The U.S. Air Force has selected KBR for a $58.1 million follow-on sustaining engineering task order to help the service branch identify new approaches to maintain air traffic control and landing systems. Under the five-year award, KBR will research and analyze maintenance issues that may occur during the system life cycle such as corrosion, degradat...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected five companies to compete for new construction task orders through a $950 million firm-fixed-price contract vehicle. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the awardees are BL Harbert International, the Archer Western Federal joint venture, Hensel Phelps Construction, JE Dunn Construction and Turner Co...
Recently named senior vice president of Verizon’s public sector business Jennifer Chronis, was presented her first Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson for driving technology offerings, expanding revenue and partnering with industry leaders to drive digital transfor...
Private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management has acquired Austin Brockenbrough &d Associates to create a new engineering and consulting business that will serve public and private sector customers. Richmond, Virginia-based Brockenbrough and Prime Engineering, a portfolio company of Godspeed Capital, will merge into a new entity called Prime A...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2021 — Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will provide its millimeter-wave 5G network to help Robotic Research enable operations of autonomous shuttles at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego as part of the 90-day program, ExecutiveBiz reported June 3. Robotic Research’s nSight Vault storage service is planned to...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, reported on Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks speaking about the Department of Defense’s move to create a Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve to facilitate joint warfighting concept development competition across service branches. McAleese’s new rep...
Washington, D.C.-based investment firm Enlightenment Capital has invested in Fenix Group, a Chantilly, Virginia-based provider of battlefield edge networks and integrated systems, to help the latter advance its growth strategy. “This partnership greatly enhances our ability to drive growth through expansion of our facility footprints in multiple s...
This past Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 2021 CMMC Forum to provide the government contracting (GovCon) and federal sector’s members his overview and vision of the CMMC Rollout as well as the top priorities for the board and how industry feedback will help to improve the vision behind how the organization develops for the...
Dr. Raj G. Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, discussed innovative initiatives to strengthen the service branch’s warfighting ability and create a wholly integrated and holistic approach to its IT systems and development during his keynote speech at GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum on Thursday. If you...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $472.5 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to develop and integrate F-35 aircraft weapons for the British and Italian governments. The company’s aeronautics segment will support the functional review and development test of three weapons systems on the conventional takeoff-and-landing a...
