NASA will move forward to contract negotiations for the potential $104 million second phase of its Small Business Innovation Research program for future deep space missions. The space agency has selected 137 research and technology proposals from 117 U.S. small businesses and research organizations out of 323 responses received for the SBIR program,...
Jacksonville, Florida-based engineering and infrastructure services company Haskell has agreed to purchase Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) heavy construction business and some design assets of the latter’s engineering business for an undisclosed sum. Haskell said Wednesday the transaction is scheduled to clos...
Bechtel has appointed Barbara Rusinko, a three-decade engineering veteran and a former manager at Bechtel, to the role of president for the Reston, Virginia-based infrastructure management services contractor’s U.S. government business and to the rank of executive vice president. The company said Tuesday Rusinko will oversee the Bech...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $106 million contract modification to manufacture additional C-130J aircraft for the U.S. Air Force for fiscal year 2017. The company will build two C-130J-30, three HC-130J, five MC-130J and one KC-130J under the multiyear production contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Lockheed will pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 15, 2016 ” BAE Systems will vie for the prime contractor spot of the Australia™s Jindalee operational radar network (JORN) phase 6 upgrade in 2018, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday it will submit its Request for Tender this 2016 as a prime contractor of the Project Air 2025. œWe...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 15, 2016 – Mac Curtis, Vencore President and CEO, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in government contracting for his leadership in tech research-and-development. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public secto...
Zimmer US Inc. has received a potential five-year, $380.98 million order from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide orthopedic supplies to the four U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies. The contract contains a one-year base period and four one-year options and the agency will use defense working funds from fisca...
J.D. Kuhn, former senior vice president and controller at Salient CRGT, has been promoted to chief financial officer at the Fairfax, Va.-based software development and data analytics contractor. The company said Tuesday that Kuhn succeeds Ted Dunn, who will retire from the company after six years both there and the predecessor Sa...
The GovCon Index failed to turnaround declines incurred during morning trade Monday and ended at a loss of 0.237 points to 73.743 as U.S. stocks hovered in and out of positive territory throughout the afternoon session. Investors have turned their attention to the Federal Reserve‘s two-day meeting Wednesday and Thursday wit...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will reorganize the roles and responsibilities of technology-related executive positions at the Chicago-based aerospace and defense contractor as Chief Technology Officer John Tracy plans to retire from the company in July after 10 years in the role. Tracy will start to transition his responsibilities over engineering, op...
