Rolls-Royce has received a $96.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to extend by five months the company’s engine repair and sustainment support for the C-130 military transport aircraft fleet. The indefinite-delivery vehicle requirements contract has a cumulative face value of $1.65 billion, the Department of Defense ...
Bradley Jacobs, former senior vice president of finance at BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary, has joined the board of directors of Ashburn, Virginia-based cybersecurity company Telos (Nasdaq: TLS). Jacobs has worked as an industry consultant on government contract bid protests and an adjunct professor at Rollins College since 2015, according to his...
Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, spoke at length on the “booming” space economy, growing adversarial threats in the space domain and the nation’s most pressing space capability gaps in a closing keynote address during the Space Acquisition Forum, hosted by GovCon Wire Events on Wednesday...
Executive Mosaic’s ninth annual Wash100 award selection was officially announced Wednesday to recognize 100 leaders from the worlds of government, industry and academia who have made noteworthy contributions to their organizations and the government contracting sector. The Wash100 is the premier class of business executives, agency officials a...
Rocky Thurston, former head of Peraton‘s citizen security and public services sector, has been named chief operating officer at Bethesda, Maryland-based digital services provider DMI Thurston brings his more than two decades of industry experience in business development, capture management, merger-and-acquisition areas to a role responsible f...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, has announced the winners of the 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of GovCon to recognize the 100 executives who will impact the sector in the coming year. The 2022 Was...
Shawn Purvis, a more than 25-year defense and intelligence industry veteran and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, will assume the dual role of president and CEO at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm on Feb. 16. She will oversee the operations of QinetiQ US and help the company pursue growth as a provider of defense and security...
GovCon Wire Events on Thursday hosted the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum where distinguished defense agency and private sector leaders talked about technology procurement efforts, infrastructural priorities, modernization strategies and cultural shifts affecting how Defense Department agencies, military service branches and ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Wire Events on Thursday hosted the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum, which gathered leading government agency and private sector officials for an exclusive discussion surrounding the most imperative modernization initiatives and urgent infrastructural needs that are influencing defense agencies’ s...
As the U.S. Space Force enters its third year of operation, its leaders are prioritizing acquisition reform among the key transformational shifts the organization is expected to undergo in its pursuit of innovative technologies, advanced capabilities and more interoperable systems. Gen. Nina Armagno, director of staff for the Space Force, cited ...
