The U.S. arm of professional services provider Serco has secured a potential $84 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for organizational planning, program management and technical consulting support to the Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) and its air combat missions in Southwest Asia. Serco Inc. said Thursday it will assist 9AF AFCENT person...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will provide technology and prototype development support services for the National Security Agency under a potential $700 million contract. The company said Wednesday it will support the analyst community by providing subject matter expertise to help NSA build and maintain technology, techniques and tools under the single-award,...
Richie Obermayer, vice president of technical sales at GuardSTACK Technologies, said government agencies looking to accelerate digital transformation efforts should consider adopting 5G technology. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Obermayer wrote that 5G networks provide lower latency and faster speeds and facilitate the deployment of inter...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential nine-year, $700 million contract to deliver an integrated cloud and sensor platform to the Defense Intelligence Agency. The company said Wednesday it will use model-based systems engineering to consolidate DIA’s technical capabilities and apply digital engineering to enable operational effic...
The State Department has approved a potential $255 million foreign military sale of L3Harris Technologies-built (NYSE: LHX) communications equipment to the government of Poland. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday L3Harris will serve as the principal contractor on the transaction, which covers the provision of multiband, multichan...
Mergers and acquisitions across the government contracting landscape are back on the upswing after a relatively slow year for deals. In an Executive Spotlight interview with Executive Mosaic, Booz Allen Hamilton Executive Vice President Rob Silverman gave us a glimpse into the company’s recent acquisitions and shared insights for M&A...
Gail Hogan, vice president and chief information officer at Noblis, is stepping down on April 5 after a more than four-decade career with the Reston, Virginia-based science, technology and strategy services provider. Hogan has provided leadership and strategic direction for deploying information technology services and transitioning enterprise syste...
The State Department has approved the potential sale of RTX-built (NYSE: RTX) MK 54 all-up round lightweight torpedoes and related equipment to the German government under a potential $300 million foreign military sales deal. RTX’s integrated defense systems division will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed transaction, which cov...
Lorne Graves, formerly chief technology officer at Abaco Systems, has taken on the same role at Frontgrade Technologies, a provider of analog and radiation-hardened technologies for aerospace and defense applications. He has over two decades of experience in deploying and integrating mission processing, embedded computing and radio frequency platfor...
The military healthcare system is a microcosm for the broader general healthcare challenges and setbacks the U.S. is facing: a lack of unification and standardization, resources spread too thin and deficiencies in technical modernization. All of these challenges, in addition to the added urgency and geographical expansiveness of the mission, makes d...
