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A joint venture between the Greenlandic unit of Vectrus and construction company Permagreen has won a potential 12-year, $3.95 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to operate and maintain the Thule Air Base in Greenland. Detachment 1 of USAF’s 21st Contracting Squadron in Copenhagen, Denmark, received four proposals for the indefinite-deli...

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 governments of U.S. and Germany have agreed on the procurement of 35 F-35 Lightning II aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), in a deal aimed at strengthening the latter’s operational interoperability with allied nation partners.  The transaction covers the provision of engines, spare and replacement parts, mission equ...

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...

Coming out of his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Kent Wilcher considered three industries: oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and defense. After some brief deliberation, his answer was fairly easy. He decided to serve the defense industry because of his belief in its mission—he wanted something highly technica...

The Department of Energy has issued a draft request for proposals for the recompete of a contract to procure occupational medical services for personnel working on the Hanford Site, an inactive government-owned nuclear production complex in Washington state. DOE is seeking industry feedback on preliminary RFP documents one year ahead of the expirati...

As a collective entity united under the mission of achieving Joint All Domain Command Control, the U.S. military has intensified its spending on developing various technologies to benefit intelligence-gathering. Artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as various data-sharing and cybersecurity tools have undergone a renewed focus and in...

For three decades, Federal Resources became one of the leading government contractors supplying secure technical and safety solutions. Read on about the company’s massive contracts and joint ventures with the government. 1. DLA Special Operations Equipment Tailored Logistics Support $33,000,000,000 https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contra...

James Lackey spent three decades serving as a civilian in the Department of Defense in various capacities. He began as a flight test engineer at Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland, where he quickly ascended to a department management position. After this, Lackey was promoted to the Pentagon as a senior executive working...