A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business will continue manufacturing M10 Booker combat vehicles for the U.S. Army under a $257.6 million contract modification. The service branch ordered 26 additional units of the vehicle formerly called Mobile Protected Firepower for its second low-rate initial production phase, the company said Thursday. General Dyn...
McLean, Virginia-based Xcelerate Solutions has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Tim Conway as a member of the board, Anne-Marie Evans as chief financial officer and Michael Heller as vice president of human resources. Conway, a two-time Wash100 awardee, will bring to Xcelerate’s board his federal contracting industry experience...
Nonprofit organization Silicon Valley Defense Group has named In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, as the most active investor in top defense and national security startups. IQT has invested in 34 companies included in SVDG’s inaugural list of top 100 defense and dual-use technology startups backed by venture capital firms...
David “Heat” Lyons, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Scientific Systems Co. Inc. as vice president of business development. He will bring to the role over three decades of aerospace and defense industry experience as he oversees SSCI’s client base and new markets, the company said Thursday. Lyons, a global strike subjec...
Guided by Secretary Frank Kendall’s Seven Operational Imperatives – space order of battle, operationally focused advanced battle management systems, moving target engagement, tactical air dominance, resilient basing, global strike and readiness to deploy and fight – the U.S. Department of the Air Force is preparing to launch a number...
The U.S. Space Force has released a draft request for proposals to solicit information on potential industry sources that could meet the requirements of a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract to provide advisory and assistance services to help build and sustain weapons systems for Space Systems Command. USSF intends to compete the Hemisphere pro...
Conn Doherty, former vice president of strategic campaigns at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, has been appointed to vice president and general manager roles at Collins Aerospace. Doherty announced his new post Monday on LinkedIn and will be responsible for Collins Aerospace’s battlespace management command and control and autonomy platforms...
The U.S. government is expected to receive an approximately $3 billion purchase request from Israel for 25 F-35 aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, approved a proposal to expand the air force fleet to 75 stealth fighter jets by acquiring a third squadron of the “Adir” F-35 air...
The Government Accountability Office has decided to sustain 98 bid protests filed against the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center’s potential 10-year, $50 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners follow-on contract for IT products and services. CIO-SP4 is a governmentwide acqui...
Ten companies won spots on a potential 10-year, $485 million contract to provide supporting equipment for the KC-46 aircraft fleets of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military customers. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ground-based support equipment will be delivered to U.S. and foreign military operating bases until June ...
