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Guidehouse has appointed Shannon White, a partner at the consulting firm, as head of its defense and security segment, effective Jan. 1. The McLean, Virginia-based advisory firm said Monday Chris Clarke, a partner, will succeed White as head of Guidehouse’s homeland security and law enforcement practice while Bryan Miller, also a partner, will lea...

By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek The 2025 federal fiscal year is well underway, and with the new year comes a new slate of federal government contracting opportunities for businesses to target as they look to develop their public sector pipeline. Deltek recently released the top contract vehicles in four...

Mike Bosco holds more than 20 years of military and intelligence experience, but he ended up in government contracting somewhat by chance. Upon retiring from the military in 2012, he was intent on transitioning to federal civilian work, maybe in the Intelligence Community. However, perhaps surprisingly, it takes extensive time and enduring a lot of...

Health services, IT modernization and advanced weapons systems received the bulk of this year’s contract awards. Most of the contracts have long-term periods of performance. Both startups and big corporations have offered their services to get contracting work from the government. The Department of Defense’s budget for fiscal year 2024 was $824....

The Department of the Air Force has started seeking proposals for a potential five-year, $750 million multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide professional services for U.S. Central Command Headquarters. According to a solicitation notice published Tuesday, the CENTCOM Headquarters IDIQ for Professional Services, o...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos a firm-fixed-price contract worth $987 million for F-16 fighter jet support to the Taiwanese military. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is a foreign military sales agreement, but work will be performed at the company’s facilities in Reston, Virginia, until May 2034, the Department of De...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $450.5 million foreign military sales, or FMS, contract to provide command and control capabilities to Japan’s F-15 jet fighters. The Department of Defense said Tuesday that under the sole source award, Boeing will deliver radars, self-protection toolkits and mission computers to the Japan Air Self-Defense F...

The Department of Energy has awarded five companies positions on a potential 10-year, $3.4 billion contract to procure low-enriched uranium, or LEU, from domestic commercial sources. According to award notices published Tuesday on SAM.gov, the selected vendors are American Centrifuge Operating, General Matter, Global Laser Enrichment, LIS Technologi...

Northrop Grumman has won a potential 10-year, $801 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide distributed mission operations support for combat air forces, or CAF. The Department of Defense said Monday the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio launched a competitive acquisition process and received...

Today’s complex defense landscape is shaped by growing geopolitical tensions, the meteoric rise of advanced technologies and an intensifying global competition. In Executive Mosaic’s latest video interview, reporter Summer Myatt sat down with Judi Dotson, president of the global defense sector at Booz Allen Hamilton, to learn more abou...