The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee took DoD to task for their failing FITARA scores and lack of transparency in spending. The DoD moved $15 billion in IT spending to the classified National Security System, which has an exemption to FITARA reporting, reported Defense News, and lawmakers were unhappy with the appearance that DoD...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has won a potential five-year, $80.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to conduct warfare analysis, software development, modeling and simulation efforts for the Naval Air Systems Command’s mission engineering and analysis department. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity co...
“For all the heartache caused by the loss of our troops during these wars, no enemy in the field has done more to harm to the readiness of our military than sequestration,” said Defense Secretary James Mattis, a 40 year Marine veteran commander, who argued that it will “require years of stable budgets and increased...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential 10-year, $104.6 million contract to develop and test a production representative article of Advanced Radar Threat System Variant 2 for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday the single-award contract includes an option for the company to produce up to 20 ARTS-V2...
The U.S. Navy has awarded four companies positions on a potential five-year, $1.73 billion contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services for land and maritime-based unmanned aerial systems. The Naval Air Systems Command received four offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that c...
Jenette Ramos, formerly vice president and general manager of fabrication at Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) commercial airplanes business, has been named senior VP for supply and operations of the aerospace and defense contractor. The 29-year company veteran succeeds Pat Shanahan, who was nominated in March by the Trump administration for the deputy ...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has won a potential $498 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide commercial infrastructure services for the milCloud 2.0 private cloud platform for Defense Department networks. Five proposals were submitted to DISA for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers mi...
Hyster-Yale Group has won a potential five-year, $400 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply material handling equipment to U.S. military services and federal civilian agencies. DLA received five responses for the contract via a competitive procurement and will use defense working capital funds for fiscal 2017 through fiscal 20...
Weekly Roundup June 5 – June 9 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This past Wednesday, President Trump brought attention to his plan to overhaul the crumbling infrastructure of the U.S. During a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, Trump called for bipartisan coope...
Christian Marrone, a CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) vice president and chief of staff, has been promoted to a senior VP role at the Falls Church, Virginia-based technology services contractor, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, Marrone is responsible for CSRA’s external relations function, strategy to strengthen relationshi...
