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...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) logged total revenue of $205.3 million for the first quarter of 2023, up 22 percent year-over-year from $168.2 million and noted total billable subscribers for the January-March period reached 2.05 million. The satellite communications company said Thursday that about $139.3 million of Q1 revenue came from servi...
Guam-based Black Micro Corp. has booked a potential $225.7 million contract to conduct four construction activities at Tinian International Airport in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, with the U.S. Air Force obligating $221.7 million at the time of award. The projects involve building a cargo pad with taxiway extension, fuel t...
Marc Peterson, most recently vice president of strategic programs at Qualis, has been promoted to senior VP of warfighter services and test range programs at the Huntsville, Alabama-based government technical services contractor. He will oversee a portfolio of programs with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and the U.S. Space Force and the delivery of...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business will engineer the combat system of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers under a one-year, $308.5 million contract option. The funds will also cover miscellaneous items and travel activities that support work on the fleet’s mission systems and equipm...
A joint venture between KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Intuitive Machines has booked a five-year, $719 million contract to engineer systems for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Space & Technology Solutions will develop and test new space and scientific technologies under the third iteration of the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Se...
