GovConWire's Government Contracting News 8/31/2021

Executive Moves

Scott Recinos Promoted to LMI Homeland Security Market VP; Pete Pflugrath Quoted

Scott Recinos, a more than 15-year LMI veteran, has been elevated to the position of vice president for the homeland security market at the Tysons, Virginia-based management consultancy. He will nurture client and partner relationships, identify customers’ emerging and current needs, come up with approaches to support the National Security Strategy and help facilitate the

Contract Awards

AT&T Receives $609M Task Order for State Department Telecom Services; Chris Smith Quoted

AT&T (NYSE: T) has received a potential five-year, $609 million task order from the State Department to provide telecommunications support to more than 270 U.S. diplomatic locations across the globe. The company said Wednesday it will give department personnel access to enterprise-wide connectivity for data, mobile and voice networks, unified communications and Wi-Fi services. “As

C4ISR

SDA Solicits Proposals for Tranche 1 Transport Layer

The Space Development Agency has sought proposals from industry to design and build satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA expects the Tranche 1 Transport Layer to support warfighter missions worldwide by providing initial warfighting capability, global communications access and persistent regional encrypted connectivity, according to a solicitation

Executive Moves

Former Alion CIO Chris Soong Joins HII Technical Solutions Segment

Chris Soong, formerly the chief information officer of Alion Science and Technology, has been appointed to the same position at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division. HII added Soong to its executive team upon completion of the company’s $1.65 billion cash acquisition of Alion, the Virginia-based military shipbuilder said Monday. The more than

Industry News

Serco Centralizes Customer-Facing Tech Offerings After WBB Acquisition

Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has integrated customer-facing technology products and service offerings into a single business unit following its acquisition of Whitney, Bradley & Brown. Serco Inc. said Monday its agile staffing department will house an organization comprised of enterprise architecture, analytics, procurement management, engineering and logistics, strategy and operations and machine learning competencies.

M&A Activity

Collins Aerospace to Buy Digital Aviation Company FlightAware; Dave Nieuwsma Quoted

Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace subsidiary has agreed to acquire FlightAware for an undisclosed sum. Houston-based FlightAware is a digital aviation company with approximately 130 employees and has been delivering global flight tracking platforms, analytics, predictive technology and historical and real-time flight data to the aviation community since 2005, Raytheon said Monday. Collins will

Executive Moves

Bryan Walter Named VP, General Manager of Gordian Federal Business

Bryan Walter, former go-to-market lead for the cloud business at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm, has been appointed vice president and general manager of the federal solutions unit at construction information technology provider Gordian. He will lead Gordian’s efforts to help federal customers manage facilities and infrastructure assets through the use of software, the company

Contract Awards

Analogic to Deliver Mid-Size Checkpoint Scanners to TSA Under $198M Order

Analogic has secured a $198.4 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration for the procurement of mid-size computed tomography systems that the agency needs to increase aviation threat detection capabilities. According to a SAM notice posted Thursday, the firm-fixed-price order was awarded under a basic ordering agreement in support of TSA’s Checkpoint Property Screening System

Contract Awards

Navy Taps Methuen Construction to Build Dry Dock Two Complex at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

An MWH Constructors business was awarded a potential $93.8 million contract for fabrication and installation of multiple enclosures at the U.S. Navy’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Under the firm-fixed-price contract, Methuen Construction will build the PNS Dry Dock Two complex that will have both permanent and relocatable enclosures consisting of towers, bridge cranes,

News

Army, Rheinmetall Sign Cooperative Agreement to Develop Combat Vehicle Tech

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 ammunition, fire control and weapon systems, the company said

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 8/31/2021

Scott Recinos Promoted to LMI Homeland Security Market VP; Pete Pflugrath Quoted

AT&T Receives $609M Task Order for State Department Telecom Services; Chris Smith Quoted

SDA Solicits Proposals for Tranche 1 Transport Layer

Former Alion CIO Chris Soong Joins HII Technical Solutions Segment

Serco Centralizes Customer-Facing Tech Offerings After WBB Acquisition

Collins Aerospace to Buy Digital Aviation Company FlightAware; Dave Nieuwsma Quoted

Bryan Walter Named VP, General Manager of Gordian Federal Business

Analogic to Deliver Mid-Size Checkpoint Scanners to TSA Under $198M Order

Navy Taps Methuen Construction to Build Dry Dock Two Complex at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Army, Rheinmetall Sign Cooperative Agreement to Develop Combat Vehicle Tech

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