In a new report, GovCon Expert and three-time Wash100 winner Jim McAleese shares his analysis of individual budget requests by U.S. military branches as part of the $773 billion Department of Defense spending plan for fiscal year 2023. President Biden submitted a $773 billion DOD budget request to Congress in March, up 5 percent from...
Patrick Sargent, a government health services veteran and retired Army major general, has joined Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s federal business, according to a LinkedIn post. The retired Army major general joins Cerner Government Services from OptumServe, where he most recently served as SV...
Byron Bright, president of government solutions at KBR and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He talked about the key factors that led to a 27 percent year-over-year growth for KBR in fiscal year 2021 and the initiatives to capitalize on that success....
The Department of Defense is working to overcome international policy-related hurdles, data tagging challenges and training obstacles as it looks to build resilient mission partner environments and implement JADC2 on an enterprise level. These issues are becoming increasingly more urgent today as the tense geopolitical landscape continues to change,...
Louisiana-based shipyard operator Bollinger will build a mine countermeasures unmanned surface vehicle for the U.S. Navy under a potential five-year, $122.9 million contract. Naval Sea Systems Command received three bids through the SAM website for the firm-fixed-price contract, which has an initial value of $13.7 million and includes options that w...
Caelum Research has won a potential five-year, $201.1 million contract to perform data collection work for the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command received five bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation process and estimated services will conclude on April 14, 2027, the Department of Defense said Friday. The award come...
The U.S. Army has awarded 26 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $869 million contract to provide research, development and engineering support services to the service branch. The firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive fee contract also covers test and evaluation, support for biological and chemical demilitarization operations and acquisition...
William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper and a former Air Force acquisition chief, received Senate confirmation to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday. During his Senate confirmation hearing in late March, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the U...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded an additional $261.4 million to fund Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) preparations for lot 17 F-35 aircraft production. The Department of Defense said Thursday the company will obtain long-lead-time materials and support services necessary to manufacture nine carrier-based F-35 jets for the U.S. Navy and 15 c...
Alan Chvotkin, partner at Nichols Liu and member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He discussed the firm’s growth initiatives, the policy changes in acquisition regulations concerning the government contracting sector and the findings of ...
