Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will provide the U.S. Navy and several foreign military sale customers with guided missile assemblies as well as related equipment and spares to meet the full-rate production requirements of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile Block 2 program for fiscal years 2021 to 2023. Deliveries will be made under a $397.7 million f...
Dan Klein, a corporate development executive, has assumed the position of vice president of public sector program management at Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), GovCon Wire has learned. He reports to Zain Ahmed, senior VP of Lumen’s public sector, through the company’s office in Herndon, Virginia. “Dan is a results-driven software and services...
Matt Veldhuis, a 22-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) as director of business development within the intelligence and space unit. He will oversee requirements and capabilities related to space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in his new position, according to a LinkedIn post publis...
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...
The Defense Information Systems Agency and Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) are collaborating to launch a cloud-based telephony infrastructure in an effort to provide Department of Defense employees with virtual phone access via a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) business communication platform. Lumen was awarded a $221 million contract to deploy and operate...
Four companies have won positions on a one-year, $803 million Defense Logistics Agency contract to supply nonprescription rapid antigen test kits for COVID-19 to the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Defense on Tuesday listed Access Bio, iHealth Labs, Orasure Technologies and Quidel as holding spots on the firm-fixed-price, ...
The two main concepts on which the U.S. Army’s cyber team is concentrated in order to protect its information are time and scale. Responding to potential threats in “machine time” in order to diminish the blast radius of a harmful event is crucial, as is executing cybersecurity that matches the breadth of resources in need of...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) reported Tuesday that the space and intelligence work-related contracts it booked for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 reached an estimated $950 million. The contract awards include projects in space systems, intelligence, joint all-domain command and control as well as model-based systems e...
Over the last eight-plus years, Bill Webner has helped information technology services and consulting company Capgemini better serve federal customers in the national security, defense, civil and health sectors. Through his work as vice president of the organization’s Government Solutions arm, Webner has overseen digital transformation e...
Cybersecurity platforms provider Cycurion has agreed to merge with blank check company Western Acquisition Ventures (Nasdaq: WAVS) in a transaction that would take the former public and give the combined entity a total pro forma equity value of about $271.63 million. The boards of directors of Cycurion and Western have unanimously approved the deal ...
