Iron EagleX, a veteran-owned defense contractor, has secured a potential 10-year, $430 million other transaction agreement to provide technical development support services to U.S. Special Operations Command. The award covers products, services, research and development and production support to help ensure that USSOCOM’s software and tools meet i...
Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business has received a pair of contracts worth $3.14 billion combined to manufacture a total of 19 KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force and Israel. USAF ordered 15 tankers along with data, subscriptions and licenses under a $2.2 billion lot eight production contract that will...
James Cassella, a former DynCorp International executive, has been named senior vice president and chief revenue officer at Solon, Ohio-based military equipment supplier HDT Global. He comes to HDT with more than 25 years of corporate growth strategy and business development experience, the company said Tuesday. Cassella most recently held BD functi...
Exiger, a software-as-a-service supply chain risk management company, has purchased Supply Dynamics for an undisclosed sum to combine their products to develop an end-to-end supply chain visibility and risk management capability through a single cloud-based enterprise platform. Exiger said Tuesday it will integrate SDX, PAC and ExplorerRX products o...
As space continues its transformation from a peaceful domain to one defined by satellite proliferation, rising tensions and technological advancements, U.S. space leaders are learning how to navigate classification barriers and balance risk with reward while exploring how to best leverage commercial innovations in a constantly evolving environment. ...
The U.S. Army is currently undergoing what Lt. Gen. Laura Potter calls, “the most significant intel modernization in Army intelligence history,” a wave of efforts to remake and galvanize the service branch by 2030. These activities include a focus on sensor technologies, which, according to Potter, who serves as deputy chief of staff for G2...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer for Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said government agencies looking to accelerate information technology modernization while advancing cybersecurity and collaboration and seeking to leverage analytical capabilities should understand the role of cloud technology in such efforts. “There is widesp...
Mike McGovern, vice president of business development with Day & Zimmermann Government Services, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He talked about joining D&Z a year ago, his focus areas and the four pillars that extend to the company’s government services business and growth strategy. The Q&A...
Mick Fox, chief operating officer of Technomile, has provided his latest feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Tuesday. In his concluding article on the Federal Contract Management Maturity Model, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided his insights into how organizations are evolving to the Future-Enabling level of matur...
In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucrati...
