Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $1.42 billion sole-source contract to provide logistics and mission sustainment services to the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of military transport planes. The AF Life Cycle Management Center is obligating $91 million in fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance funds at the time of the award and expects the company...
Cybersecurity thought leader Melissa Hathaway, CipherTrace CEO David Jevans, Abaxx Associates CEO Eric Scofield and Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, took part in an enlightening panel discussion on identifying virtual asset knowledge gaps, addressing ransomware threats and accelerating the speed of fed...
The federal government’s effort in mobilizing more government contractors in recent years to help the nation move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic sets a favorable precedent for the professionals in the industry. With this consistent rise of the trajectory and the government’s planned reforms to level the playing field for small bus...
SpaceX has won a potential five-year, $102 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate technologies under a program that seeks to determine the viability of using large rockets to support the Department of Defense’s global logistics missions, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Under the Rocket Cargo program, the Air Force Research Laborator...
Gary Johnston, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined the board of advisors of Pinehurst, North Carolina-based professional services company Leyden Solutions, GovCon Wire has learned. He will provide organizational change management and mentorship support to Leyden’s executive team as the company pursues growth in delivering support service...
The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to block the White House’s COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirement for large private businesses but allowed the Biden administration to implement a vaccine mandate for over 10 million health care workers whose facilities take part in Medicare and Medicaid programs, The Wall Street Journal reported. Th...
Susan Mitchell, former vice president of professional services for enterprise resource planning systems at NeoSystems, has been promoted to serve as the company’s chief financial officer. She will be responsible for implementing an integrated approach to manage financial operations at the Tysons, Virginia-based information technology service p...
The Department of Defense is ramping up its modernization efforts with critical funding boosts and newly created senior executive roles to match the speed of rapid global developments and combat urgent pacing challenges. Defense spending for fiscal year 2022 has increased by five percent from the previous fiscal year’s defense policy measure. In D...
Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, surgeon general of the U.S. Navy, will keynote an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event to set the stage for a discussion of the country’s pandemic response and resilience initiatives. Gillingham was confirmed to the post in October 2019 and is dual-hatted as chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery....
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president for information solutions at Deltek and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday. Previously, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the major improvements that government contractors and their respective organizations have ma...
