Michael McCord and Ronald Moultrie received Senate confirmation to serve as comptroller at the Department of Defense and as DOD undersecretary for intelligence and security, respectively, Defense News reported Friday. McCord, a 2015 Wash100 awardee, oversaw financial and budgetary functions at the Pentagon as its comptroller and chief financial offi...
The Department of Defense indicated in court documents filed Friday that it is preparing for more months of litigation over a contract protest filed by Amazon Web Services challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Federal News Network reported. DOD, Microsoft and AWS sa...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $950 million in combined value to 22 companies to procure intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment and services in support of U.S. customers under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Department of Defense said Thursday recipients of the multiple...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased Pentek for approximately $65 million as part of efforts to expand software-based radio, radio frequency system-on-chip and data recorder offerings. “The acquisition of Pentek is an excellent fit for our market and low-risk content expansion strategy,” Mark Aslett, president and CEO of Mercury and a 20...
Belcan, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners, has bought service-disabled veteran-owned professional services contractor VICTOR42 for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand work with government and defense customers. Washington, D.C.-based VICTOR42 offers special operations and information technology support to government clients such as th...
Charles Onstott, a nearly three-decade veteran of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined Calibre Systems as vice president and chief technology officer. He will advance innovation and growth initiatives through the development and application of enterprise information technology platforms and help identify opportunities fo...
Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has acquired The Kaizen Company for an undisclosed sum to expand consulting service offerings under the former’s international development practice. Washington, D.C.-based Kaizen will be part of Tetra Tech’s government services group and performs advisory and consulting work in the health, education, peacekeepin...
The Atlantic Council has released a report offering recommendations for the U.S. government and its allies to maintain national security and economic competitiveness in the global economy with the use of technology. The council said Wednesday its Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data classified those recommendation...
A Congressional Budget Office report on its estimated $634 billion price tag for modernizing, operating and manning the national nuclear enterprise over the next decade includes “long-planned” submarine construction, plutonium pit production and military weapons programs, according to McAleese & Associates. Jim McAleese, founder of M...
Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, have closed the acquisition of Cubic for approximately $3 billion. Cubic said Tuesday it will remain headquartered in San Diego and stop trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the go-private transaction. Cubic stockholders approved an amended buyout off...
