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The U.S. Navy has awarded Kongsberg’s defense and aerospace business segment a $329 million contract to provide medium caliber turret systems for the U.S. Marine Corps ACV-30 amphibious combat vehicles. The Department of Defense said Monday the firm-fixed-price contract covers Lots 5 and 6 full-rate production of 175 Protector Remote Turret 20...

John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International and a five-time Wash100 Award recipient, was appointed as vice chair of Clarkson University’s Board of Trustees. He was elected to the board in October 2019. In a Friday announcement, Clarkson University highlighted Mengucci’s roles aside from being the Board of Trustees’ vice ...

Wunderman Thompson, an advertising agency that recently merged with VMLY&R to form VML, has secured a hybrid contract potentially valued at $1.91 billion from the U.S. Navy to provide supplies and services to boost the recruiting efforts of the Marine Corps. The Department of Defense said Friday the firm-fixed-price and cost, indefinit...

HII’s Mission Technologies division has received a potential $3 billion task order from the Department of Defense to provide logistics and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, support to help improve joint force capabilities. LOGIX Task Order The McLean, Virginia-based company said Thursday the Logistics Services, ISR Operations ...

The General Services Administration has awarded a $568.7 million contract to Viasat to support the continued migration of the command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities from special forces to general purpose forces.  According to an award notice posted on SAM.gov, the ...

Parsons, a technology-focused firm and federal government contractor, reported record revenues, earnings and other milestones in the third quarter of 2024. In a statement released Wednesday, Carey Smith, chair, president and CEO of Parsons, said, “We delivered record third-quarter results for total revenue, organic revenue growth, net income, ...

Private equity firm OceanSound Partners has acquired Antenna Research Associates, or ARA, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help the latter expand its client relationships and radio frequency capabilities to facilitate the delivery of new technologies to the aerospace and defense market. New York-based OceanSound said Tuesday ARA’s ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, has secured a $1.2 billion contract modification from the U.S. Army for the procurement of UH-60M helicopters. The Department of Defense said Monday the award covers UH-60M aircraft for foreign military sales to Australia, Brazil, Greece, Sweden and Thailand in fiscal 2025. Sikorsky will perform contract work ...

ManTech has received a U.S. Air Force contract worth approximately $98 million to provide services for the processing and analysis of a wide range of environmental samples containing nuclear-related materials. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will support the Air Force Tech...

Cloud technologies have become widely adopted across the federal government. The Department of Defense made a significant investment in cloud at the end of 2022 with its $9 billion multi-vendor JWCC contract. But now, two years later, what’s on the horizon for cloud in the public sector? According to Steve Derr, vice president of Oracle̵...