The Department of Defense’s long-awaited enterprise cloud effort finally got off the ground in December 2022, when four commercial cloud service providers landed a spot on the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. Executive Mosaic spoke with leaders from each of the awardee companies — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business segment has booked a $7.8 billion contract modification from the U.S. Navy to manufacture 126 F-35 fighter jets for domestic and international military customers. The award reflects an option for lot 17 production and delivery services covering 81 F-35A, 26 F-35B and 19 F-35C units, the Depart...
DCS has won a potential eight-year, $2.09 billion contract to support a U.S. Army research and development laboratory that works on advanced technology for military ground systems. Army Contracting Command received three bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covering technical and engineering services to the Combat Capabilities Development Comma...
General Electric (NYSE: GE), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Carbon-Carbon Advanced Technologies have received separate contracts from the Department of Defense to further build up supply chains for hypersonic systems and strategic platforms. GE will increase capacity to produce high- and ultra-high temperature composites under a potential 39-month...
A Chugach Government Solutions subsidiary will help the U.S. Air Force manage equipment, personnel and operations at a military base in Texas under a seven-year, $113.9 million contract. Chugach Logistics and Facility Services JV will use enterprise asset and computerized maintenance management platforms to support Laughlin AF Base operations, the c...
U.S. space agencies are gearing up for a launch-filled summer as some of the country’s most highly-anticipated and promising programs make important progress. The rise in government launches in recent months mirrors the exponential growth of the commercial space industry and aligns with a speed-focused strategy set in motion by the Air Force’s a...
V2X (NYSE: VVX) has won a potential $324.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide base operations support services at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast in Jacksonville, Florida, received two offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defens...
Lentech, a small disadvantaged business that offers information technology and space systems engineering support to government customers, has purchased the assets of fellow IT company Eclipse Engineering. Eclipse will become a division of Lentech and the combined organization will have software, cloud, cyber service offerings for federal civilian, d...
The fateful day has come. The final 24 hours of voting for Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100 popular vote contest are here, after three full months of the most significant and consequential names in government contracting and the federal sector duking it out for the general public’s renown. Voting officially closes tomorrow, Friday April 28. ...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) reported $9.9 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2023, up 5.2 percent from the prior-year period, and ended the quarter with a total backlog of $89.8 billion, of which $77.1 billion was funded. The Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor said Wednesday the companywide backlog represented a 3 percent increase...
