The State Department has approved Egypt’s three foreign military sales requests worth approximately $5.3 billion combined for Abrams tank refurbishment, Hellfire AGM-114R missiles, Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems, or APKWS, and related equipment and support services. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday it has already not...
Gladstone Investment and Proteus Enterprises have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Michigan-based engineering services and systems integration provider Ricardo Defense. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2024, Gladstone Investment said Thursday. The companies did not disclose additional details about the sale, but Glads...
The General Services Administration has released the list of awardees under the second rolling awards process for the unrestricted track of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus, or OASIS+, contract program. GSA said Tuesday it sent notices to proceed, or NTPs, to OASIS+ Unrestricted contract awardees across eight domains: techni...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and target sensitive government information, the protection of controlled unclassified information, or CUI, has become a top priority for the Department of Defense and its contractors. NIST Special Publication 800-171 plays a key role in DOD’s ...
The State Department has approved a request from South Korea to procure items intended to enhance its fleet of KDX-II destroyers. The potential foreign military sale, valued at an estimated $300 million, also covers related logistics supporting the nation’s KDX-II Class Destroyers Product Improvement Program, the Defense Security Cooperation ...
KBR has received a potential five-year, $445 million recompete task order to help expand capabilities for the Department of Defense’s Joint Mission Environment Test Capability, or JMETC, Program. The company said Monday it will support the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Test Resource Management Center, or TRMC, in broadening test and e...
Booz Allen Hamilton has appointed executive vice presidents Andrea Inserra and Steve Escaravage as presidents of the global defense sector and newly established defense technology group, respectively, effective April 1, 2025. The McLean, Virginia-based technology consulting firm said Inserra and Escaravage will drive digital transformation, mission ...
Houston-based TechTrans International has won a Defense Threat Reduction Agency contract worth $325 million to provide support services for the Cooperative Threat Reduction, or CTR, program. The Department of Defense said Friday DTRA launched a competitive procurement process and received three bids for the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefini...
Riverside Research has won a potential five-year, $160 million contract from the Defense Innovation Unit for technical, engineering and advisory support services to help DIU and its mission partners prototype, transition and scale commercial technologies across the Department of Defense. Steven Omick, president and CEO of Riverside Research, said th...
Leidos has appointed IT industry leader Tim Gilday as vice president of enterprise digital experience practice and human resources executive Tracee Sanders as VP of HR. Gilday and Sanders announced their appointments in separate LinkedIn posts published Tuesday. Tim Gilday Prior to Leidos, he was emerging technology senior director at General Dynami...
