Greg Williams, most recently vice president of Chevo Consulting’s homeland security practice, has been promoted to executive VP of the management consulting firm’s homeland security and defense account. Williams brings to the role over three decades of experience offering management advisory support to homeland, civilian and defense clients, Che...
Don Graves, deputy secretary at the Department of Commerce, met with CEOs of nine space situational awareness companies to seek ideas on how industry could help build and implement a Traffic Coordination System for Space, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The free space traffic management service is one of the government’s initiatives outsi...
In today’s particularly complex and competitive geopolitical environment, the United States is reinvigorating its commitment to advancements in critical defense priority areas. New warfighter capabilities are being enabled by technologies like artificial intelligence, microelectronics and others, but the U.S. must accelerate investments in these a...
LMI has named Jared Summers, Elias Peroulas and Chris Hagner as chief technology officers of the management consulting firm’s defense, space and intelligence market areas, respectively. All three CTOs will also hold the title of vice president, while LMI VP and CTO Joseph Norton was promoted to become an SVP, the company said Friday. Summers...
The U.S. Army awarded the defense arm of Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) a $141 million firm-fixed-price contract to manufacture A2 medium tactical trucks and trailers. Contract work is projected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2024, and will be funded on a per-order basis, the Department of Defense said Friday. The service branch uses the Oshkosh...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a pair of bridge contracts worth $189 million combined from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver supplies necessary for the U.S. military to maintain, repair and operate facilities. The two contract extensions have a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
Six companies have landed spots on a potential three-year, $45 million contract to help the Defense Logistics Agency deliver medical cargo to government mission locations outside the continental U.S. DLA solicited offers to the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for medical freight transportation services among participants in the Depa...
The Department of Defense plans to add requirements to National Security Space Launch program contracts in a move to address Chinese and Russian interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. In a briefing to potential vendors of the upcoming contracting round, DOD said the next generation of rockets designed for launching spy satellites sh...
Canada will provide Ukraine with a medium-range air defense system Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will build under an approximately $302 million purchase deal between the North American country and the U.S. The National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System donation is the latest in Canada’s military assistance to Ukraine and marks the fir...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense business will manufacture hundreds of main hull structures for the Israeli defense forces’ Eitan armored personnel carrier fleet under a contract worth more than $100 million. Israel’s defense ministry expects the delivery of initial hulls to occur within an 18-month period to support the production of...
