The State Department has approved Poland’s request to buy 250 M1A2 SEPv3 main battle tanks, manufactured by General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), through an approximately $6 billion foreign military sales agreement. Pieces of equipment covered by the FMS package include 250 AN/VLQ-12 counter-improvised explosive device systems, 26 M88A2 Hercules combat rec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 22, 2022 — Cedric George, director for Department of Defense strategic business development at Amazon Web Services, has underscored the role of edge computing in helping the DOD give warfighters access to tactical edge systems across multidomain, ExecutiveBiz reported. In a recent interview, George shared how the DOD showca...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will develop a 5G communications network testbed for the U.S. Marine Corps and the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering under a $19.3 million prototype project agreement with the Department of Defense. Lockheed said Wednesday it will work with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), DISH Wireless, Rampart Co...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a $200 million contract to provide technical and engineering services to U.S. Pacific Air Forces Command. The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service disclosed the award in a SAM notice posted Monday. Under the contract, Leidos will support PACAF’s command and control, communications, com...
Craig Halliday, CEO of Unanet, recently took part in Executive Mosaic’s latest Executive Spotlight interview with GovCon Wire to discuss Unanet’s latest acquisitions and expansion of its technical capabilities as well as the company’s growth strategy, the importance of streamlining federal acquisition and the lesser known challen...
A joint venture led by AECOM will provide architectural and engineering services to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood and hazard risk reduction initiative under a potential five-year, $300 million contract. The Compass Production and Technical Services JV will help the agency analyze natural disaster risks in historically underse...
Leo Taddeo, formerly the chief information security officer of Cyxtera, has been named CISO of Appgate and president of its federal division. As CISO, he will lead global security operations, business continuity and crisis management functions of Appgate, which spun out of Cyxtera in 2020, the Miami-based secure access company said Monday. The newly...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as an inductee into the 2022 Wash100 — the annual list of public and private sector leaders who are at the forefront of trends and events that shape government contracting activity. This marks the second consecutive year that he’s been selected to receive the most presti...
Finland’s defense ministry has formalized an agreement to procure 64 F-35A conventional takeoff and landing jets along with associated equipment and sustainment services from the U.S. government for approximately $9.4 billion, Reuters reported Friday. The signing of the procurement documents came one month after Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: ...
The State Department has approved a potential sale to Indonesia of F-15 fighter aircraft built by Boeing (NYSE: BA) and associated equipment through an estimated $13.9 billion government-to-government agreement with the U.S. Indonesia’s foreign military sales request includes 36 F-15ID jets, 87 F110-GE-129 or F100-PW-229 engines, 92 embedded G...
