Clayton Jones, a cybersecurity professional with more than two decades of combined industry and government experience, has been named chief technology officer at Reston, Virginia-based data analytics and security company Aperio Global. He will aim to drive Aperio’s portfolio growth and work closely with its executive team to accelerate technol...
Four companies have secured other transaction agreements worth a combined $24.25 million to offer commercially based variants of the U.S. Army’s Common Tactical Truck. Mack Defense, Navistar Defense, Oshkosh Defense and the American Rheinmetall Vehicles–GM Defense team will each submit three prototypes of the M915 Line Haul Tractor and M...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a $656.8 million modification under an U.S. Army contract for the production and delivery of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Australia. The Australian government obligated the full amount of the award through the Department of Defense’s foreign military sales program, according t...
A Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has received a one-year, $90.2 million contract modification to provide virtualization support for U.S. Army infrastructure network environments that run VMware software applications. The work is expected to be carried out by Jan. 22, 2024, in Rock Round, Texas, the Department of Defense said Friday. Dell ...
Frank Sturek, former president of SkyePoint Decisions, has been named CEO at Lexington Park, Maryland-based technology and engineering services company Compendium Federal Technology. CFT said Wednesday his appointment comes nearly a week after private equity firm Boathouse Capital acquired the company. Sturek noted CFT’s work to...
John Wason, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who most recently served as staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been appointed as president and chief operating officer of Cypress International. His appointment is effective Jan. 30 and he will bring knowledge and skills the Alexandria, Virginia-based consulting firm believes...
The U.S. Army awarded the defense arm of Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) a $141 million firm-fixed-price contract to manufacture A2 medium tactical trucks and trailers. Contract work is projected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2024, and will be funded on a per-order basis, the Department of Defense said Friday. The service branch uses the Oshkosh...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) is set to manufacture a rocket motor at full capacity to power the U.S. Army’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System and fulfill capacity requirements under a production contract from GMLRS prime contractor Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). Lockheed’s final assembly facility in Camden, Arkansas, takes in missile ro...
The Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation has posted a draft solicitation for a potential seven-year, $250 million contract vehicle that seeks to equip mission training complexes with multipurpose training and simulation equipment. A notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov says the Battle Command Training Equipment con...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will manufacture a dozen CH-47F Chinook helicopters for the Egyptian air force under a $426 million contract from the U.S. Army to address a foreign military sale requirement. Deliveries of the F-model cargo aircraft are projected to commence sometime in 2026, the planemaker said Tuesday. The award comes less than one year...
