Erik Cecere, former director of contracts and pricing at LongView International Technology Solutions, was appointed as senior vice president of delivery operations at DecisionPoint, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive brings to his new role at the information technology services and consulting provider nearly two decades of experience in f...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 92 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract to come up with innovative approaches to advance the development of multidomain systems. The Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the contracting activity and received 94 proposals for the indefinite-delivery/i...
Thomas Kennedy, former executive chairman of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has been appointed to the board of directors at Textron (NYSE: TXT). Textron said Wednesday the 38-year industry veteran and former Air Force captain will start his role as a board member of the Providence, Rhode Island-based conglomerate on Jan. 1. He previously led Ray...
IBM has agreed to acquire information technology modernization and digital transformation services provider, Octo, from Arlington Capital Partners in a deal advised by Baird. The acquisition, which marks IBM’s eighth this year, is anticipated to augment the organization’s digital transformation capabilities in defense, health and civil...
When Vectrus and The Vertex Company completed their merger to form V2X in July, the enterprise’s projected pro forma revenue was approximately $3.4 billion. As the year comes to a close, V2X now has a combined backlog of over $12 billion, which is three and a half times more than early estimates anticipated. Leading the merged entity’s...
Scott Goldstein, head of advanced missions at Anduril Industries, has assumed additional responsibilities as chief scientist at the defense technology startup, GovCon Wire has learned. Goldstein, a U.S. Air Force Reserve major general, leads Anduril’s technical development initiatives for the company’s government partners. He brings to the dual-...
David Huisenga, former president and CEO of Klas Government, has joined Sigma Defense Systems as chief strategy officer. He will report to Sigma Defense CEO Matt Jones as he oversees the company’s go-to-market strategies for Joint All-Domain Command and Control, DevSecOps and command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, survei...
Air Products and Chemicals will supply 33 million liters of liquid helium and lease six proprietary liquid helium pumps to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida under a potential $1.07 billion contract. NASA will use the commodity to support the International Space Station program, the Space Launch System and other projects at the Kennedy Spa...
NASA has started soliciting information on potential vendors that could meet the requirements of the third iteration of the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract. The agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston expects SMAEC III to be a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of safety mis...
Four companies have won positions on a U.S. Navy blanket purchase agreement to compete for up to $52 million in command and control processor orders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. Each contractor is eligible to manufacture as many as 72 C2P systems for the service branch under the firm-fixed-price BPA, the Department of...
