Lawmakers Call for $26B in Coronavirus Relief Funding to Support R&D Programs A bipartisan group of senators will seek $26 billion from the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief package to sustain research efforts and personnel in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leaders announced on Monday. The office of Sen. Edward Markey, said th...
Todd Morris, a career government contractor with more than two decades of homeland security market experience, has been appointed vice president of sales at Maximus’ (NYSE: MMS) federal business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday....
The Department of Defense has awarded Federal Resources Supply Company a potential $134M contract to deliver personal protective equipment kits at more than 15K nursing homes nationwide. Federal Resources began to ship masks, gloves, gowns and protective eyewear to skilled nursing facilities in Baltimore, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New ...
The Senate voted 62-31 Tuesday to confirm Troy Edgar, associate deputy undersecretary of management at the Department of Homeland Security, as the new chief financial officer of DHS....
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received two contracts worth $2.6B combined from the U.S. Navy to produce and deliver Harpoon and Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response weapon systems to foreign military sales customers....
The Trump administration is in discussions with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and other semiconductor firms to establish new chip factories in the U.S. to strengthen the domestic production of chips as concerns rise over the vulnerability of Asian factories as highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street J...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has distributed $450M in accelerated contract payments it received from the Department of Defense to the Bethesda, Md.-based contractor's supply chain ahead of schedule. The company said Friday it also issued $85M in advance payments to small businesses and other suppliers operating throughout 46 U.S. states....
Leidos Completes $1B Purchase of L3Harris’ Security Detection, Automation Businesses; Roger Krone Quoted Leidos has finalized its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ security detection and automation businesses for approximately $1 billion in cash, Leidos said Monday. The company also announced that Jim Moos, president of Leidos’ civil gr...
Leonard Moss, a veteran national security leader, has joined Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as chief security officer and head of the security services department. He will coordinate with APL’s executive council as he executes the lab’s strategy to evaluate and mitigate risk, maintain continuity of operations and manage inc...
Amazon Web Services has filed an agency-level protest contesting the Department of Defense’s process to reconsider some aspects of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, Federal News Network reported Thursday....
