GovConWire's Government Contracting News 3/31/2022

News

GDMS President Chris Brady Selected to 2022 Wash100 Award Class for Innovation in Autonomy

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award – an annual recognition of government contracting executives who have demonstrated an elite level of vision, leadership and innovation within the federal landscape. This year, Brady receives his third consecutive Wash100 Award for driving GDMS’

Contract Awards

Navy Selects HII’s Remus 300 as Next-Gen Small UUV Program of Record; Andy Green Quoted

The U.S. Navy has selected the Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle from Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as the military service’s next generation small UUV program of record. HII photo The branch made the selection after a rapid prototyping initiative that ran for two years and will move the Lionfish SUUV program forward with UUV

Events

GovCon Wire Events to Host Fireside Chat With Acting National Weather Service Director Mary Erickson

GovCon Wire Events will host a fireside chat on Tuesday, April 5 with Mary Erickson, acting assistant administrator for weather services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and acting director of the National Weather Service. Erickson will offer insights on weather and climate forecasting and how NWS works to improve satellite, aircraft and surface

Contract Awards

Navy Awards $222M Sonobuoy Production Contract Option to Lockheed, ERAPSCO

Naval Sea Systems Command has issued a $222 million modification on a sonobuoy production contract shared between Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ERAPSCO. The two companies will compete for orders and deliver up to 18,000 units of the AN/SSQ-125A series sonobuoy to the U.S. Navy under an exercised contract option, the Department of Defense said

M&A Activity

Bluestone’s Portfolio Company cBEYONData Buys Alta Via Consulting; Dyson Richards Quoted

Professional services firm cBEYONData has acquired Alta Via Consulting for an undisclosed sum to establish a combined entity that will provide enterprise resource planning, financial and data analytics platforms and services to federal government customers. The combined firm will operate with over 240 employees that are focused on delivering business intelligence, ERP design and architecture,

News

Executive Spotlight With Box’s Wyn Elder Discusses Company’s Growth Initiatives, 3 Pillars of Capability Development

In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Wyn Elder, managing director of global and U.S. public sector at Box, to know more about the company’s growth initiatives and the three pillars of developing capabilities for public sector customers. He also tackled the impact of recent acquisitions on Box’s portfolio, the hurdles on

Executive Moves

Stephen Kirin Promoted to Mitre Enterprise Operations VP

Stephen Kirin, who joined Mitre in 2002, has been promoted to serve as vice president of enterprise operations at the nonprofit research and development contractor. The retired U.S. Army colonel will oversee business priorities and operational activities throughout the Mitre enterprise and lead management of corporate strategy, objectives and measures, the nonprofit said Wednesday. Kirin

Financial Reports

GovCon Expert Jim McAleese Offers Analysis of White House’s $5.8T FY23 Budget Request

A McAleese & Associates report says President Joe Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2023 suggests that the federal government now accounts for 23 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product valued at approximately $25.6 trillion. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, said the proposed $1.6 trillion

Executive Moves

Maria Hedden Joins Comtech as COO

Maria Hedden, a defense and communications industry veteran with more than two decades of management experience, has joined Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) as chief operating officer. Hedden will be responsible for driving Comtech’s operational performance through production improvement, delivery scheduling and engineering initiatives, the wireless communications company said Wednesday. She most recently served as senior

News

Jerry McGinn, GMU GovCon Center Executive Director, Gets 2nd Wash100 Recognition

Executive Mosaic has inducted Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, into the 2022 Wash100 class for his thought leadership in defense acquisition and intellectual property protection. McGinn has been selected two consecutive times to Executive Mosaic’s annual list of leaders who shape the GovCon

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 3/31/2022

GDMS President Chris Brady Selected to 2022 Wash100 Award Class for Innovation in Autonomy

Navy Selects HII’s Remus 300 as Next-Gen Small UUV Program of Record; Andy Green Quoted

GovCon Wire Events to Host Fireside Chat With Acting National Weather Service Director Mary Erickson

Navy Awards $222M Sonobuoy Production Contract Option to Lockheed, ERAPSCO

Bluestone’s Portfolio Company cBEYONData Buys Alta Via Consulting; Dyson Richards Quoted

Executive Spotlight With Box’s Wyn Elder Discusses Company’s Growth Initiatives, 3 Pillars of Capability Development

Stephen Kirin Promoted to Mitre Enterprise Operations VP

GovCon Expert Jim McAleese Offers Analysis of White House’s $5.8T FY23 Budget Request

Maria Hedden Joins Comtech as COO

Jerry McGinn, GMU GovCon Center Executive Director, Gets 2nd Wash100 Recognition

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