TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Michael Conlin, chief technology officer of Definitive Logic, was appointed chair of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform Task Force, a team formed by the American Society of Military Comptrollers to promote the Department of Defense’s PPBE reform awareness, ExecutiveBiz reported. Conlin...
The Department of the Air Force has undoubtedly led the U.S. military’s modernization push in the last few years — DAF leaders have long been champions of transformational changes like IT improvements, digital transformation efforts and data advancements. But officials argue that financial management, or FM, needs a bigger seat at the table in t...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a four-year, $697.9 million contract modification to conduct an engineered overhaul of USS Hartford, an attack submarine in the U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles class. Electric Boat will perform modernization, repair and maintenance services at a company facility in Groton, Connecticut, through...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded seven companies spots on a potential six-year, $762 million contract vehicle for subject matter expert services to the branch’s cloud-based data management platform. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform data preparation and architecture, data maturity model evaluation, algorithm development and dat...
Five companies will each receive a $72 million task order from the Washington Headquarters Services for non-personal services in support of the Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. Analytic Services, Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), CACI International (NYSE: CACI), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Science Applications International ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $533.8 million contract to manufacture fuze devices for U.S. Army artillery. The branch’s contracting command received two bids for the M782 multi-option fuze procurement via an online solicitation and expects work under the firm-fixed-price contract to be complete by July 26, 2027, t...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a five-year, $213.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help modernize an F-35 data center located at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The company will perform engineering, maintenance, logistics and material support work for the modernization of the Australia Canada United Kingdom Reprogramming Laboratory...
BAE Systems has secured a two-year, $299 million order from the U.S. Army to manufacture additional self-propelled howitzers and carrier ammunition-tracked vehicles. The company said Wednesday it will produce and deliver 40 sets of M109A7 howitzers and M992A3 CAT platforms and spare parts to the service branch. Work will occur at BAE locations in Pe...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has selected Obsidian Solutions Group, Veteran’s First and RMGS to provide assessments, exercises and modeling and simulation support under a potential $850 million multiple award contract. The three small businesses were among 18 offerors for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that includes ba...
Jennifer Chronis, vice president of public sector at VMware and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, recently spoke with GovCon Wire in the latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss her appointment with the company, how its workforce drives talent retention for the long term as well as the unique set of challenges on the business side of innovatio...
