The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $75 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce and deliver prototypes of high-energy laser weapon systems for the service branch. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Virginia received seven offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-q...
In December, four major cloud service providers landed a spot on the Department of Defense’s $9 billion Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract, the Pentagon’s enterprise-wide cloud adoption effort. To take a deeper look at what each vendor brings to the contract, Executive Mosaic sat down with leaders from the four awardee companies: Amazon ...
David McKeown, senior information security officer and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity at the Department of Defense, became the latest government official to be inducted into the 2023 edition of the Wash100. McKeown’s first selection to receive the Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic reflects his leadership in DOD-wide effor...
Eighteen companies have won spots on a nine-year, $960 million U.S. Air Force contract to assist the Department of Defense and its partner nation agencies in combatting various security threats across the globe. USAF’s Air Combat Command Acquisition Management and Integration Center received 75 proposals for the Counter-Narcotics and Global Th...
Emerging trends and developments across the global defense landscape have catalyzed a shift within the United States toward new strategies, new technologies and refocused priorities. With factors such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the commercialization of space and the looming peer and near-peer threat, U.S. defense leaders are rethinking what the...
The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $2.5 billion contract to design and construct facilities in Guam and other areas of operations of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific. NAVFAC Pacific received nine proposals for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
As cloud technology matures and continues to take over the federal landscape, leaders across the government contracting ecosystem are learning key lessons that are helping shape the path forward. Chief among those lessons is that a multi-cloud approach works best, which is why the Department of Defense awarded its massive enterprise-wide cloud contr...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a potential three-year, $94.8 million delivery order under a U.S. Navy contract to support the branch’s Overlord Unmanned Surface Vessel and Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle platforms. The cost-plus-fixed-fee order has a $54.7 million base value for the performance of work through February 2024 and the award includes...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, said President Joe Biden’s defense budget request of $842 billion for fiscal year 2024 includes about $6 billion in funding to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and supply chains, DOD reported Monday. The $6 billion budget allocation includes long-term investments in the area...
David Diaddario, a nearly four-decade defense industry leader, has been appointed president of Hill Technical Solutions, a Huntsville, Alabama-based division of Valkyrie Enterprises, GovCon Wire has learned. He brings to the position 38 years of experience supporting the Department of Defense in technical, business development and management roles. ...
