TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2021 — Cognosante will work over a potential 10-year period to implement and maintain Enterprise Cloud Fax services across the Department of Veterans Affairs under a $110 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 16. Erick Peters, chief technology officer at Cognosante, said the company’s engineering, develop...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $49.06 million U.S. Navy contract to design and develop an F-35 aircraft variant for an unnamed foreign military sales customer. The company will perform engineering work and other related efforts as part of the five-year project, the Department of Defense said Monday. Seventy-seven percent of contractor ac...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will continue to help the U.S. Army install turbine engines on AH-64E Apache military helicopters under a five-year, $239.6 million contract. The service branch obligated $18 million at the time of award for Apache Improved Turbine Engine Integration Phase II work using fiscal 2021 and 2022 research, development, test and evaluatio...
The Potomac Officers Club hosted its Air Force IT Modernization and Digital Transformation Forum last Wednesday which joined elite U.S. Air Force and private sector leaders in spirited discussion on the critical modernization initiatives driving the Air Force’s current priorities, strategies and focus areas as the ongoing digitization of...
NowVertical Group has agreed to purchase Allegient Defense as part of efforts to further broaden its footprint in the U.S. public sector. Allegient Defense provides systems engineering and technical services in the areas of data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and autonomy, unmanned aerial vehicles, directed energy and next-gener...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a 10-year, $329.3 million contract to help the U.S. Space Force engineer operational Global Positioning System Block IIF satellites. The company will perform engineering work to support on-orbit operations of the constellation used to transmit navigation data to military and civilian users worldwide, the Department of D...
Bill Monet, president and CEO of Akima, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership in driving the company’s revenue growth by focusing on customer satisfaction, significant contract wins, and top-notch executive appointments. “Skilled in the strategic expansi...
The Potomac Officers Club’s Air Force IT Modernization and Digital Transformation Forum on Wednesday brought together prominent U.S. Air Force and industry officials to discuss the service branch’s crucial modernization initiatives including transitioning legacy infrastructures, enhancing interoperability and bolstering cybersecurity to match t...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $41.2 million contract to produce and test an unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded project. The company will help DARPA build a full-scale long-endurance UUV system under the cost-plus-fixed-fee Manta Ray Phase 2 contract, the Depart...
Anand Eswaran, a former executive at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined data management company Veeam Software as CEO. He succeeds William Largent, who has led Veenam since early 2020 and stepped down from the chief executive post to focus on his duties as board chairman, Veeam said Thursday. Eswaran most recently served as president and...
