The State Department has approved Qatar’s request to purchase a suite of systems designed to recognize and mitigate drone threats, as part of a potential $1 billion foreign military sales deal with the U.S. government. Qatar seeks to buy 10 units of the Fixed Site-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System and 200...
Jay Turner, who previously held executive roles at two Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiaries, has assumed the chief operating officer position at military technology provider Sigma Defense Systems. He most recently served as president of Digital Receiver Technology, a manufacturer of software-defined radio systems designed to collect, analyze and share sig...
IMT Defense has received a potential five-year, $391 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce, inspect, package and supply metal parts assemblies for 155mm M795 artillery projectiles. The Army Corps of Engineers in Newark, New Jersey, is the contracting activity and received one offer for the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defens...
Lauren Ayers, a federal and industry acquisition and procurement executive, has joined the Professional Services Council as vice president of defense and intelligence. She oversees PSC’s policy, education and advocacy efforts in support of the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community agencies. Ayers most recently worked at the Department o...
Financial services company Baird hosted its annual Government & Defense Conference on Thursday, bringing together industry leaders from across the federal sector to discuss the state of the government contracting industry, the impacts of recent sociopolitical events on the economic landscape and business strategies for the future. Bair...
Enlightenment Capital has purchased Agile Defense, a Reston, Virginia-based company focused on providing digital transformation and information technology platforms and services to the Department of Defense and other federal government customers. Agile Defense has been offering enterprise IT, DevSecOps, cloud migration support, compliance as a servi...
The State Department has cleared a potential $700 million sale of up to 72 modernized Patriot missile systems and associated equipment to the Swiss government. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed foreign military sales agreement that will include trainers, skid kits, canister consumables, launcher stati...
Top seasoned executives in the government contracting industry including NetImpact Strategies CEO Venkatapathi “PV” Puvvada, KBR Government Solutions President Byron Bright, CACI International President and CEO John Mengucci are scheduled to share insights at the 2022 Government & Defense Conference that will be hosted by Baird on No...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, met with members of the Defense Business Board and informed them about the initiatives to strengthen the defense industrial base’s resiliency, according to a DOD meeting readout released Thursday. During DBB’s first quarterly meeting for fiscal year 2023, the two-time Wash100...
Tim Reardon, a 25-year GovCon industry leader and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed CEO and chairman of the board of Sayres Defense, a portfolio company of Charlotte, North Carolina-based private equity firm Broadtree Partners. He succeeds Joel Willett as chief executive of Sayres and will oversee sourcing, investment strategy and acqu...
