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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has selected five companies for a potential 10-year, $535M contract to provide information technology support services throughout the DTRA enterprise. Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) IT business, Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), NT Concepts and Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will compete for task orders under the …

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Jim Reagan, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Leidos, with his third consecutive 2019 Wash100 Award on Tuesday. The Wash100 award, in its sixth annual year, recognizes the most influential and impactful executives in the GovCon industry, as selected …

Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Tapestry Solutions subsidiary has won a potential 10-year, $259M contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop software for the U.S. military and allied foreign countries to plan weapon missions. Tapestry will build, update and provide support services for the Weapon Planning Software suite under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, …

Chris Wilkinson, vice president of sales at DLT Solutions, has elevated to senior vice president ranks at the Herndon, Va.-based government technology contractor. He will be responsible for aligning DLT’s sales organization with go-to-market strategies intended to drive growth across the government and education sectors, the company said Thursday. Wilkinson has helped …

Harris (NYSE: HRS) has received a $168.8M contract modification to provide additional integrated countermeasure systems and other components for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 multirole combat jets. The Navy exercised an option under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to buy 78 Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures Onboard Jammer systems as part of the program’s …

Sean Dillon, former chief technology officer of the homeland security portfolio at Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business, has been named CTO of information technology and management consulting services provider Strategic Enterprise Solutions. SE Solutions said Thursday Dillon will be based in the company’s Tysons Corner, Va., headquarters. The U.S. Marine Corps …

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has won a potential eight-year, $150M contract to develop an aircraft technology under the first phase of the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission-Capability program. The Department of Defense said Thursday the company’s aerospace business will perform work in Phoenix, Ariz., and is expected to finish by Feb. 20, …

Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) innovation systems segment has received a $173.7M contract modification from the U.S. Army to supply M1156 kits designed to transform artillery projectiles into GPS-guided weapons. The service obligated the full amount at the time of award from its fiscal 2019 “other” procurement funds, the Department of …

Jennifer Tetatzin, a retired U.S. Navy commander, has joined Concurrent Technologies Corp. as senior principal program adviser of the company’s Marine Corps Installations Command Installation Energy program. CTC said Thursday Tetatzin will serve as a leader within the company’s strategic advisory services group, which supports the Marine Corps’ energy program …

A BAE Systems subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $90.5M contract for technical support to help the U.S. Navy implement and deploy mobile command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers up to 1M man-hours of engineering and operational systems customization support for the …