Dale Hopper, a former vice president at Amentum and a 21-year U.S. Navy veteran, is joining Virginia-based systems engineering contractor Valkyrie Enterprises as senior VP of sustainment and modernization. He will oversee an integrated business organization that provides communications infrastructure maintenance, maritime modernization and readiness...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 29, 2022 — Valiant Integrated Services will provide two naval air stations with operations and maintenance services over a five-year period in support of their maritime training devices, ExecutiveBiz reported. The U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division Force awarded a $77 million task order to ...
ExecutiveBiz featured Scott Recinos, senior vice president of homeland security market at LMI, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He shared his strategic goals for the coming year including maintaining the company’s support to Department of Homeland Security customers. The Q&A also tackled potential new market...
The United States Space Force has trained an “unblinking eye” on its top pacing challenge and adversary, China, as the U.S. races to maintain space dominance in the increasingly contested and hostile domain, according to Brig. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, the Space Force’s new director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. In recent years,...
The U.S. Army’s Capability Sets were introduced in 2021 in order to lay out a roadmap for maintaining a modern, technologically advanced service branch that will be prepared for any challenges adversaries could bring their way. The Capability Sets are mission protocols designed to be completed and phased out every two years. This effort began wit...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential five-year, $91.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modifications, maintenance and depot-level support for the AN/AQS-20 sonar mine-hunting system and AN/MHP-20 deploy and retrieve platform. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract has a one-year base per...
Ten years ago, the U.S. Army was notorious for being a “deliberate late adopter” of technology. The Army carried a well-known reputation of risk aversion — an approach which often placed the service branch several years behind the power curve. Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo, who was sworn into the role in February, is changing that narrat...
In the most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Tom Afferton, president of Cyber Mission sector at Peraton, to talk about the company’s recent market growth and contract wins. The Q&A also tackled the most critical challenges facing those in the federal sector and how the industry could help address them. Here’s...
AM General has secured a $732.7 million contract modification to manufacture expanded capacity vehicle models of the U.S. Army’s High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. The award would extend the performance period under AM General’s firm-fixed-price requirements contract by two years and four months, according to a notice posted Fri...
Alan Chvotkin, a partner at government contracts law firm Nichols Liu, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. In his latest featured article, GovCon Expert Alan Chvotkin explores the pending legislation regarding the issue of acquisition conflicts of interest. In addition, he also discuss...
