A LexisNexis Risk Solutions platform has received approval from Kantara Initiative as a component service operating at Identity Assurance Level 2 following its compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Special Publication 800-63 rev. 3 requirements. The Risk Defense Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a risk-based...
American Systems has won a potential five-year, $165.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide software engineering and technical support services for naval air programs. The company will deliver such services to the Naval Air Systems Command’s software engineering department in support of various aircraft and related subsystems, the Depart...
PAE‘s (Nasdaq: PAE) aviation and technical services division will help the U.S. Navy maintain F-5F Tiger II and F-5N Freedom fighter aircraft under a two-year, $98 million contract. The company will perform F-5 F/N fleet maintenance and logistics support work at the organizational, intermediate or depot level for the Naval Air Warfare Center A...
Shane Arnott, a more than 25-year aerospace and defense industry veteran, has joined defense technology company Anduril Industries as chief engineer, GovCon Wire has learned. He will help Anduril modernize defense capabilities in support of the U.S. and its allies using his technical expertise in concept development, autonomy and simulation. Prior t...
Kimberly Lebak, an executive in Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division, has been named as head of an HII and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) joint venture that performs cleanup work at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. HII said Tuesday that Lebak will oversee the $1.4 ...
The Senate has confirmed Heidi Shyu‘s nomination to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering, a role first held by Michael Griffin since the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act elevated it at undersecretary level. As USD(R&E), Shyu will be responsible for setting the strategy for D...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will continue to provide systems engineering and integration services in support of space launch operations under a potential $475.5 million contract with the U.S. Space Force. The company will support the National Security Space Launch program and provide launch service integration, fleet surveillance and certif...
Fearless, a Baltimore, Maryland-based digital services firm, has won a potential five-year, $120 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services to support modernization efforts across the government, Technical.ly reported Tuesday. The software firm will provide TTS offices and i...
Six companies have won positions on a $218.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the U.S. Navy’s surface ship programs. Each contractor will receive $100,000 as a guaranteed minimum contract amount and can vie for engineering and technical services, program management and information technology support task orde...
Tom Vice, a three-decade veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed CEO of Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s subsidiary that focuses on building space platforms for both the government and commercial sectors. He joins Sierra Space as the company aims to launch the Dream Chaser spaceplane on its first cargo delivery mission to the Internat...
