The White House has released a national security memorandum to improve the cybersecurity posture of critical infrastructure. The memo announces the establishment of the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to facilitate the deployment of technologies meant to provide threat detection and visibility and cyber response capabilities in o...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $482.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture lot 35 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles for domestic and international defense customers. The award exercises pre-priced options on an existing contract for the production of AMRAAMs, telemetry systems and spares, the...
Fourteen companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $2.41 billion contract to help the U.S. Army operate, modernize and secure a network of government-controlled facilities for hosting large-scale military cyber mission force events. Contractors will compete for individual orders to provide event planning and execution, site security, informat...
Larry Prior, an operating executive for The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) and a five-time Wash100 Award recipient, will formally join the board of QinetiQ Group on Aug. 2 as an independent non-executive director. Neil Johnson, chairman of Qinetiq, said in statement Tuesday that Prior will bring to the company’s board his professional experience i...
Kimberly Lebak, an executive in Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division, has been named as head of an HII and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) joint venture that performs cleanup work at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. HII said Tuesday that Lebak will oversee the $1.4 ...
Robert Silverman, an executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton, was recently presented his first Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to BAH headquarters. For his 2021 Wash100 Award, Silverman was recognized for his leadership an...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services arm has received a potential six-year, $729 million contract from the U.S. Army to consolidate enterprise resource planning systems into a single model to improve readiness and efficiency. Accenture Federal Services will provide the Army Shared Services Center with Agile development, organizational change m...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has secured a one-year contract renewal from the Department of Health and Human Services to support data management software used to monitor the government’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration activities nationwide. HHS enlisted the help of Palantir in mid-2020 to develop and implement the Tiber...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NSYE: RTX) a $212.05 million sole-source delivery order to provide fighter aircraft engines to Morocco to fulfill a foreign military sales requirement. The order is for F100-PW-229 install engines, manufactured by Raytheon’s Pratt & Whitney business, as part of an indefinite-delivery/in...
Joshua Marcuse, head of Strategy and Innovation for Google’s global public sector business, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), on Tuesday during a visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is an annual honor given to the elite members of the GovCon...
