Vertex Aerospace has secured a five-year, $458.2 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to establish a new depot site for the F-5 Adversary aircraft, serving both the military branch and the Marine Corps. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also calls for organizational, selected intermediate and limited depot lev...
Versar, an engineering, security and environmental services provider, has acquired Louis Berger Services from Canada-based WSP Global for an undisclosed sum. LBS has approximately 1,400 employees and provides contingency logistics, aerial port operations, transportation asset maintenance, ground support and other operations and maintenance services ...
Amentum has secured a potential eight-year, $818 million contract to modernize and maintain F-16 fighter jets used in U.S. Navy air combat training. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award includes work to help the branch’s Viper Maintenance Group expand the adversary training fleet, the company said Wednesday. “Navy F-16 Vipers pl...
The Defense Innovation Unit is inviting industry and academia to propose commercial open source intelligence platforms that will work to help the Department of Defense collect and analyze information on science and technology developments by foreign state competitors and adversaries. DOD is eyeing U.S.-made OSINT prototypes that can use machine lear...
As the U.S. military pivots toward the escalating peer competition and accelerates its migration to the cloud, its leaders are examining how to leverage cloud computing from operational scenarios all the way to the tactical edge. Expanding the military’s technological capabilities at the edge is going to be paramount in the future fight, according...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Mike Corkery, president and CEO of Deltek, to discuss the company’s growth and record breaking year in 2021 ahead of its 40th anniversary. He also talked about the efforts to sustain that momentum, the company culture and Deltek Project Nation as well as the recently...
The Defense Department’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative is underway within federal agencies and military branches, following the release of the DOD’s JADC2 implementation plan in March 2022. One central component of JADC2 is modernizing the way mission partners and coalitions share information, especially as toda...
Wednesday’s Space Acquisition Forum, hosted by GovCon Wire Events, brought together leading space experts from government and commercial organizations to examine the acquisition reform goals, technology focus areas and critical capability gaps shaping innovation across the space domain as the U.S. continues its pursuit of space superiority over ...
Nick Warner, chief operating officer at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said federal agencies should look at the potential of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other autonomous capabilities in protecting critical assets and sensitive data of citizens from cyberthreats and accelerating the detection of cyber vulnerabilities. “These automations a...
Robert Dapkiewicz, senior vice president and general manager of MetTel‘s federal business, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. He discussed the company’s upcoming 25th anniversary and the last decade of growth in the federal sector, its efforts to differentiate itself in the current...
