Posts from GovConWire for 11/19/2015

William LaPlante to Leave USAF Acquisition Lead Post to Join Mitre

William LaPlante will step down as assistant secretary for acquisition at the U.S. Air Force after three years on the job and transition to a senior role at Mitre, the military branch announced Thursday…

Morocco’s Request to Buy $157M in Raytheon Missiles Gets State Dept Approval

The State Department has cleared Morocco’s request to purchase TOW 2A missiles, related equipment and services from the U.S. government under a potential $157 million contract. Raytheon’s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business will serve as the prime contractor for the sale that includes 600 TOW 2A radio-frequency missiles, 300 M220A2 TOW launchers and seven TOW 2A RF fly-to-buy lot acceptance missiles, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday…

100 Lawmakers Ask House Appropriations Committee for $32B Funding for NIH

At least 100 lawmakers have sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee to call for annual funding of more than $32 billion to support the National Institutes of Health‘s biomedical research…

Raytheon Completes Sonar Platform Delivery to DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has received a Raytheon-built sonar system for integration with the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Raytheon said Wednesday it handed the Modular Scalable Sonar System to DARPA as part of a subcontract it won from Leidos…

Tony Scott: Agencies Should Share Cyber Systems as Part of Long-Term Strategy

Federal CIO Tony Scott believes federal agencies must share cyber systems alongside information to build up government cybersecurity and shared responsibility, FedScoop reported Tuesday. Billy Mitchell writes that Scott said at the publication’s FedTalks event the sharing of cybersecurity technologies narrows down potential vulnerabilities…