Robert Judd has been elevated to chief operating officer of Metron, a company focused on providing technology and science-based offerings to both public and private sector customers. In his new role, Judd will collaborate with Metron’s executive leadership and board of directors to boost company growth and financial diversification w...
Sierra Nevada Corp. has booked a five-year, $716.8 million contract to provide high-band aircraft sensor components to the U.S. Navy, international cooperative partners and foreign military sales clients. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from Naval Air Systems Command covers the procurement of Multi-Intelligence Sensor Devel...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm will compete for task orders to perform rapid prototyping and research and development for the U.S. Air Force through its position on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract for digital engineering support services. Accenture Federal Services will work to deliver such services in support of the military branc...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected six small businesses to compete for marine construction projects under a $260 million firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday. USACE received 10 bids for the multiple-award task order contract via the internet. According to the award notice posted on SAM.gov, contractors will c...
With the creation of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office by the Department of Defense in 2022, the Pentagon has signaled its intent to embrace AI technologies. Although it has yet to take such sweeping action, the U.S. intelligence community is following suit. In the 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act — the ruling that directs...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide guidance subsystems support for the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile under a potential 16-year, $1.6 billion contract. Minuteman ICBM guidance systems have recorded more than 40 million hours of operation and Boeing said Wednesday it will help maintain the readiness of such technologi...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has secured a five-year, $481.6 million contract to help the U.S. Army maintain a signals intelligence and electronic warfare system for ground military vehicles. The GDMS unit will provide sustainment services for the Prophet Enhanced Detecting System as part of the cost-no-fee, cost-plus-...
LinQuest has acquired defense technology company Hellebore Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum to expand capabilities in support of digital transformation efforts of Air Force Materiel Command and other customers in Dayton, Ohio. Beavercreek, Ohio-based Hellebore was founded in 2018 and provides DevSecOps and software engineering services in sup...
BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services unit will continue to help the U.S. Air Force integrate hardware and software into Intercontinental Ballistic Missile systems under a $651.6 million contract modification. The two-year contract entails sustaining engineering support to the Minuteman III and Sentinel Systems Directorates, the Depar...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100, said he is working on a new DOD guidance on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program as part of efforts to ensure “cloud rationalization” and enable the government to get the best mission outcome and value for...
