The U.S. Air Force has named 55 awardees on a potential 11-year, $46 billion contract to perform work related to model-based systems engineering, weapons and enterprise analytics, digital engineering, Agile processes and open systems architecture. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida received 58 offers for th...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, estimates 4 percent to 7 percent growth in overall second quarter sales among defense primes. His analysis of contractor Q2 results covered Boeing (NYSE: BA), BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), L3Harris Technologies (NY...
JoAnne Dukeshire, a more than two-decade government contracting veteran, has joined ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) to serve as vice president of contracts, the company announced in a LinkedIn post. The executive brings experience in overseeing contracts and subcontracts professionals and advising government contractors across state and local, ...
Deborah Dunie, former executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined the board of directors of Perry, Georgia-based Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO John Wilcox said in a statement published Monday Dunie brings to the company over 30 years of experience serving in the Department of Defens...
Richard Koucheravy, formerly an executive at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined UltiSat to serve as vice president and lead business development activities, drive revenue growth and support presence expansion in emerging markets. The satellite communications company said Thursday Koucheravy most recently served as the senior director of bu...
Mark Baird, a retired Air Force brigadier general, has been named president of Virgin Orbit’s VOX Space subsidiary. He brings to the role over three decades of aerospace experience as VOX Space works to further advance the delivery of launch services in support of customers in the national security community, the company said Tuesday. “Mark...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary will maintain and overhaul the main rotor blade of Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army under a five-year, $116.5 million contract. Army Contracting Command received one bid for the firm-fixed-price contract and will determine work locations and funds upon issuance of each order, the Depart...
The Department of Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office is seeking knowledge-based services for its global mission to develop, field and sustain the next-generation fighter aircraft, according to a solicitation notice posted on SAM.gov. Naval Air Systems Command issued the request for proposals for an indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery cont...
A new McAleese & Associates report noted that BAE Systems posted a 6 percent sales growth and saw its sector profit increase by 27 percent to approximately $1.4 billion during the first six months of 2021 driven by its U.S. electronic systems sector and U.K. air sector. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and...
Investment company Endeavour Capital has acquired Forrest Machining Inc., also known as FMI Aerostructures, which produces structural components for aerospace and defense platforms. Tim Mickael, an aerospace executive with two decades of industry experience, joined FMI Aerostructures as CEO, and all current managers will remain with the company as p...
