Boeing has secured a contract modification valued at $1.68 billion to manufacture and deliver seven Lot 13 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Thursday the deal includes foreign military sales of non-recurring engineering for the governments of Canada and Germany. Work will be performed in Se...
DCS, an engineering and technical services provider, has appointed Jeff Merli as vice president and division manager of the F/A-18 Software Engineering Support Division. The company said Thursday that Merli and his team will support the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at Naval Air Weapons Center in China Lake, California. He succeeds...
Prism Maritime has secured a $25.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to provide alteration installation team and in-service engineering agent support. The Department of Defense said Wednesday that the contract includes options that, if exercised, will bring the total value of the effort to $218.4 million. Under the contract, th...
Assertive Professionals has won a Missile Defense Agency contract worth about $127.3 million for general and executive administrative support services. The Department of Defense said Monday MDA launched a competitive procurement process through the SAM.gov website and received nine offers for the five-year contract. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract ...
Rimas Guzulaitas and Christina Gandolfo, both former executives of RTX subsidiary Raytheon, have been named to vice president positions at V2X, the executives shared their appointments on LinkedIn Sunday. Guzulaitas has been elevated to VP of modernization, sustainment and engineering after serving as VP of enterprise integr...
Steve Frank, a cybersecurity executive leader, has been appointed chief information security officer at KPMG, he announced on LinkedIn Wednesday. In addition, Frank will serve the same role for KPMG Americas, the New York-based member firm of the multinational professional services network. The executive succeeds John Israel for both posit...
GovCon Wire sat down with QinetiQ U.S. President and CEO Shawn Purvis, a four-time Wash100 Award winner, to discuss the company’s remarkable transformation over the past three years, recent strategic hires and its expanding technology portfolio. Here’s what she told us in her Executive Spotlight interview: GovCon Wire: You̵...
The U.S. Navy intends to issue a solicitation for a potential eight-year, $10 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award construction contract. According to a presolicitation notice posted on SAM.gov on Friday, awardees will compete for task orders to provide labor, supervision, tools, materials and equipment necessary to perform...
Paul Toledo, a nearly two-decade veteran in the space and defense industries, has joined Leidos as vice president of space systems division, the executive announced in a LinkedIn post Monday. Toledo spent almost seven years at Northrop Grumman before moving to the Reston, Virginia-based IT services provider. At the defense contractor, he held senior...
Staci Peters has taken on the role of senior vice president of business services at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, a Fluor-led company, according to her LinkedIn post Thursday. Peters, a senior finance executive with a demonstrated history of working in the federal government contractor industry, assumed her new post at SRNS after serving as its...
