Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential three-year, $178 million contract from the U.S. Navy to expand the Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant at the Allegany Ballistic Laboratory in West Virginia. Work on the firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract action will occur in Rocket Center, West Virginia, through September 2026, the Depar...
Vincent DiFronzo, senior vice president of SAIC’s Air Force, Combatant Command and Department of Defense Agency unit, has been appointed chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 DOD Group. The 4×24 leadership series is the government contracting industry’s premier executive networking program. Designed to promote the sharing of ide...
According to Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, the service branch is engaging in multiple efforts to join forces with small businesses, which offer a number of new warfighting capabilities. One of these programs is Project Vista, which he noted during a panel discussion at ...
A General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has secured a $967 million contract modification to continue design, development and lead yard support services associated with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class fast-attack submarines. General Dynamics Electric Boat will conduct contract work in Connecticut, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virgini...
ECS Federal has secured a potential $190.2 million contract from the U.S. Army for the development and demonstration of artificial intelligence capabilities. According to an award notice posted on SAM.gov, the broad agency announcement for the Project “Runaway” has an initial value of $65.7 million that has the potential to reach the ceiling amo...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space business segment has secured a $1.2 billion contract modification to manufacture submarine-launched ballistic missiles for the U.S. Navy and a foreign military sales customer. The modification covers the production of Trident II D5 ballistic missiles and the provision of deployed systems support services for...
Patrick Shanahan, former deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and member of the board of directors of Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE: SPR), has been named as the company’s interim president and CEO. He takes over the responsibilities of Thomas Gentile, who resigned as president, CEO and board member on Saturday, the Wichita, Kansas-ba...
QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm has secured a potential $140.2 million contract modification from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide technical, administrative and professional support services for the Department of Defense’s strategic capabilities office. The modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract has a base value o...
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Draper has received a potential five-year, $2.2 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and technical support services for the maintenance and sustainment of the Mark 6 guidance subsystem of the submarine-launched Trident II ballistic missile. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes su...
Kris Chester was elevated to the role of chief technology officer at WTI, a Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider that caters to the U.S. service branches, defense and civilian agencies and other government organizations, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive most recently served as WTI’s enterprise architect...
