The GovCon Index extended its slide into a second consecutive session Thursday with a decline of 0.372 points to 75.982 driven by a mixed second-quarter earnings report from aviation technology manufacturer Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL). Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins fell 5.18 percent — or $4.87 – to end Th...
Engility (NYSE: EGL) has secured a potential five-year, $247.9 million contract to advise and assist in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency™s research and development mission. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will execute the contract at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico and Egli...
Ken Myers, former director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, has joined Arlington, Va.-based government logistics service contractor PAE as president of the company™s national security solutions business unit. PAE said Monday Myers will oversee the NSS unit that PAE created in 2015 from its January 2015 acquisition&nbs...
X Corp Solutions has received a potential five-year, $50 million contract to provide counterintelligence and security support services to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. DTRA awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition with nine proposals received, the Defense Department said ...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts In the current digital environment, supply chains are essential to national security, vital infrastructure and international trade. They have, however, also emerged as one of the most often used attack methods in cybersecurity. Cybercrimi...
There’s a common understanding at this point that quantum computing is ungraspable to the layman and possibly even to scientific experts. This very publication has spoken to leading minds in the field who admit that it’s difficult to pin down, its essence not able to be communicated sufficiently. Gil Herrera, research director at the Nation...
Supercomputing provider PsiQuantum created its first-ever government advisory board to keep abreast of the latest quantum technologies and developments applicable to the sector. The new board includes Wash100 awardees Robert Sharp, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense ...
By Mick Fox, Chief Operating Officer, TechnoMile In many ways, the contracts team within an aerospace and defense or government contracting organization plays the role of “air traffic control” for each federal contract — from those they consider pursuing (pre-flight), to those they win and manage (execution), to contract close-out (flight plan...
Extreme weather events continue to increase in frequency and severity on a global scale, and climate change is gaining greater importance across federal government agencies’ priorities and concerns. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, the U.S. has experienced at least...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded $1.6 billion in contracts through fiscal year 2022 to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to conduct technology development and risk reduction work on the Next Generation Interceptor program. MDA received three proposals for the contracts and is obligating $291.9 million in research and...
