The U.S. Air Force has indicated its intent to award Boeing (NYSE: BA) a sole-source contract to study and analyze the E-7A Wedgetail aircraft configuration as the branch looks to replace its current E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system. A special notice posted on SAM.gov says that the government is seeking additional information about...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected 11 companies to help the service branch address munition-related public health and environmental risks through a potential $1.14 billion contract. Contractors will compete to provide support services to the Military Munitions Response Program, the Department of Defense said Friday. USACE received 13 bids...
The federal business of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has promoted John McNiff from chief of staff to a vice president position, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. In his new capacity, McNiff will oversee the delivery of software and consulting services, including the Azure cloud portfolio, to national security customers for both enterprise and mission ap...
The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking information on small businesses that could help meet the information technology services requirements of the Department of Defense’s office of inspector general. DISA is looking for a defense partner that will work with DOD’s OIG personnel to oversee its portfolio of IT systems and provide tactic...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. Previously, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the major improvements that government contractors and their respective organizations have m...
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company is working to help customers meet their mission requirements and priorities by making investments to deliver cloud capabilities to the edge in support of mission operators. Wagner wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) will lead an industry team to pursue a potential five-year contract to help the U.S. Air Force modernize a system that integrates third-party software applications to support joint air forces’ command and control operations. The Air Operations Center – Weapons System enables the service to perform intelligence, surveillance a...
The U.S. Navy is soliciting a proposal from General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business for a five-year, follow on contract that covers hardware and engineering services for AN/USC-61(C) digital modular radio systems. According to its SAM.gov notice, the service branch seeks to procure four-channel and two-channel DMRs as well as Hig...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has acquired Advanced Solutions Inc., a Colorado-based space software company, as part of efforts to further build up its space systems business. Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab said Tuesday it paid $40 million for ASI and will potentially make an additional payment of $5.5 million performance earnout based on r...
Brian Thompson, formerly a senior vice president and operations manager of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been appointed VP and general manager of Peraton‘s intelligence mission solutions unit, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. He started his career at SAIC in 1994 and joined Leidos when the two organizations’ separation process...
