GovConWire's Government Contracting News 8/30/2022

Contract Awards

SAIC Reports $400M in Q2 FY 2023 Contracts From Space & Intell Sector; Michael LaRouche Quoted

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) booked approximately $400 million in space and intelligence contracts during the second quarter of its 2023 fiscal year. SAIC said Monday the contract awards include delivery and systems integration work and support for cloud and Joint All-Domain Command and Control programs. “As we accelerate the digital transformation of our

Events

Army Looks to Industry to Fill Capability Gaps in Software Acquisition Reform & Department-Wide Modernization

In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucratic, tedious and slow. “One of the

GovCon Expert

GovCon Expert Mick Fox: Evolving Your Contracts Organization to Create & Protect Value

Mick Fox, chief operating officer of Technomile, has provided his latest feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Tuesday. In his concluding article on the Federal Contract Management Maturity Model, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided his insights into how organizations are evolving to the Future-Enabling level of maturity. You can read Mick Fox’s next GovCon Expert

Contract Awards

Lockheed Books $504M Order for Australian Seahawk Helicopters

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $503.7 million firm-fixed-price order from the U.S. Navy to produce and deliver naval helicopters to the Australian government. The order involves the supply of a dozen Seahawk MH-60 “Romeo” aircraft units, manufactured by Lockheed’s Sikorsky business, to fulfill a foreign military sales requirement, the Department of Defense said Monday. Naval

Executive Moves

Former Northrop Exec Mick Jaggers Appointed Program Management VP at CAES

Mick Jaggers, a nearly 15-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined CAES to serve as vice president of program management at the Arlington, Virginia-headquartered aerospace and defense contractor. In a LinkedIn post Tuesday, he shared his transition from serving as a Northrop VP to joining the CAES team and organization. Jaggers worked on

Contract Awards

Small Business 5SRC Wins $266M Contract to Help Secure MDA Weapon Systems

Huntsville, Alabama-based small business Five Stones Research Corp. has won a five-year, $266.4 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks to weapon systems. 5SRC will additionally support the Department of Defense in efforts to integrate cybersecurity data into the system architecture, secure cloud-based information technology assets and evaluate proposed

News

Q&A With Day & Zimmermann’s Mike McGovern on Government Services Business’ Pillars, Growth Strategy

Mike McGovern, vice president of business development with Day & Zimmermann Government Services, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He talked about joining D&Z a year ago, his focus areas and the four pillars that extend to the company’s government services business and growth strategy. The Q&A also tackled market opportunities

Contract Awards

Collins Aerospace Gets $177M Air Force Comms System Support Contract

Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace subsidiary has received a potential six-year, $176.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide support for a ground radio network infrastructure and related antenna subsystems used for military command-and-control communications. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers support for the High Frequency Global Communications System – Scope Command Next

Executive Moves

Morgan Keese Named Airbus US Space & Defense Chief of Staff

Morgan Keese, formerly director of communications at Airbus U.S. Space and & Defense, has been appointed chief of staff at the Arlington, Virginia-based contractor, she announced Monday in a LinkedIn post. She has been with the company since August 2019 and previously served as director of government relations. Keese spent three years within the U.K.

News

TSA Posts Solicitation for Next Generation Credential Authentication Technology

The Transportation Security Administration is seeking proposals for a potential $128 million multiple-award contract to develop, install and maintain the new version of the agency’s facial recognition system used to authenticate passenger credentials. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will have an ordering period of seven years and will cover design, test support, installation, maintenance, engineering, program management

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 8/30/2022

SAIC Reports $400M in Q2 FY 2023 Contracts From Space & Intell Sector; Michael LaRouche Quoted

Army Looks to Industry to Fill Capability Gaps in Software Acquisition Reform & Department-Wide Modernization

GovCon Expert Mick Fox: Evolving Your Contracts Organization to Create & Protect Value

Lockheed Books $504M Order for Australian Seahawk Helicopters

Former Northrop Exec Mick Jaggers Appointed Program Management VP at CAES

Small Business 5SRC Wins $266M Contract to Help Secure MDA Weapon Systems

Q&A With Day & Zimmermann’s Mike McGovern on Government Services Business’ Pillars, Growth Strategy

Collins Aerospace Gets $177M Air Force Comms System Support Contract

Morgan Keese Named Airbus US Space & Defense Chief of Staff

TSA Posts Solicitation for Next Generation Credential Authentication Technology

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