The Senate has confirmed Heidi Shyu‘s nomination to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering, a role first held by Michael Griffin since the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act elevated it at undersecretary level. As USD(R&E), Shyu will be responsible for setting the strategy for D...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a $90.2 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to perform tests and related activities to support the transition of a guidance electronic unit to production as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. Under the award, Raytheon Missiles...
Chuck Prow, president and CEO of Vectrus, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a ribbon-cutting ceremony of Vectrus’ new Tysons Corner office last Thursday. Since the inception of the Wash100 Award in 2014, Prow has received the hon...
Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), was presented her 2021 Wash100 Award on Monday by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent office visit. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Gilliland has received the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon). For this year’s Wash...
Six companies have won positions on a $218.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the U.S. Navy’s surface ship programs. Each contractor will receive $100,000 as a guaranteed minimum contract amount and can vie for engineering and technical services, program management and information technology support task orde...
The National Institutes of Health has added 22nd Century Technologies as an awardee on a multiple-award, $3.6 billion contract for support services to the agency’s biomedical research program, according to a notice posted on SAM.gov. Five companies now hold positions on the five-year, indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery Scientific, Operati...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled its plan to acquire Bethesda, Maryland-based BoxBoat Technologies, a consulting company that specializes in DevOps and Kubernetes container orchestration, in a push to further expand Big Blue’s hybrid cloud services business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and IBM said Thursday it expects to close t...
The U.S. Air Force has named 29 additional contractors as awardees on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 7, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and its industry partners will build a ground station for long-range precision targeting under the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node program, ExecutiveBiz reported June 29. The TITAN system will be developed by the Raytheon-led team to provide targetable in...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 2, 2021 — The Australian defense department has received Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) high-resolution 3D data and satellite imagery products as part of multimillion-dollar contract awards to the company, ExecutiveBiz reported June 24. Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar and a...
