The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $2.5 billion contract to design and construct facilities in Guam and other areas of operations of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific. NAVFAC Pacific received nine proposals for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
Lori Marracino DCS has promoted government contracting industry veterans Lori Marracino and Michelle Nixon to vice president of proposal development and strategic communications and VP of business development, respectively. Marracino will help advance DCS’ growth strategy by overseeing proposal development and strategic communications initiatives,...
David Diaddario, a nearly four-decade defense industry leader, has been appointed president of Hill Technical Solutions, a Huntsville, Alabama-based division of Valkyrie Enterprises, GovCon Wire has learned. He brings to the position 38 years of experience supporting the Department of Defense in technical, business development and management roles. ...
Drew Robbins, vice president of sustainment innovation and operations at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) since June 2019, has transitioned to a new role as VP and deputy of F-35 development. He announced his new position in a LinkedIn post Sunday and will work from the company’s Fort Worth, Texas site. Robbins has held various roles...
Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT) has agreed to acquire secure Duluth, Georgia-based communications platforms provider DataPath for an undisclosed sum to expand the Israeli company’s defense market footprint. Gilat said Thursday it expects the acquisition to conclude in the third quarter of 2023, pending approval from the Committee on Fo...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has secured a five-year, $88.2 million contract to develop a cloud-based information technology platform for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to find and transmit huge amounts of complex data from GEOINT sources. The General Dynamics IT business will provide software development servic...
Joseph Ritzel, senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Day & Zimmermann, will retire from the company on April 1 after four decades of service. Joseph Ritzel His position will be filled by Kathleen King, vice president of corporate development, the engineering and construction firm said Wednesday. Ritzel started his caree...
Executive Mosaic is excited to honor Pat Mungovan, senior vice president of Oracle’s North American government and education business, with his second Wash100 Award in acknowledgment of his leadership in driving Oracle’s continued growth and expanding its presence as a staple provider of cloud services for the public sector. In it...
The private sector is known for its rapid technological innovation process unencumbered by bureaucracy, restrictive requirements or mysterious funding procedures. Unfortunately, these qualities have not typically described the innovation process within the U.S. federal government; but now, public sector leaders are taking a page from the commercial ...
Pratt & Whitney, a business unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has secured a potential $8 billion contract to manufacture engines to power F-35 jets, produced by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), for U.S. and international defense customers. The deal covers 15-16 production lots of up to 518 F135 engines and includes a lot 17 lot...
