The State Department has approved two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $9.4 billion combined for frigate modernization support and four multimission surface combatant ships or future frigates that the government of Greece intends to procure. The FMS deal for four Hellenic Future Frigates is worth $6.9 billion and the transaction...
Antonio Bobbitt, an information technology and program and project management veteran, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as business development and strategy executive, FedHealthIT reported Friday. Bobbitt is responsible for business strategy development, service offering improvement, and customer engagement in support of the government health and safe...
APR Consulting has won a potential $500 million contract to perform science, engineering and technical work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The transition period for the Temporary Support and Services contract – also known as TSAS – is scheduled to begin Feb. 1, the company said Thursday. Under the 10-year contract, APR...
Artificial intelligence company Torch.AI has acquired The DataTech Group for an undisclosed sum to provide further support to data processing efforts in the government sector with the use of technology. Illinois-based DataTech offers an information technology platform for public and private sector customers to plan, analyze and manage organizational...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has released a two-step broad agency announcement for the second iteration of a multiple-award contract vehicle for materials research and survivability studies. AFRL estimates the cost of its MaRSS II program to reach $98.7 million and seeks vendors to submit white papers on how to advance photonic materials used i...
Philip Perconti, former top science and technology executive within the U.S. Army, has joined Leonardo DRS as chief technology officer. He will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor’s corporate strategy for research and development, advance innovation and broaden partnerships to facilitate the development of integrated techn...
Jill Albertelli, formerly the senior vice president of transformation and strategy at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business, has been named president of the subsidiary’s military engines organization. She succeeds Matthew Bromberg, who has held the role since 2017 and led F135 engine program implementation efforts f...
Winston Beauchamp and Jay Bonci, respectively the deputy chief information officer and chief technology officer at the Department of the Air Force, will deliver keynote speeches at a Dec. 15 virtual forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss IT programs at the Air Force and Space Force. The “AF IT Modernization and Digital...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to help the U.S. Navy modernize sensor hardware and software for Super Hornet and Growler military aircraft platforms under a $71.4 million contract modification. The award includes work to update sensor instrumentation and interfaces related to the anti-surface warfare technical baseline of F/A-18 and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a solicitation for a 10-year recompete contract for professional, technical and scientific services focused on the satellite domain. The ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract set aside for small businesses and has a base term...
