The U.S. Navy has awarded 11 companies positions on a potential six-year, $778.9 million contract to provide engineering and technical services in support of the modernization of the service’s hull, mechanical and electrical systems. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division received 11 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delive...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will develop 5G-enabled prototypes of virtual training and spectrum sharing systems for two military installations as part of a potential $600 million experimentation and testing program the Department of Defense announced in October 2020. The company said Thursday it plans to use its Digital Soldier augmented reality...
Marianne Bailey, former executive at the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense, has joined Cohesity as an adviser to help the San Jose, California-based company’s federal clients manage and secure their data. “Marianne’s vast experience in the intelligence and defense communities make her a perfect fit for Cohesity as we furth...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $1.54 billion contract modification to design, build and integrate equipment in support of flight test demonstrations of the U.S. Navy’s missile system. The company’s space business will perform work in Colorado, California, Utah, Massachusetts, New York, Alabama, Maryland, Arizona, Louisiana,...
Carey Smith, president and chief operating officer for Parsons, has received a Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, for the third time in her career. With her third Wash100 Award win, Smith’s contributions to t...
Byron Bright, president for Government Solutions at KBR, was presented his second consecutive Wash100 Award on Wednesday by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. Bright received the most respected and coveted award in government contracting (GovCon) for the second consecutive year for his efforts to develop milita...
Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) has secured a $476 million contract to supply T55 turboshaft engines for the U.S. Army’s CH-47 Chinook helicopter fleet. The service branch is also procuring electronic control units and installation kits from Honeywell through the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Monday. Army Contra...
Gregory Nixon, chairman of Navistar Defense, has returned to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management as head of strategic investments, senior legal counsel and senior managing director. He will lead Cerberus’ efforts to identify new investment opportunities across the defense, technology and security markets, the New York City-based co...
The Perduco Group has secured a potential $500 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Space Force to help the country’s military branches analyze procurement gaps. The LinQuest subsidiary will perform tradespace analysis work to help inform resourcing decisions at USSF, the Air Force, Navy, Army and other agenci...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s investment arm, will collaborate to help 150 research teams transition ideas from laboratories to the technology production phase over the next five years through the Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative, Nextgov reported Thursday. Through EEI, the agency ...
