Reggie Brothers, operating partner at AE Industrial Partners and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, has been named to the board of directors at Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS). He will serve on the board’s audit committee starting Jan. 1 and bring more than three decades of government and industry experience in advanced networking, artificial intelli...
Aerospace and defense companies CAE and Leonardo were tapped by the Canadian government to enhance its fleet of CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopters and provide flight simulators under two contracts worth up to $911 million combined. The Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade program will require Leonardo to modernize the aircraft into its most advanc...
Image by Kristi Blokhin from Shutterstock.com CACI International (Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc) is a top-tier U.S. federal government contractor based in Reston, Virginia. Most of its customers are from the defense, security, homeland, healthcare, and intelligence departments. In the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2021, the company’s c...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a draft solicitation for a potential $150 million follow-on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide logistics services to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Directorate. The Threat Reduction Logistics Services II contract has an ordering period of five years and covers support in areas...
Heather Dallara, former vice president of corporate contracts at Amentum, has been appointed to the newly created role of senior vice president of business operations at national security contractor Integral Federal. Dallara brings nearly 20 years of experience in contracts leadership and will be responsible for overseeing the company’s strate...
Ernst & Young will help the Department of the Air Force audit its general fund and working capital fund under a potential five-year, $200.2 million contract from the Defense Finance Accounting Service. The labor-hour contract provides for audit services of financial statements and examination and includes a 12-month base period that runs through...
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected six small businesses to compete for range sustainment and remediation projects under a potential $95 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy. Contractors will perform work at military installations within NAVFAC’s Southwest area of responsibilit...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved fusion ignition, a milestone that could provide insights into the development of clean fusion energy and lead to advancements in national defense. A controlled fusion experiment performed at the National Ignition Facility on Dec. 5 applied ...
A business segment of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $328.5 million contract to perform support work on Trident ballistic missile systems designed for U.S. and U.K. submarines. The company’s rotary and missions systems unit will provide support to the Strategic Weapon System Trident Fleet, integrate increment eight on shipboards a...
The U.S. Army is seeking information on commercial entities with the capability to deliver audit infrastructure and support to the Army Financial Improvement program. Army Contracting Command launched market research to identify companies that could offer personnel equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, ...
