James Cannon, former president and CEO of FLIR Systems, has been appointed CEO of South Bend, Indiana-based military vehicle maker AM General. He succeeds R. Andy Hove, who has led AM General as president and chief executive over the past five years, the company said Monday. Cannon led FLIR Systems as the imaging technology vendor...
Brian Cummings, a retired U.S. Army major general, has been named vice president of combat vehicles, soldier systems and armaments at Alexandria, Virginia-based defense consultancy Cypress International. The 35-year military veteran brings leadership experience in Army acquisition programs for ground combat systems, soldier equipment and combat serv...
Several leaders from the government and GovCon community will participate in a Sept. 21 virtual event hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to discuss the role of threat intelligence in rooting out national security issues. GCW’s Cybersecurity in National Security Summit will feature two separate...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected three joint ventures and one independent company to offer architectural and engineering task orders under a three-year, $110 million contract. AECOM Technical Services, HDR GEI JV, Kleinfelder-Stantec USACE A JV and Tetra Tech-Black & Veatch JV are the awardees on the firm-fixed-price contract, the D...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a three-year, $101.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide Hellfire missile systems to domestic and international defense customers. Army Contracting Command obligated the full amount using defense-wide funds from the U.S. military and foreign military sales funds from Indonesia, Greece,...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has won a potential $91.3 million contract to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers define requirements for projects intended to address resilience and security challenges in military energy infrastructure. The McLean, Virginia-headquartered company will also perform vulnerability assessment work and explore potential...
Susan Moreira was elevated to the role of chief growth officer at Axiologic Solutions, where the more than two-decade business development professional most recently served as executive director, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday. Prior to joining the Fairfax, Virginia-based system engineering and information technology company, Moreira spent over ...
An MRM Construction Services and Sundt Construction joint venture, R.C. Construction, Southwest Concrete Paving, and Acme Construction Supply-RHB JV will compete for task orders under the U.S. Army’s airfield paving contract. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the firm-fixed-price contract for paving work is potentially worth $400 millio...
The U.S. Army and a subsidiary of German defense company Rheinmetall have agreed to jointly develop combat vehicle technologies under a cooperative research and development agreement. American Rheinmetall Vehicles will collaborate with the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Armaments Center to conduct R&D work focused on ammuni...
Portia Crowe, former chief data officer of the U.S. Army Futures Command’s Network Cross Functional Team, has been named chief data strategy director for defense at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm. She will be responsible for helping customers of Accenture Federal Services use data in insight generation and decision-making processes with...
