Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has secured a potential $338.1 million contract to manufacture additional subscale aerial targets for use in the U.S. Air Force’s weapons-release training exercises. The sole-source contract is for lots 17 to 21 AFSAT production, logistics and out-of-warranty repair services, the Departmen...
Omar Balkissoon, executive chairman of Geospark Analytics, will assume additional role as CEO while John Goolgasian, former chief operating officer, will serve as president and chief growth officer as part of the company’s recently announced leadership changes. Balkissoon’s appointment and Goolgasian’s promotion are meant to contin...
Livonia, Michigan-based small business InfoPoint has received a potential $61.19 million contract from Washington Headquarters Services to provide the Defense Security Cooperation Agency with enterprise application development and support services. The contractor will support DSCA Information Management and Technology, a directorate that handles a p...
The State Department has approved a proposed $134 million foreign military sales agreement for follow-on technical support to Japan’s destroyer ships that carry the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Aegis Combat System. A Defense Security Cooperation Agency notice posted Wednesday says the Japanese government asked to procure Aegis Class Destr...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) reported second quarter revenue of $879 million, a 10 percent decline from the same period in 2020 despite large contract wins for the April-June period. The Centreville, Virginia-based contractor attributed a 56 percent decline in operating income for the quarter to reserves taken on federal solutions and critical infrastructure...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has launched a new initiative to drive the development and execution of cyber defense operations plans in partnership with the private sector, federal interagency and state, local, tribal, territorial government stakeholders. The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative is aimed at reducing cyber inciden...
Robotic process automation software provider UiPath has unveiled a seven-member advisory board that will aim to help the company explore and identify opportunities to automate systems for government customers. New York-based UiPath said Wednesday it expects to gain insight from its public sector advisory board on government missions, technology chal...
The State Department has approved Taiwan’s request to buy medium self-propelled howitzer systems, manufactured by BAE Systems, and associated equipment from the U.S. government through a potential $750 million foreign military sales transaction. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. asked to procure 40 155mm M109A6...
Dana Barnes, senior vice president of the Public Sector with Palo Alto Networks, was presented his first Wash100 Award, the most respected and valued award in all of government contracting (GovCon), during a recent visit to the company’s headquarters in Reston, VA by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award....
GovCon Wire Events hosted its latest event on Wednesday to share the key trends impacting the government contractors in our sector and how to mature the capture process to grow a qualified pipeline and improve win rate during A Blueprint for a Modern, Data-Driven Approach to Capture Management Webinar. With Technomile’s Chief Operating Officer Mic...
