U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded $450 million in contract modifications to seven companies to provide military freefall and static line support services. The modifications increase the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract’s ceiling value to $650 million and extend the performance period from five years to eight years, the De...
ExecutiveBiz featured Don Heckman, director of advanced solutions at Guidehouse, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about Guidehouse’s culture and strategy critical to expanding its federal sector footprint, the necessity of having cybersecurity hygiene across the government and the impact of artifici...
The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a set of cybersecurity standards created in 2019 to fortify the Defense Industrial Base against the increasing threat of cyberattacks and protect sensitive, unclassified information shared by the DOD and its contractors. CMMC incorporates these cyberse...
Travis Langster, vice president and general manager of COMSPOC, will move from the space traffic management services provider to the Department of Defense to assume the post of principal director of DOD space policy, SpaceNews reported Monday. He will serve within the office of the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense,...
TTM Technologies (Nasdaq: TTMI) has agreed to buy Telephonics from Griffon (NYSE: GFF) in a cash transaction worth approximately $330 million to expand its offerings and capabilities in the aerospace and defense market. Santa Ana, California-based printed circuit board manufacturer TTM said Monday it expects the transaction to be immediately accreti...
Castellum has completed its acquisition of government contractor Lexington Solutions Group for an undisclosed sum. Mark Fuller, president and CEO of Castellum, said in a statement published Monday LSG President Boyd Brown and his team will join Castellum and the transaction pushes Castellum above the $43 million run-rate threshold. “We also ...
Keith Cooperman, a two-decade federal contracting market veteran, has joined Millennium as vice president of business development. He will manage capture and proposal teams and oversee business growth and development operations at the cybersecurity company, Millennium said Friday. Cooperman most recently served as client relationship executive for G...
The State Department has approved a potential $997 million foreign military sale of 12 AH-1Z attack helicopters, manufactured by Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary, and associated equipment to Nigeria. The proposed deal will include 28 T-700 401C engines from General Electric (NYSE: GE), 2,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System gui...
David Kim, director of support at the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech on Wednesday at GovCon Wire’s virtual forum about military plans and priorities in the intelligence area. Kim acts as the Headquarters Service Executive and oversees contracts for Army INSCOM, which is based at Fort Belvo...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Jon Steinbach, president of federal solutions at Halcyon, to talk about the federal sector’s most critical cybersecurity challenges and the company’s anti-ransomware engine. He also discussed Halcyon’s efforts to drive value for its employees. Here’s an exc...
