Essex Management and four other companies will collaborate to bring information technology services to the National Institutes of Health’s cancer research organization through a blanket purchase agreement valued at $1.70 billion over five years. The BPA serves as a procurement vehicle for the National Cancer Institute to address IT requirement...
The Department of Defense’s fiscal year 2023 budget request includes the largest ever increase in spending for research and development. The $130.1 billion investment request is more than 9.5 percent over the fiscal year 2022 enacted level, and it represents a major milestone in the DOD’s modernization and innovation efforts. To find out more ab...
Thirty veterans of the government, industry and academia to serve on a federal advisory committee that offers strategic and policy recommendations to the National Space Council. Lester Lyles, a retired U.S. Air Force general and an independent consultant, was selected to chair the NSpC Users Advisory Group, the White House said Friday. Vice Presiden...
Jeff Showalter, chief development officer at technical consulting firm John H. Northrop & Associates, will join HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division to serve as its vice president of operations, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive has over 25 years of experience in providing professional services as a business consulta...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 92 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract to come up with innovative approaches to advance the development of multidomain systems. The Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the contracting activity and received 94 proposals for the indefinite-delivery/i...
The U.S. Air Force has started to seek industry feedback as the service plans to conduct another on-ramp process for a potential 10-year, $46 billion contract vehicle for weapons, digital and model-based systems engineering, Agile processes, open systems architecture and enterprise analytics. The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center’s armam...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to buy government technology services provider Octo from Arlington Capital Partners in a move to complement Big Blue’s IT and digital transformation offerings for the federal sector. Baird served as financial adviser to Arlington and Octo on the transaction. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and all the...
David Erickson, senior director of solutions architecture at Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), said open source technologies enable government agencies to control and query their data to glean insights quickly and speed up the decision-making process. “The real power of open source technologies was revealed when they cracked the code on being highly powered, ...
When Vectrus and The Vertex Company completed their merger to form V2X in July, the enterprise’s projected pro forma revenue was approximately $3.4 billion. As the year comes to a close, V2X now has a combined backlog of over $12 billion, which is three and a half times more than early estimates anticipated. Leading the merged entity’s...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has established a wholly owned subsidiary to offer spacecraft manufacturing, space systems capabilities and launch services to defense and intelligence community clients. Rocket Lab National Security will be based in the U.S. and will build on its parent company’s performance delivering separation systems, space solar...
