Eight companies have been awarded a potential six-year U.S. Navy contract with a combined value of $986.3 million that provides for services in support of the service branch’s equipment, habitability systems, facilities and fixtures in the East and West Coast areas and outside of the continental U.S. locations. Delphinus Engineering, East Coas...
Bren-Tronics, Inventus Power, Navitas Systems‘ government solutions group and Ultralife Corp. have secured spots on a potential nine-year, $1.25 billion contract for a lightweight wearable battery being developed under the U.S. Army’s Tactical Power Generation Program. The Department of Defense said Wednesday contractors will compete for...
Tina Dolph, president and chief executive officer of Siemens Government Technologies (SGT), was presented her 2021 Wash100 Award, her third time winning the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to SGT. “After more than 18 years with Lockheed Martin, Tina Dolp...
Daniel Nord, a product leader, is set to join Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) as senior vice president and chief product officer on May 24. He will oversee a team of about 400 employees at several sites in the U.S. and Sweden as head of Maxar’s Earth intelligence product organization and help drive strategy for user...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) completed its $380 million acquisition of Gibbs & Cox two and a half months after it announced the cash transaction on Feb. 23 with the intention of combining the Arlington, Virginia-based ship design firm with the company’s maritime systems division. Gibbs & Cox will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leidos and help...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has won a potential 10-year, $495 million contract to provide wide area network services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA intends to obligate a $250 million minimum guaranteed award amount through the first task order under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Defense Research Engineering Networ...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) missions systems business will modify the Knifefish unmanned undersea vehicle into the Block I configuration and provide engineering support services under a $72.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Friday General Dynamics Mission Systems is expected to finish retrofitting five UUVs...
NASA has asked industry to submit feedback on a draft performance work statement for the Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test contract that will replace the Kennedy Space Center’s Test and Operations Support Contract. The proposed COMET contract will include management services for KSC’s launch infrastructure and ground proc...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has received a $618 million task order from the General Services Administration to provide system engineering, research and development, prototyping, training and open-source intelligence capabilities needed for enhancing the cyber and intelligence technologies of the intelligence community. The professional services are in suppo...
Tom Afferton, president of the cyber mission sector at Peraton, will provide a keynote speaker introduction at GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12. He will introduce Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, during the virtual event. Afferton joined Peraton, a portfolio compan...
