Alicia Calef, a two-decade veteran of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has joined Parsons (NYSE: PSN) to serve as senior vice president of operations for engineered systems. In a LinkedIn post, Calef said she will work with the business president and sector leaders to advance growth initiatives. She will lead strategic and tactical operations to m...
Chuck Hicks, a finance and business leader in the GovCon industry, has been named chief financial officer of Thomson Reuters Special Services, GovCon Wire has learned. He brings to the position over 25 years of experience overseeing financial and business operations, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and integration initiatives for se...
The U.S. Navy has awarded American Electronics Warfare Associates an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth $248.2 million to perform battlespace simulation research and development work. AMEWAS will create tools, models and products for the integrated battlespace simulation and test department under the Naval Air War...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit has won a $137.9 million contract to modernize a personal area network system of systems for the U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales customers. The GDIT business will support Special Warfare Assault Kit technology refresh, tactical air control party modernization and Guardian Angel...
Jennifer Ewbank, deputy director for digital innovation at the CIA, and Nand Mulchandani, chief technology officer of the agency, received their 2023 Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the industry recognition, during a recent visit to the headquarters. Only 3 days left to cast your votes for the 2023 Wash100...
Aeyon has received a two-year task order from the Department of the Navy to support data cleansing initiatives and to prepare to migrate the service branch’s legacy financial management applications to a new enterprise resource planning system. The order in support of the Naval Office of Financial Operations was issued under a potential $1 bil...
The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, better known as JADC2, has been an enigmatic and historically disparate effort across the defense landscape since its conception. But in 2022, the initiative took a little more shape as the DOD released its JADC2 strategy and implementation plan. Now, as JADC2 begins...
Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
NASA has issued a request for proposals for a potential five-year, $476 million program to acquire Earth observation data derived from constellations of small satellites operated by commercial entities. The space agency plans to conduct the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program as a full and open competition with an on-ramp mechanism to provi...
Twelve companies and two academic organizations received a total of $50 million in NASA’s latest round of funding for the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project. The awardees are members of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium, which will match the funds they received, the space agency said Friday. HiCAM’s production con...
