Vernon Saunders, an industry veteran and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed senior vice president of the national intelligence community unit at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC). He will report to Michael LaRouche, president of SAIC’s national security and space sector and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, the co...
The Space Development Agency has issued a draft request for proposals for a program to provide demonstration and experimentation capabilities for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System seeks to supplement the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellite constell...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure additional Sikorsky-built multirole naval helicopters along with related equipment and support services under a potential $985 million foreign military sales agreement. Australia intends to buy a dozen MH-60R Seahawk units as part of the country’s homeland defense and region...
Arlington Capital Partners has agreed to purchase Systems Planning and Analysis from CM Equity Partners and SPA Management for an undisclosed sum and plans to combine SPA with its portfolio company MCR to create an independent advisory firm focused on supporting the missions of government and national security customers. William Vantine, president a...
Salient CRGT has won a potential five-year, $207 million task order to help the Department of Veterans Affairs develop, implement, operate and maintain its enterprise network security and transportation services. The Network Engineering, Design, Implementation and Infrastructure Support task order awarded through VA’s Transformation Twenty-One Tot...
The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems will help the Defense Logistics Agency maintain operational technology used to manage the storage and distribution of fuel products for Department of Defense missions across the globe. Contract work includes preventive and corrective maintenance work on sensors, network communications, controls, alarms and gauges a...
Caliburn International has rebranded as Acuity International to reflect the company’s evolving focus on technology-based services for its global government and commercial enterprise customers. The rebrand follows Caliburn’s April 2021 announcement that it would split into two new companies, Acuity International and Valiance Humanitarian, follo...
In an effort to streamline the organization’s overlapping systems and harmonize challenges across centers and directorates, the Defense Intelligence Agency released its standardized framework for a coherent approach in achieving multilevel objectives in June. Lt. Gen Scott Berrier, director of DIA, said the 2021 DIA Strategy co...
Systecon Group has won a contract to help the U.S. Army analyze the operational status of military vehicles and weapons systems using its’ proprietary AI and Predictive Analytics software. The company said it will implement predictive analytics technology that enables the Army to understand equipment condition and optimize the decision-making pro...
John Hart, a more than 25-year GovCon industry veteran, has been named chief growth officer of Valiant Integrated Services in a string of leadership appointments at the Herndon, Virginia-based government services contractor. Hart previously worked at Peraton as vice president of business and capture for the company’s defense solutions business, Va...
