General Dynamics Information Technology landed a $98 million contract modification from the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue providing acquisition, integration, installation, operations and maintenance services for communications systems supporting the U.S. Air Forces Central Command, or USAFCENT, deployed missions. Communications...
Mercury Systems has appointed Ghassan Alaka, a more than two-decade IT executive, as chief information officer. Alaka announced his new role in a LinkedIn post published Monday. He brings to Mercury over 20 years of experience leading global infrastructure, cybersecurity and operations, transforming legacy systems and securing hybrid-cloud environme...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson has presented the 2025 Wash100 Award to David Zolet, CEO of Astrion. The award marks the fifth time that Zolet has been selected as one of the 100 most impactful and influential leaders in government and the government contracting industry. Zolet is a long-time GovCon leader who has held executive...
The Department of State has approved the Egyptian government’s request to purchase the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System. RTX will serve as the principal contractor for the proposed foreign military sale, which is estimated to be valued at $4.67 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday. The weapon system pur...
A Northrop Grumman business has received a potential five-year, $495 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide technical representative engineering support for major defense programs. Hear experts discuss the air and space branches’ latest contracting opportunities, tech advancements and more at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025...
Booz Allen Hamilton, in partnership with L3Harris Technologies, will deliver a prototype of the Advanced Battle Management System Distributed Battle Management Node Phase II Tactical Operations Center-Light for the Department of the Air Force Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management. The work will be perfor...
Granite-Obayashi 2, a joint venture between Granite Construction and Obayashi Corp. has secured a task order valued at $158 million from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to build defense facilities in Guam. The task order, awarded under the Facilities and Infrastructure Multiple Award Construction Contract, involves the Guam Defense System i...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Bowhead Weapons Development Solutions a $99.9 million firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide engineering, operations and sustainment support to the sensitive compartmented information network program of record. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Navy Summit is...
KBR Chief Operating Officer Byron Bright, a six-time Wash100 awardee, will step down from his position, effective July 11. The company said Wednesday Bright transitioned into the COO role in May after KBR announced in January a realignment of its portfolio into two business segments: Mission Technology Solutions, or MTS, and Sustainable Technology S...
Eleven companies have secured spots on a potential $15 billion contract for construction services to the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineering Center. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract calls for design-build and design-bid-build services, the Department of Defense said Monday. The contractors’ work activit...
