Joseph Tofalo, former vice president for program integration and assessment at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), has taken on a new role at the company as VP for assessments and advanced technology....
The CEOs of eight defense contractors wrote separate letters to the White House and the Department of Defense saying that the money sourced from DoD’s budget to help companies retain highly skilled employees during the COVID-19 pandemic should be replaced with new funds to prevent military modernization programs from being jeopardized, Reuters rep...
Perspecta Names Mac Curtis as Chairman of Board of Directors; Mike Lawrie Quoted Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Perspecta as well as a six-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been appointed the company’s chairman August 5, 2020, Perspecta announced on Wednesday. “On behalf of Perspecta and the board, I want to thank Mike Lawrie for his ...
Detail design work has now kicked off on the FFG(X) guided-missile frigate program after the Navy received no protests over its decision to award the potential 15-year, $5.6B design and construction contract to a Wisconsin-based subsidiary of Fincantieri, USNI News reported Wednesday....
Leidos Completes $1B Purchase of L3Harris’ Security Detection, Automation Businesses; Roger Krone Quoted Leidos has finalized its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ security detection and automation businesses for approximately $1 billion in cash, Leidos said Monday. The company also announced that Jim Moos, president of Leidos’ civil gr...
The U.S. Navy is set to award an initial $1.2B contract for the contruction of its next-generation small multimission frigate in an initiative to accelerate a shipbuilding program that was supposed to commence later this year, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday....
James Geurts, acquisition chief at the U.S. Navy and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the service has provided defense contractors $600M in payments it previously put on hold to ensure performance on awarded contracts, Reuters reported Tuesday....
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has won a potential five-year, $64.1M contract from the U.S. Air Force to support operational training activities of Air National Guard. The company will help ANG manage technical and programmatic functions at the Distributed Training Operations Center in Des Moines, Iowa, the Department of Defense said F...
Two joint ventures and five independent firms have secured $90M in contract funds to build, repair and renovate general buildings within Naval Facilities Engineering Command's southwest area of operations....
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has secured a potential seven-year, $1.51B contract modification to design and build a second vessel under the U.S. Navy's LPD-17 Flight II amphibious ship program....
