Former military service members Roy Kitchener and David Gaedecke have been appointed senior executive advisers at Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) global defense business. Both veterans bring decades of military experience and will provide advice to Booz Allen’s leadership team on the development and delivery of new capabilities for glo...
The U.S. Army is looking to solve some key challenges for its contractors with a new digital center of excellence and a small “cell” unit to help with software development and acquisition specifically. The service branch’s Chief Information Officer Leonel Garciga, who was appointed to his post last year, said that some of the Army’s most f...
The board of directors at Eutelsat America Corp. has appointed Kevin Steen, president and CEO of OneWeb Technologies, to lead the combined EAC and OneWeb Technologies entity. He will serve as president and CEO of both EAC and OneWeb Technologies and oversee the integration of the companies’ teams and businesses following the completion of thei...
By Warren Linscott, Senior Vice President & Chief Product Officer at Deltek Over my career, I’ve closely followed the growth paths of small businesses in the government contracting space. I’ve seen several behaviors and practices that contributed to successfully growing their business. The first may be a cliché but it holds true now more th...
Intrepid has received a potential five-year, $445.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support services for the General Fund Enterprise Business System. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama launched an online solicitation and received one offer for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesda...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) reported strong top- and bottom-line results in the first quarter of 2024. The provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services to clients in the national security, engineering, and health sectors also raised its full-year guidance. Thomas Bell, CEO of Leidos and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said in a st...
Special Aerospace Services, a portfolio company of Godspeed Capital Management, has acquired Willbrook Solutions, a Huntsville, Alabama-headquartered provider of analytics services to defense, civilian and intelligence sectors. Willbrook will bring a team of 75 cleared industry professionals who support critical missile defense programs to SAS, a ne...
Luxembourg-based satellite communications company SES has agreed to buy Intelsat for approximately $3.1 billion to create a multiorbit operator that offers an expanded suite of satellite-based capabilities, greater coverage, spectrum portfolio and a ground network to serve customers worldwide. The boards of directors of SES and Intelsat have unanimo...
The Department of Defense’s deadline for full zero trust implementation is 2027, and to accomplish this goal, the organization plans to infuse automation into the process of reviewing zero trust plans from its agencies. There are currently 39 zero trust plans in the works, and updates are due each October. According to Randy Resnick, director of...
Deloitte has acquired Gryphon Scientific for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to broaden its biosafety, biosecurity, public health and emergency preparedness and response capabilities. Through the transaction, Deloitte said Monday it will absorb Gryphon’s scientists, programmers, data analysts, public health specialists and planning and p...
