T-Rex Solutions has appointed Nancy Norton, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and former director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, to the company’s national security board of advisers. The 34-year Navy veteran will be among the board members who advise T-Rex leadership on the development of information technology offerings for the def...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2021 — Frank Sturek, former chief development officer at SkyePoint Decisions, has stepped up as the company’s president, responsible for driving business strategy and growth through development of enterprisewide and targeted capabilities and acquisition of cybersecurity- and information technology-related contract...
Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, believes in the patriotism of her role as head of the Reston, Virginia-based aerospace and defense company that supports U.S. policy and the mission of the Department of Defense, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “It is our moral...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary a $735.9 million contract modification to increase the scope for low-rate initial production of lot 5 CH-53K helicopters. Sikorsky will produce nine CH-53Ks and perform logistical, programmatic and aircraft support work for the service branch, the Department of Defense...
Federal civilian and defense agencies collectively increased annual contract spending by $70 billion to $665 billion during fiscal year 2020, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. GAO found that agencies spent $35 billion to buy medical supplies and pharmaceutical products in FY 2020 as part of COVID-19 response efforts. The...
Blake Nelson, who led defense and civilian programs at service management company Pragmatics, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as vice president responsible for the management of cloud platforms and services in support of the company’s digital transformation business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. As SAIC...
Twelve companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $68 million contract to help the U.S. Navy engineer networks and systems that support net-centric military operations. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform engineering and technical work on the service branch’s afloat, ashore and airborne networks through the multip...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Comcast’s (Nasdaq: CMCSA) government services business a potential 10-year, $71.6 million contract to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and connect mission partners to the Department of Defense Information Network as part of work in Region 5 of the Commercial Ethernet Gateway program. The...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a five-year, $194.3 million task order to help U.S. Air Force researchers analyze and verify the integrity of very small electronic devices. The company said Thursday it will provide best practices for designing digital and analog systems and develop methods to detect counterfeit microelectronic products as part of the S...
The new Peraton company has secured a potential $443.8 million contract to provide information technology platforms and support services to U.S. Strategic Command. The U.S. Air Force formally awarded the Stratcom IT Capabilities contract to HP Enterprise Services, a legacy Herndon, Virginia-based contractor whose series of merger deals led to the fo...
