General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business and Sierra Nevada have won positions on a potential 10-year, $774.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide soldiers with updated cryptographic key loading devices to help secure joint service network systems. Army Contracting Command received five bids for the Next Generation Load Devic...
Mara Elizabeth Karlin, principal deputy assistant secretary for international security affairs at the Defense Department, was confirmed by the Senate to serve as DOD’s assistant secretary for strategy, plans and capabilties. Senators approved the nomination by voice vote Monday, following a series of congressional events that took place since ...
Lisa Disbrow, chair of the audit and finance committee on LMI’s board of directors, has been elected board chair at the Tysons, Virginia-based management consultancy. She succeeds Ken Krieg, who has held the chairman role since April 2019 and has served on the board since 2008, the nonprofit company said Monday. LMI noted it saw...
Express Scripts has secured a potential multi-year $4.3 billion contract to help the Defense Health Agency manage pharmacy benefit-related activities across all 50 states; Washington, D.C; Guam; Puerto Rico; and the Virgin Islands. The company will provide management services in support of the TRICARE Pharmacy Benefit Program, which delivers prescri...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed a plan designed to guide the military’s implementation activities aimed at ensuring U.S. electromagnetic spectrum advantage and providing warfighters with “freedom of action” in the EMS. The Department of Defense said Thursday its operations in air, land, maritime, space and cyberspace doma...
Daniel Ragsdale, former principal director for cyber in the Department of Defense’s research and engineering office, has been appointed vice president and architect at Arlington, Virginia-based Two Six Technologies. The retired U.S. Army colonel brings his three decades of military experience and his knowledge of cybersecurity to the technolog...
Austal USA, Epsilon Systems Solutions and Continental Maritime of San Diego have secured positions on a 19-month, $344.7 million contract to sustain littoral combat ships for the U.S. Navy. The three shipyard operators will compete for delivery orders to perform sustainment work on LCS vessels homeported in San Diego, the Department of Defense said ...
Crowley‘s government services business will continue to help U.S. Transportation Command coordinate surface freight activity for two Defense Department agencies under a one-year, $453 million contract modification. The company will perform work for the Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Contract Management Agency through July 31, 2022, as pa...
Gregory Kausner, executive director for international cooperation at the Department of Defense, has been assigned to perform the duties of defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment. DOD said Tuesday it also appointed Paul Cramer, DOD’s principal deputy assistant secretary for sustainment (installations), to serve as Kausner’...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary will continue to engineer operational strategic and attack submarines for the U.S. Navy under a $225.1 million contract modification. Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $3.1 million at the time of award and expects GDEB to complete services in September 2023, the Department of Defense ...
