Eight companies have secured contracts worth $22.5M combined to develop, manage and update a set of Open Architecture standards for the U.S. Air Force. The contractors will work as a single entity to create and offer configuration control for Universal Command and Control Interface and Open Mission systems standards, the Department of Defense report...
A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has received a potential seven-year, $1.10B contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to provide life cycle support for MH-6, MH-47 and MH-60 helicopters. Boeing Sikorsky Aircraft Support will support program management, field service represe...
Barbie Bigelow, formerly senior vice president and chief information officer of Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC), has been appointed CIO at engineering, construction and consulting services contractor Black & Veatch. She will oversee Black & Veatch’s digital strategy and information technology group that offers tools and...
John McNiff, a 16-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined ManTech International‘s (Nasdaq: MANT) mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group as senior vice president for business development. He will report to ManTech MCIS President Rick Wagner and will oversee the government information technology contractor’s ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the two-day Reagan National Defense Forum that kicked off Friday in California. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) CEO Marillyn Hewson; Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) CEO Thomas Kennedy; Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security busine...
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 a heavy confi...
