On Thursday, the country’s first National Cyber Director Chris Inglis spoke on the essential components of viable digital ecosystems, the implications of recent cybersecurity legislation and executive orders from the White House and the effort to accelerate software security in his keynote address to the Potomac Officers Club’s virtual ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a sole-source contract worth $150 million to maintain and update an integrated electronic countermeasures system on the U.S. Air Force’s B-1B bomber planes. The company’s defense systems sector will provide engineering support and perform block cycle updates to the AN/ALQ-161A Operational Flight ...
Daniel Perkins, formerly the chairman and CEO of MTS Technologies, has been named into Concurrent Technologies Corporation‘s board of directors. CTC said Thursday Perkins founded and led MTS, which provided technical and logistics support to customers at the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. He has been involved in consulting e...
A joint venture between construction firms Gilbane and Exyte has won a three-year, $278.6 million contract to build an advanced compound semiconductor laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. The JV will also construct a facility for microsystem integration activities as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of...
The federal government’s effort in mobilizing more government contractors in recent years to help the nation move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic sets a favorable precedent for the professionals in the industry. With this consistent rise of the trajectory and the government’s planned reforms to level the playing field for small bus...
Tina Kuhn, a more than three-decade government contracting industry veteran, has been named president of Maryland-based software engineering and cybersecurity company Proximas Group. In her new role, Kuhn will steward acquisition and integration pursuits intended to grow Proximas’ portfolio of technology and engagement offerings for the intelligen...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has acquired ID Technologies from investment firm The Acacia Group for approximately $225 million as part of efforts to expand its secure network modernization capabilities in support of Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and federal civilian agency customers. ID Technologies is an Ashburn, Virginia-based p...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has won a potential 10-year, $750 million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps multichannel handheld radios for integration with joint light tactical vehicles and high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles. Marine Corps Systems Command is the contracting activity and received two offers for the firm-fixed-pric...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has secured a $165 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force for production follow-on work in support of the secure mission data systems on the service branch’s F-16 fleet. The company will perform tasks as part of the third phase of the Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research program, the...
Executive Mosaic has introduced Jennifer Chronis, senior vice president of Verizon‘s public sector business, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award for her leadership in efforts to help the Department of Defense adopt 5G wireless technology. This award marks her second consecutive selection to the prestigious group of 100 executives with sta...
