Nick Nilan, a 19-year veteran of Verizon (NYSE: VZ), has joined Fortress Information Security to serve as chief revenue officer. Fortress said Monday he will aim to bring the company’s cybersecurity offerings to the government and utilities sectors as well as the industrial base that supports both areas. Prior to this appointment, Nilan was sa...
Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) foundry business has established an alliance to improve semiconductor design and production to meet the requirements of national security and government applications. Initial members of the U.S. Military, Aerospace and Government Alliance formed by Intel Foundry Services include Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS), Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS...
Charles “Chuck” Harris, a nearly 35-year industry veteran, has joined the U.S. arm of engineering and professional services firm WSP as Navy program director for the federal programs business segment. He will oversee growth initiatives for the Navy program, including a $500 million contract in support of the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure...
The Department of Defense has started seeking proposals for a potential 10-year, $499 million contract to develop and test anti-tamper systems to protect critical program information and technologies from reverse engineering attempts and other adversarial efforts. The DOD Anti-Tamper Executive Agent Program Office expects the platforms to be procure...
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a potential $476.8 million contract to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems. Army Contracting Command received one offer for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract and expects work to run through Aug. 15, 2025, the Department of Defense said Friday. The service will obligate ...
Engineering and consulting services company ERC will provide support services to the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Test Center under a five-year, $640.5 million contract. ERC will help military personnel at the facility located on Aberdeen Providing Ground in Maryland to plan, analyze, report and conduct developmental and other testing activities, the ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) received the most money through Department of Defense contracts during the government’s 2021 fiscal year, according to data from the Pentagon’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. The “Fiscal Year 2021 Defense Spending by State” report...
Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed cybersecurity leader, has published his latest feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program exploring the importance of linking integrated networks with robust communications as well as command and control on the battlefield in a multi-domain environment, which has been critical in the Ukraine’...
The General Services Administration is soliciting feedback on a draft request for proposals for the third iteration of the Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract that federal agency customers can use to procure information technology platforms and services. The Alliant 3 GWAC supports Agile and other IT development methodologies and includes IT...
Once Frank Whitworth began his duties as the eighth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, he asked his team what their desired goal was for the end state, or ultimate mission completion, of the organization. They replied with a resounding, ambitious answer: “GEOINT [or geointelligence] supremacy.” At first, Whitworth was a b...
