Tom Gentile, president and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, and Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, have been elected to serve as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2023. Eric Fanning, a previous Wash100 awardee, will continu...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) reported $40.7 million in revenue during the third quarter of fiscal 2022 and saw its Q3 analytics revenue rise 8 percent driven by the award of a U.S. Army contract for the implementation of the Global Force Information Management system. The Columbia, Maryland-based technology company said Wednesday it ended the quarter wit...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
Veritas Capital to Acquire CAES’ Space Systems Unit; AT&T Public Sector Announces Leadership Changes; Leidos Books $1.5B DOD C5ISR Tech Support Order; Booz Allen Forms Laser Tech-Focused Business; Q&A With Cubic’s Anthony Verna Click to Unmute...
The General Services Administration has released requests for proposals for Historically Underutilized Business Zone and service-disabled veteran-owned small business pools of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. GSA said Friday it will accept proposals through Nov. 4 for SDVOSB and HUBZon...
Bechtel Corporation is an American procurement, project, and construction management firm founded in San Francisco, California, in 1898. The Bechtel group headquarters are in Reston, Virginia, after it relocated to the Washington D.C. area in 2018. It is the largest construction company in the U.S. and offers primary services, including finance, tun...
The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to launch a competition for the third iteration of the Program Management, Administrative, Clerical and Technical Services contract vehicle. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within DHS expects PACTS III to be a total set-aside program for service-disabled veteran-owned small busine...
Seven large companies and two small businesses won spots on a potential five-year, $1.31 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain training systems. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle covers simulator contractor O&M and instructional services, training systems management, product support and o...
John Karabias, vice president of strategic development at Jacobs, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He talked about the upcoming launch of Divergent Solutions, a new operating unit that will be led by Caesar Nieves as executive vice president. Karabias also discussed his strategic goals and the company&#...
