisition lead Frank Kendall recently said, according to Reuters. Kendall made the remarks Wednesday at the ComDef defense industry conference, Jim Wolf and …

Marion Blakey, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, announced that the 18 members of the Aerospace Industries Association executive committee will meet with Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on September 18, reports Jim Wolf for Reuters. Blakey shared last Tuesday that the meeting will potentially revolve around the impact of …

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently discussed potential impacts of $500 billion in sequestration cuts with several CEOs and senior executives of major government contracting firms, including CACI International CEO Dan Allen. Defense News reports the group also included Boeing Executive Vice President Jim Albaugh, Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush and …

Steven Shaw, most recently the Air Force’s top contract debarment and suspension official, has joined Covington & Burling LLP as senior of counsel for the firm’s Washington office. Shaw previously spent 15 years with the Air Force in the senior executive service and as deputy general counsel for contractor responsibility. …

American contractors are advocating the loosening of export restrictions on unmanned aerial vehicles to open up foreign markets to the revolutionary aircraft. According to an L.A. Times article, companies such as Northrop Grumman want to tap a foreign market that is eager for drones, which are already being sold by …

NASA has offered a buyout and early-out incentive program to 117 eligible positions at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., according to an agency email. Agency officials said they designed the workforce restructure plan to “successfully meet changing mission requirements.” The agency said applications for the incentive …