NASA has awarded nine companies positions on a potential 10-year, $2.6B contract to deliver scientific instruments and other payloads to the Moon. Contractors will compete for payload integration, operations and other delivery support services under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, NASA said Friday. The awardees are: Astrobotic T...
Jason Albanese, formerly vice president of business development for operations and logistics solutions at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been appointed senior VP of business development within the company’s health group. He will be responsible for overseeing the unit’s business strategy, establishing strategic partnerships and mainta...
On Thursday, Nov. 1st, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2018 Multi-Domain Battlefield Forum, where keynote speaker Brig. Gen. Chance Saltzman, director of current operations, U.S. Air Force, discussed the challenges and strategic opportunities facing multi-domain operations. An expert pa...
Karoom Brown, a more than 17-year government and commercial health care market veteran, has been named chief global strategy, products and growth officer at Optum™s federal health services unit, GovCon Wire has learned. He will lead OptumServe‘s efforts to identify new business opportunities and expand technology offerings ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) joint venture United Launch Alliance has received a potential $152.4M contract to produce a heavy rocket for the National Reconnaissance Office‘s Launch Mission One. The Defense Department said Wednesday ULA will help the agency launch the mission with...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a final solicitation for the potential 10-year, $6.52B Global Solutions Management-Operations follow-on contract for telecommunications and information technology services, Bloomberg Government reported Monday. GSM-O II is a single-award contract that covers IT support for the Department of Defense...
Jackie Fendrock, who joined ECS in 2011, has been promoted to vice president of business development and operations at the Fairfax, Va.-based information technology services provider. She will be responsible for aligning ECS’ strategy with government market opportunities as well as manage its customer, partner and industry relationsh...
Adam Rudo, a 13-year veteran of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has joined ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) as senior vice president and general manager of the Herndon, Va.-based company’s security solutions business. He will oversee the unit’s work with the U.S. intelligence community and succeeds Paul Gen...
Gerry Fasano, an executive vice president and chief of business development and strategy at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been named president of the company™s defense group in a move that takes effect Oct. 1, Inside Defense reported Wednesday. An internal memo obtained by the publication says the appointment is part of Leidos™ reorganization e...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded contracts to seven companies and a nonprofit organization to further develop their respective hypersonic weapon concepts. MDA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday contractors will work on their proposed kinetic and non-kinetic hypersonic glide and terminal defense weapon systems through the contracts wor...
