By Light Professional IT Services has acquired government information technology services contractor Phacil for an undisclosed sum. Phacil™s œdiversified IT capabilities across a wide customer base make it an excellent fit with our company, and will allow us to expand our offering to better serve our customers, Bob Donahue, CEO and fo...
Three companies have been awarded positions on a 10-year, $446M blanket purchase agreement under the information technology research and informative services category of the Department of Defense’s Enterprise Software Initiative. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific selected three offerors for the award via a competitive procurement among ...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) secured a potential $320M contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a new variant of an air-to-ground radar system used on the U-2 Dragon Lady reconnaissance aircraft. The company said Monday it will equip the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System 2B with an electronically scanned array antenna to increase surveillance cove...
Graham Smith, former chief financial officer at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named chairman of the board of directors of data management software vendor Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK). Smith has served as a board member at Splunk over the past eight years, the company said Monday. He previously held finance leadership roles at Advent Software, Vitria...
Acrow Corp. of America and Mabey Bridge have won spots on a potential $250M U.S. Army contract to provide bridging system support services. Both companies will compete for orders under the firm-fixed-price contract that covers wet and dry gap line of communications bridge construction efforts, the Department of Defense said Monday. Army Contracting ...
KBR™s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm has won three task orders worth a combined $95.7M to provide engineering, cybersecurity and information technology services to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. The USAF Installation Contracting Agency issued the awards to KBRwyle through a contract vehicle managed by the Department of Defense Inf...
A Boeing-led (NYSE: BA) team has received a potential $4.1B contract modification to provide technical capabilities needed to expand and build up the Ground-based Midcourse Defense anti-ballistic missile system. The Department of Defense said Friday the modification partially definitizes the potential $6.56B contract action that the Missil...
An investment company offered to acquire Avaya (NYSE: AVYA) in a proposed deal valuing the telecommunications equipment maker at $5B, or more than $20 per share, Reuters reported Monday. The report said Santa Clara, Calif.-based Avaya aims to grow its communications software business and cloud-based technology portfolio. The leveraged buyout offer c...
William Noon, a corporate vice president and chief accounting officer at Vectrus (NYSE: VEC), has been selected by the board to serve as acting chief financial officer of the company starting April 15. Noon will assume the responsibilities of the departing Matthew Klein, a senior VP and CFO at Vectrus, and continue to serve as...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented John Harris, CEO of Raytheon International and vice president of Business Development of Raytheon, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award on Wednesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Harris for securing several major contracts for Raytheon and supporting projects in defense, civil govern...
