Pat Blevins, formerly senior vice president of strategic growth at InfoZen, has been named vice president of the solutions engineering organization at General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) information technology business unit. Blevins will lead the organization that works to deliver platforms to industry and government clients in the areas of cyber...
SCRA Applied R&D has been awarded a potential five-year, $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to operate the U.S. Navy™s metalworking center in collaboration with engineering firm EWI. SCRA will manage the Navy Manufacturing Technologies Center of Excellence and EWI will assist in the center’s project developme...
The U.S. Army has awarded 17 companies positions on the potential five-year, $5 billion Information Technology Enterprise Solutions “ 3 Hardware contract vehicle. The multiple-award contract covers commercial software, hardware and related enterprise-level, incidental support services for the service branch, Defense Department and other federal...
Diane Murray, a principal at Deloitte Consulting and an 18-year information technology consulting veteran, has been named leader of Deloitte‘s federal civilian sector. She succeeds Dan Helfrich, who has taken a new role as head of the federal practice at the professional services company, Deloitte said Monday. “[Murra...
SupplyCore has received a $97 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide water purification systems to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. The contract is for the supply, distribution and storage of water purification systems for the service branches, the Defense Department said Monday. The contract includes a four-year base peri...
The First Responder Network Authority has extended the deadline for interested vendors to submit their final bids on the agency’s national public-safety broadband network project from April 29 to May 13. FirstNet said Friday it also released a batch of responses to the more than 400 questions that the agency has received from in...
The GovCon Index climbed significantly today closing at 72.232 up 1.114 percent, pulling itself out of correction. All three markets — the Dow Jones Industrial, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite — all showed robust gains approaching 1.50 percent, with WTI crude oil closing up 6.21 percent to $31.48. As reported by CNBC, Honeywell...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) a potential six-year, $37 million contract to provide logistics and repair services for the military branch’s subscale aerial target system. Kratos said Monday it will also supply consumable and peculiar reparable spares for BQM-167A fligh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” TeleCommunication Systems (Nasdaq: TSYS) has expanded the coverage of its text-to-911 public safety messaging service to at least 700 answering points across 38 U.S. states and territories, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. TCS said Thursday it targets 100 million wireless subscribers to the ser...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will likely hold the prime role in a teaming agreement with CAE (NYSE: CAE) and Alenia Aermacchi to pursue the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X pilot trainer contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Defense News reported Tuesday Raytheon will replace General Dynamics (NYSE...
