Over time, acquisition processes in the federal government, particularly in the Department of Defense and space realms, have become more flexible and amenable to specific situations and users. In the last half decade or so, veteran DOD servants say changes such as these and others have breathed new life into the development and production of...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) could provide an acoustic surveillance system and related equipment to the Australian government through a $207 million foreign military sale request approved by the State Department. Australia has asked to buy Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Expeditionary mission systems for Vessels of Opportunity and associated t...
Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...
The U.S. Army Contracting Command has started its solicitation process for a potential $99 million small business set-aside contract to procure development, sustainment and technical support services, on behalf of the branch’s Communication Electronics Command Software Engineering Center. A selected vendor will help the CECOM SEC to develop, m...
Arnold Nowinski, former executive director of the launch and safety business at Axient, has been elevated to a vice president role within the same unit under Axient’s national security space segment. He will lead a team of engineers and scientists that conducts new entrant certification for launch platforms, verifies system safety at U.S. Spac...
Tom McCabe, an industry veteran with more than three decades of legal and operations management experience, has been appointed chief operating officer and general counsel at digital engineering company Istari, GovCon Wire has learned. McCabe comes to Istari from BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), where he helped grow earnings over 50 percent in five yea...
Lentech, a small disadvantaged business that offers information technology and space systems engineering support to government customers, has purchased the assets of fellow IT company Eclipse Engineering. Eclipse will become a division of Lentech and the combined organization will have software, cloud, cyber service offerings for federal civilian, d...
Ensco has acquired rail infrastructure inspection system provider KLD Labs through an equity purchase transaction. The two companies will combine their technology platforms and engineering services to help customers inspect train tracks and vehicles, Ensco said Tuesday. Hauppauge, New York-based KLD offers digital tools to support automated manageme...
Derrick Pledger, a senior vice president and chief information officer at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies seeking to drive digital modernization efforts to improve operations and address mission challenges should look for a vendor that is focused on building deep technical partnerships to develop new platforms and capabilities for agen...
With only a week left in voting, there is officially no more time to procrastinate contributing to the 2023 Wash100 Award popular vote contest. When voting closes on Friday, April 28, submissions will be tabulated and the top 10 most beloved government contracting — and industry adjacent — executives will be decided. The Wash100 is a...
