The U.S. Army has awarded Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense business $106.3 million in contract funds to build 416 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles. Oshkosh Defense will also use the money to produce 832 installed and packaged kits as part of a modification to a previously awarded contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under the modified...
PAE has purchased Silver Spring, Maryland-based disaster response services provider Macfadden & Associates for an undisclosed sum. œMacfadden will expand PAE™s customer reach, building upon the relationship PAE established with [the U.S. Agency for International Development] when PAE supported their response to the Ebola outbreak in 20...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrYzVMGhh8 Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment fire Mk-19 machine guns from a defilade position and observe the target area with Unmanned Aircraft Systems at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 25, 2018. The unit participated in the training to improve their tactical abilities, increase proficiency ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRmJw5tjN8A The Weekly Wire Rundown is a weekly video blog from the Office of the Chief of Naval Personnel, highlighting the top stories affecting Sailors and their families. The video compliments the print edition of the @USNPeople Weekly Wire, which you can subscribe to by e-mailing usnpeople.fct@navy.mil. It can al...
Weekly Roundup January 26 – February 2, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes The GovCon “Popular Vote” is Rocked Craig Abod, Paul Smith, Stu Shea, Bill Rowan, & Larry Prior Among Early Leaders Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO Last week, Executive Mosaic announced its 5th annual list of ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has signed a deal with Boston Properties to transfer its headquarters to a new office building in Reston Town Center in Virginia as part of plans to consolidate operations from two buildings into one facility. Leidos said Tuesday construction work on the new HQ will start by spring of 2018 and that...
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a potential $60 million task order to provide enterprise-level program management services to the Customs and Border Protection‘s office of information technology. ACT I said Thursday the order covers finance, acquisition, wireless systems support, asset management, investm...
Andover, Massachusetts-based Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has wrapped up its $180 million cash purchase of Fremont, California-based ruggedized computing products manufacturer Themis Computer. Mercury first announced the deal in December and the company said Thursday it financed the transaction with funds under its existing revolvin...
Alan Dietrich, formerly deputy group manager for Alion Science and Technology™s digital solutions group, has been appointed senior vice president and manager of the firm™s rapid solutions group. Dietrich will oversee the McLean, Virginia-based technology services contractor™s systems integration and engineering operations as well...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a two-year, $195 million contract modification to produce additional tail kits for the service branch’s Joint Direct Attack Munitions. The modification will increase the cumulative face value of a previously awarded JDAM tail kit production contract to nearly $927.5 mill...
