Karen Dahut, president of the global defense sector at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) a two-time Wash100 winner, will retire from the company on Oct. 31 after a two-decade career, Booz Allen President and CEO Horacio Rozanski announced Friday in the company’s fiscal 2023 first quarter earnings call. Rozanski, a two-time Wash100 Award winner, ...
Seven large companies and two small businesses won spots on a potential five-year, $1.31 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain training systems. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle covers simulator contractor O&M and instructional services, training systems management, product support and o...
James Ebeler, chief technology officer of Three Wire Systems, recently spoke with GovCon Wire to discuss joining the company back in February as well as his strategic goals in the role for the rest of 2022 and beyond. In addition, Ebeler also shared his insights regarding the core values of the company culture at Three Wire Systems and...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded seven companies spots on a potential six-year, $762 million contract vehicle for subject matter expert services to the branch’s cloud-based data management platform. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform data preparation and architecture, data maturity model evaluation, algorithm development and dat...
The House of Representatives voted 243-187 Thursday to approve the CHIPS and Science Act one day after the Senate passed the bipartisan legislation by a 64-33 vote. The $280 billion funding package will support domestic initiatives aimed at helping both the public and private sectors meet the chip shortage challenge and cut reliance on semiconductor...
Cyber and information technology objectives are so implicit in the U.S. Air Force’s current trajectory that some officials have been prompted to double check that these issues are still at the front of mind for the service branch’s highest ranking officials. Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force, ass...
A Thales subsidiary has acquired the remaining stake of Leonardo DRS in Advanced Acoustic Concepts, the joint venture between the two organizations, for an undisclosed amount as part of the former’s efforts to expand engineering offerings for the U.S. military. Thales Defense & Security Inc. now has full ownership of AAC, which generated $...
Jennifer Chronis, vice president of public sector at VMware and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, recently spoke with GovCon Wire in the latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss her appointment with the company, how its workforce drives talent retention for the long term as well as the unique set of challenges on the business side of innovatio...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) posted $16.31 billion in sales for its fiscal year 2022 second quarter, up 4 percent on an organic basis over the prior-year period and reported adjusted earnings per share rose from $1.03 to $1.16 per share. The Arlington, Virginia-based defense and aerospace contractor attributed the higher sales to a strong start...
NASA has issued a presolicitation notice on its plan to adopt a single services contracting approach for long-term hardware production and operations of the Space Launch System. The space agency said Wednesday it intends to award the single Exploration Production and Operations Contract to Deep Space Transport, a joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: ...
