Veronica Daigle, former assistant secretary for readiness at the Department of Defense, has joined venture capital firm Red Cell Partners as a partner and president of the national security practice. She will oversee the development and implementation of the McLean, Virginia-based firm’s national security strategy and partner with entrepreneur...
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) subsidiary Hughes Network Systems will continue to deploy Open Radio Access Network-based private 5G networks at military installations in Hawaii and Washington State through 2025 under a contract extension awarded by the Department of Defense. The contract extension awarded by DOD’s Office of the Undersecretary for Researc...
An investment affiliate of private equity firm J.F. Lehman and Co. has closed its acquisition of Cypress, California-based Mission Microwave Technologies for an undisclosed sum to support the latter’s product development efforts and growth initiatives in government and commercial markets. Established in 2014, Mission provides solid-state power...
Scott Helmore, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has been named senior vice president of emerging technologies at Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered global systems integrator Tribalco. He will oversee the development of multidomain products and services, including secure communications, artificial intelligence, edge computing and position, navigation and t...
Bastion Technologies has secured a five-year, $125.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide environmental, safety, health and mission assurance services to NASA’s Glenn Research Center and its remote campus in Sandusky, Ohio. The company will work with subcontractors Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Herndon Solutions Group ...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to recognize Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology, with the 2024 Wash100 Award for driving IT investments in the government contracting sector and leading business development and growth initiatives for GDIT. Vote for Gilliland as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popul...
Last month, Department of the Air Force leaders announced a four-pronged plan to reshape the DAF to stay competitive in modern great power competition. These categories – develop people, generate readiness, project power and develop integrated capabilities – form a holistic approach to optimizing the Air Force and Space Force. Each of these ar...
The U.S. Army is currently working to implement its Unified Data Reference Architecture, which is designed to join a data mesh and data fabric in a way that would allow users to easily access data products across different formats and locations. According to Deputy Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software Jennifer Swanson, who sp...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has disclosed a nonbinding proposal to acquire spacecraft manufacturer Terran Orbital (NYSE: LLAP) for more than $500 million, SpaceNews reported Friday. The defense contractor offered to pay $1 in cash for each share of Terran Orbital’s outstanding common stock, buy the company’s outstanding warrants for over...
Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, a limited liability company formed by BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), Amentum and Fluor (NYSE: FLR), has won a 10-year, $45 billion contract from the Department of Energy to manage tank waste at Hanford Site in Washington state. The award marks the second time H2C won the Hanford Integrated Tank...
