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The U.S. Army has awarded Sotera Defense Solutions a potential five-year, $89 million task order to provide information operations support for the Intelligence and Security Command and 1st Information Operations Command. The service branch awarded the task order through the Global Intelligence Support Services indefinite-delivery/indefinit...

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will supply Griffin A and Griffin B Block II and III missiles and provide engineering support services to the U.S. Air Force under an $85.5 million contract. The Defense Department said Wednesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is a sole-source award and includes test and support equipment for the ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) a $180.2 million ‘other transaction’ agreement and Space Exploration Technologies a $61.4 million OTA to build alternative propulsion systems for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Space and Missile Systems Center received mult...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 13, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for U.S. government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, believes an ongoing collaborative program between the company, the Defense Department and other satellite operators will help boost commercial-military space operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cowen...

The U.S. Army has awarded positions on a potential four-year, $900 million contract to 17 companies to provide logistics support services for the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense. The contractors will compete for individual task orders under the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the D...

ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will provide systems modernization support to defense and intelligence agencies under a potential five-year, $200 million contract from the Defense Department. The company said Tuesday the contract covers systems engineering, integration, sustainment and deployment support services for global Intelligence Co...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential one-year, $80 million contract modification to perform computer program baseline design work on Aegis combat systems aboard the U.S. Navy™s warships. The service branch awarded the contract modification to exercise the options under the Aegis Combat System Engineering Agent prog...

Stanley Sims, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former director of the Defense Security Service, has been appointed chief security officer at CGI (NYSE: GIB). He joins the company after more than 30 years of federal and military service and will oversee programs to secure the company’s physical and cyber infrastructure in his new ...

Peter Blocker, former vice president of the integrated mission systems business unit at Sierra Nevada, has joined MCR Federal as vice president for the latter company™s defense sector business in the U.S. Southeast region. Blocker will oversee MCR™s office in Huntsville, Alabama and work with defense sector clients in Florida, Georgia and ...

William Haynes II, formerly executive vice president and general counsel of SIGA Technologies, has joined CSRA Inc. (NYSE: CSRA) as EVP, general counsel and corporate secretary. Haynes will be responsible for the company’s legal affairs, compliance and corporate governance, CSRA said Friday. “We’re delighted that someone with Jim&#...