Don Graves, deputy secretary at the Department of Commerce, met with CEOs of nine space situational awareness companies to seek ideas on how industry could help build and implement a Traffic Coordination System for Space, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The free space traffic management service is one of the government’s initiatives outsi...

Thomas Lennon, formerly a group vice president at KBR (NYSE: KBR), has been elevated to senior VP of the company’s National Security Solutions business. He will be responsible for leading a team that aims to help customers address national security priorities and prepare for emerging challenges, according to his LinkedIn profile. Len...

Mark Kavanaugh, former vice president of the defense systems engineering group at KBR’s (NYSE: KBR) Government Solutions business, has been promoted to senior VP, according to his LinkedIn post published Wednesday. The SVP will lead a group of 3,500 specialists in efforts to deliver scientific, engineering and technical services to the D...

KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a $156.7 million task order to update the U.S. Army’s fleet of UH-60V Black Hawk helicopters. The company said Monday it will work with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to come up with recommendations and technical platforms for the utility helicopter project office at the Army’s program executive office aviation and...

At Thursday’s 16th annual International Stability Operations Association summit event, KBR’s Tom Lampley concluded his role as ISOA chairman and the organization welcomed Amentum Senior Vice President John Gastright as the next chairman. The event took place at the Hilton Hotel in McLean, Virginia, and hosted hundreds of leaders a...

Top seasoned executives in the government contracting industry including NetImpact Strategies CEO Venkatapathi “PV” Puvvada, KBR Government Solutions President Byron Bright, CACI International President and CEO John Mengucci are scheduled to share insights at the 2022 Government & Defense Conference that will be hosted by Baird on No...

KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a pair of contracts worth a combined $120 million to perform data analysis and modeling work to help the U.S. government evaluate spacecraft system acquisition programs. The awards cover the provision of analytic products and systems engineering services to inform procurement decisions for information technology systems,...

NASA has launched an open and full competition for a potential nine-year, $1.93 billion follow-on contract to provide spaceflight mission support services to Johnson Space Center’s Flight Operations Directorate. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov says the next iteration of NASA’s Integrated Mission Operations Contract will include prep...

U.S. Transportation Command is negotiating a contract modification to enable a joint venture of KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Tier One Relocation to resume transition work on the potential $6.2 billion Global Household Goods Contract.  The move comes after the Court of Federal Claims denied protests of the contract award, USTRANSCOM said Friday. GHC was ...

The U.S. Army plans to compete four Care of Supplies in Storage task orders in support of the Army Prepositioned Stock program among four prime contractors under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V contract, DVIDSHub reported Wednesday. These LOGCAP V contractors are Vectrus, which is being renamed V2X (NYSE: VVX) as a result of its...