James Hannah, formerly chief information officer and vice president of enterprise information technology services at General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) IT arm, took on a new role as global CIO of the GDIT business, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. He succeeds Kristie Grinnell, who stepped down from her post to pursue a new opportunity in...
The U.S. Air Force is seeking proposals for the first on-ramp of a multi-year engineering and analytics support contract managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AF Base. According to the request for proposals posted Wednesday on SAM.gov, AFLCMC is conducting a full and open competition as the service looks to...
Godspeed Capital Management has purchased Ascent Engineering Group for an undisclosed amount as part of an effort to expand its newly formed engineering and consulting business that serves public and private sector customers. Ascent will bring its expertise in designing mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems to boost the capabilities of Godspee...
Patrick Murphy, president and CEO of Axient, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He discussed the company rebranding and how the move supports the innovation efforts of Axient and the mission of its customers. Murphy also talked about Axient’s strategic organization, advancement in digital...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential two-year, $86.6 million task order from the U.S. Navy to integrate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems on military vehicles. The company will perform C4ISR production, engineering and fielding work for the lan...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics segment a $584.8 million contract modification to fund system integration engineering activities related to new F-35 electronic warfare and countermeasure equipment. The award will support development work on the ASQ-239 electronic warfare suite for U.S. military customers and...
Six small businesses have won spots on a five-year, $499 million contract to support construction projects within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command‘s Hawaii area of responsibility. NAVFAC received 14 proposals for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive bidding process on SAM.gov and wi...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has agreed to acquire Planetary Systems Corp. in a cash-and-stock transaction to further build up its space systems business and end-to-end offerings across launch and space hardware markets. Rocket Lab said Monday it agreed to pay $42 million in cash and 1,720,841 in shares of common stock to buy PSC...
Lew Messing, vice president of programs at Science Applications International Corp., will lead a panel discussion at a Nov. 17 virtual event about information technology modernization efforts within the defense and intelligence sectors. In his current capacity, Messing supports U.S. intelligence community customers such as the Office of the Director...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Serco’s U.S. subsidiary have secured separate contracts to provide engineering support, test, product development and ship and systems integration services for the U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems. SAIC will deliver services to PEO IWS 1.0 and 9.0 under a p...
