The State Department has cleared a potential $2.43 billion foreign military sale of F-16 Block 70/72 fighter planes, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), to the Philippine government. This proposed FMS transaction covers the procurement of 10 F-16C jets, a pair of F-16D units and 15 F100-PW-229EEP or F110-GE-129D engines, the Defense Securit...
Ocean Bay Information and Systems Management has secured a $167.2 million contract to provide administrative, technical and professional services to the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to an award notice posted on SAM. gov. The DEA’s Office of Acquisition and Relocation Management sought a contractor to support the agency mission un...
Dennis Freeman, a Department of Defense veteran, has joined Mission Secure as a technical adviser within the cybersecurity company’s government and defense business. He brings decades of military and civilian service experience to his new position and will help Mission Secure execute its operational technology cybersecurity strategy for govern...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced key appointments as the technology company moves to establish two business units and restructure its data platform group into two groups – datacenter and artificial intelligence and network and edge. Greg Lavender, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at VMware (NYSE: VMW)...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon). John Mengucci joined CACI as its chief operating officer and president of U.S. operations in 2012 and served in those roles ...
Mathias Winter, president of Winter Strategic Solutions and a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined the board of directors at San Diego-based airborne systems provider Global Air Logistics and Training. Winter brings more than 35 years of defense sector experience as GALT aims to meet its profitability and growth objectives, the veteran-owned c...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has secured a potential five-year, $61 million contract to help the Department of Defense engineer and support systems intended for irregular warfare operations. Work under the contract will include program management, analytical, administrative and operational work for the irregular warfare technical support dir...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential $191.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture inertial navigation systems for Increment 8 of the Trident II submarine-launched fleet ballistic missile system. The company’s rotary and mission systems business will produce the devices as part of the Trident Shipboard Systems Integr...
DataRobot has named Elise Leung Cole, former vice president and deputy general counsel at Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), as chief people officer in a series of C-suite appointments aimed at driving the next phase of growth for the Boston-based enterprise artificial intelligence technology provider. Michael Schmidt, chief scientist of DataRobot, assumed ...
Randy Soper, lead data strategist at Illuminate Mission Solutions, acted as the moderator for an expert panel discussion during GovCon Wire Events’ Data Innovation Forum on June 15th, 2021. The following panelists discussed the federal government’s data innovation goals and priorities featuring Chris Borneman of Software AG Government Soluti...
