Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report outlining the components of a potential $740 billion annual defense policy bill approved by the House Armed Services Committee. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that the full House panel voted 57-2 Thursday, Sept. 2, to pass the ...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, has approved 16 advisory boards to resume operations after considering some recommendations of a zero-based review of all advisory committees within DOD, Defense News reported Friday. In February, Austin ordered the immediate suspension of all 42 advisory boards to...
Trace Systems has won a potential five-year, $600 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to procure, integrate, install, operate and maintain communications systems for U.S. Air Forces Central Command. The Vienna, Virginia-based company will perform work throughout USAFCENT’s area of operations within Southwest Asia, the ...
Five companies have landed spots on a $249 million multiple-award contract to support construction projects at the U.S. Navy’s support facility in the British Indian Ocean Territory atoll known as Diego Garcia. Contractors will compete for task orders to renovate offices, replace or repair built-in equipment, work on electrical and mechanical ...
A Noblis subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $187.46 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide research, program management, systems engineering and end-to-end system design support for the service’s command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. Noblis MSD will also provide integratio...
Joseph Bryan, senior adviser for climate at the Department of Defense, and Ecological Futures Group founder Rod Schoonover will participate in Sept. 14 event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss climate change issues affecting national security initiatives. Bryan is a former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center an...
M.C. Dean has secured a $158.7 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to modernize a power generation plant at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado. The company will also update the military installation’s supervisory control and data acquisition system as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Frid...
Seven companies have been selected to support military parachuting activities under a five-year, $200 million contract awarded by U.S. Special Operations Command. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is intended to address military freefall and static line requirements of Naval Special Warfare Command across various l...
Teledyne FLIR has appointed JihFen Lei, former principal deputy and acting director of research and engineering at the Defense Department, as vice president and general manager of the company’s surveillance business, Politico reported Monday. Her appointment comes about two months after Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) acquired FLIR Systems. ...
Deborah Dunie, former executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined the board of directors of Perry, Georgia-based Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO John Wilcox said in a statement published Monday Dunie brings to the company over 30 years of experience serving in the Department of Defens...
