The Senate has confirmed Heidi Shyu‘s nomination to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering, a role first held by Michael Griffin since the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act elevated it at undersecretary level. As USD(R&E), Shyu will be responsible for setting the strategy for D...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a $90.2 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to perform tests and related activities to support the transition of a guidance electronic unit to production as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. Under the award, Raytheon Missiles...
Ranil Dassanayaka, vice president of architecture and engineering for government, education and health care sector at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies should adopt a more holistic approach to managing multiple cloud environments to enhance operational efficiency, control costs, accelerate service delivery and improve security. “Managem...
Ronda Sanborn, former director of program operations at System High Corp., has been promoted as vice president of special programs at the Chantilly Virginia-based protection and security engineering services provider. She will oversee System High’s special access program portfolio and brings more than three decades of public and private sector...
Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has secured a $90 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue providing environmental architect-engineering services in support of the sites within the area of responsibility of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic. The award raises the maximum value of the existing indefinite-delivery/...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected six companies to compete for construction and engineering task orders to support the U.S. government’s emergency response missions worldwide under a potential $5 billion multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Contractors will provide supervision services a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 16, 2021 — Serco Group’s North American division will provide engineering and technical services under a potential $400 million multiple-award re-compete contract from the U.S. Navy to support aviation command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance electronic systems. Dav...
Leonardo DRS‘ land electronics business has secured a $105 million delivery order to supply additional mission common computing systems to the U.S. Army as part of the service branch’s combat vehicle and command post modernization efforts. This order is the third for Leonardo DRS under the Mounted Family of Computer Systems II contract, ...
Intrepid Solutions and Services, a portfolio company of Bluestone Investment Partners, has acquired Darkblade Systems for an undisclosed sum to expand technology products and service offerings for the U.S. Intelligence Community in the areas of counter unmanned aircraft systems, cybersecurity and electronic warfare. Winchester, Virginia-based Darkbl...
Ensco has elevated company veterans Kevin Pruett and Jeffrey Stevens to senior vice president roles following the creation of two new business groups focused on supporting aerospace and engineering and surface transportation initiatives of government, commercial and international customers. Boris Nejikovsky, president of Ensco, said in a statement p...
