As a program manager and engineer in the U.S. Air Force, Rocky Thurston gained the skills he needed to transition smoothly into government contracting. His first work in the field was as a program manager for an intelligence community contract at Booz Allen Hamilton, after which point he took on more assignments and learned and...
Sterling Jones, a two-decade industry veteran, was named vice president and general manager of Agile Development Group at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), according to a LinkedIn announcement. Jones previously served as general manager of military avionics at the Melbourne, Florida-headquartered defense contracting company. The executive has been ...
The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has begun seeking information on a potential $100 million single-award contract to provide information technology and engineering support services to the 502d Trainer Development Squadron. The Trainer Developer II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will support the...
The Department of Homeland Security has begun seeking information for a recompete contract worth more than $100 million to provide information technology operations and maintenance services to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The IT User and Field Operations Support II contract vehicle has a five-year ordering period and covers technical s...
A BAE Systems business arm has secured a $459.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide hardware components for a multi-mode radio designed to provide line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight communications on aviation platforms. BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration will also perform repair services and technical, engineer...
The U.S. Space Force has unveiled a new strategy detailing how the service branch will enhance its capability development processes and foster commercial partnerships to improve the country’s competitive advantage. The military branch said Wednesday it will implement the Commercial Space Strategy through four lines of effort: collaborative tra...
The State Department has approved the government of Saudi Arabia’s request to procure communications and navigation terminals and associated equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $101.1 million foreign military sales agreement. Saudi Arabia has asked to buy 63 Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminal B...
Van Gurley’s successful career in government contracting might appear largely happenstance. “I typically said yes and would walk through that door even when I wasn’t sure what was on the other side of it,” Gurley told us about opportunities he encountered that proved invaluable later in his career. He began his working life as a...
Open radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a new approach to RANs that separates traditionally integrated hardware and software and upholds a set of specific standards to enable multiple vendors to provide different components under one cloud service provider’s network. The Department of Defense has made 5G a top priority, and it has taken notic...
For the past 20-plus years, Jason Adolf has helped government agencies identify and implement technologies that help them modernize for the present and the future. As vice president for global public sector at Appian, he works closely with defense and civilian agencies as well as state and local government and education institutions to help them...
