L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Elbit Systems of America have won a four-year, $92.4 million shared contract to manufacture helmet-mounted image intensification technology for U.S. Army aviators. The two companies will compete for orders under the service branch’s Aviator’s Night Vision Imaging System III program, the Department of...
Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense should continue its focus on intellectual property and security and address challenges related to those two factors to safeguard and further advance innovation. He...
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected eight companies to compete for large construction projects within NAVFAC’s mid-Atlantic area of operations through a five-year, $950 million contract vehicle. The contractors can offer design-build and design-bid-build services to demolish, repair or modify facilities, the Department of...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has secured a potential four-year, $136.5 million contract to consolidate IT help desks for the U.S. Navy. The company will build a knowledge-based platform that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning and analytics technology to manage the branch&...
New York-based private equity firm ATL Partners has purchased Geost, an Arizona-based maker of sensors that can detect and protect satellites from other spacecraft and space debris, for an undisclosed sum, Defense One reported Wednesday. ATL plans to further build up Geost through acquisitions and investments and intends to boost the company’s bud...
Matt Donovan, most recently undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, will serve as vice president of customer engagement and solutions at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, effective Aug. 23. He will directly report to Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Intelligence and Space and a 2021 Wash100 Award ...
Omaha, Nebraska-based company 381 Constructors has won a potential $1.74 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to build multimission dry dock bays at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Mid-Atlantic received two non-price proposals for the construction project and obligated $70 million at the time of award ...
Eleven companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $702.2 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide office document management systems and services to U.S. military branches. The contractors are eligible to lease A3, A4 and multifunction printing machines for up to 60 months under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantit...
Seven joint ventures and seven independent firms have won spots on a potential $2 billion contract vehicle to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Air Force’s airfield infrastructure projects worldwide. The 772nd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron received 25 proposals for Pool 1 of the AE-Next acquisition program via full and ...
The Honorable Ken Krieg, founder of Samford Global Strategies and former undersecretary of the Department of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, retired as LMI’s board chair after holding the post for over two years and serving on the board for more than a decade. He helped LMI become a “digitally enabled consulting firm&#...
