Chugach Government Solutions has acquired information technology company Vector Planning & Services Inc. to grow CGS’ technical service offerings and presence in the government market. VPSI will operate as a CGS subsidiary and continue to be led by Greg Hammond, who will serve as president, CGS said Wednesday. San Diego-based VPSI provides...
Photo Contributor: Tsuguliev/Shutterstock The defense industry is one of the world’s largest and most competitive industries. The U.S. federal government agencies under the Department of Defense are actively procuring defense products and upgrading existing systems with the latest technology to strengthen the nation’s military fo...
Kathleen King, a 24-year Day & Zimmermann veteran, has assumed duties as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at the Philadelphia-based engineering and construction firm. She succeeds Joseph Ritzel, who officially retired Saturday after a 40-year career with the company and is helping facilitate a smooth transition as a p...
Reston, Virginia-based federal contractor Core4ce has acquired information technology security firm PatchAdvisor for an undisclosed sum, GovCon Wire has learned. Core4ce said Monday it will operate PatchAdvisor as a subsidiary and expects to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity offerings with the addition of the acquired company’s penetration tes...
The U.S. government’s technology pipeline can be bound up in years of regulations, requirements and confirmation. In the military specifically, the process of developing, prototyping, testing and delivering a tool to the warfighter can take years. It has left defense components scrambling for new sources of innovation, striving to speed the proces...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a potential one-year, $650.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the production and delivery of 15 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band ship sets. The Department of Defense said Thursday 11 of the lot 3 low-rate initial production NGJ-MB ship sets will go to the Navy and the rest...
The DSC-EMI Maintenance Solutions joint venture has secured a potential eight-year, $246.8 million contract to support operations at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command acted as the contracting activity and received 10 offers for the fixed-price-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
In light of recent advancements in autonomous technologies, the Department of Defense has made tremendous efforts to understand the role of these tools in warfighting operations and fully harness the benefits autonomy can provide. When implementing these technologies, cultivating a relationship between human operators and new technology is cruc...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has booked a potential five-year, $94 million contract to help the U.S. Cyber Command develop command, control, communications and computer systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee award covers capabilities development support to CYBERCOM’s J6 C4 Systems and Chief Information Officer Directorate, Parsons said Tuesday. CYBERCOM prev...
Aaron Weis, a four-time Wash100 Award recipient who most recently served as chief information officer at the Department of the Navy, has been named managing director of technology at Google’s public sector arm. He will oversee the unit’s tech strategy for the Google Cloud Platform and manage a team of public sector technologists that will...
