Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will support technical refresh work on pilot and maintainer training equipment for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program under a U.S. Navy contract modification worth $122.7 million. The Department of Defense said Thursday the funds will cover training site standup, schedules, support capability and system maintenanc...
Atlas Space Operations has appointed U.S. Air Force and industry veteran John Williams as CEO and launched a new subsidiary focused on supporting government missions. Williams most recently served as vice president of real-time Earth at Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT), where he was responsible for the development of the company’s ground station-as-a-ser...
The U.S. Air Force has selected AllSource Global Management, Filius, R2C and SierTek to perform a range of depot support services at three military locations through Jan. 17, 2030. An indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a $90 million aggregate ceiling was awarded to the companies for production operations and overhead services as w...
The U.S. Air Force made a $5.5 billion modification to an existing deal with Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), for the sustainment of F-117 aircraft engines. The award increases the value of the project to $8 billion and extends the expected completion date to September 2027, the Department of Defense said...
Kevin Toner, former managing director of treasury, economics and commerce at Mitre, has been elevated to the role of vice president of the organization’s Center for Government Effectiveness and Modernization. He will lead the team that supports work programs and emerging technologies under the federally funded Center for Enterprise Modernizati...
VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC) has secured a potential five-year, $565 million contract from U.S. Air Force to help maintain the service branch’s C-5 aircraft fleet. The contractor will provide supplemental depot capability for the military transport aircraft under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Thursd...
Executive Mosaic CEO and Wash100 Founder Jim Garrettson formally handed a Wash100 plaque of recognition to 2023 inductee David McKeown, senior information security officer and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity at the Department of Defense. McKeown is a first-time awardee of the Wash100, an annual selection of public and private sect...
The federal government allocates substantial financial services amounting to millions and even billions of dollars to procure a diverse range of services encompassing defense, weaponry, healthcare, cybersecurity, space missions, and more. Federal agencies enter into contracts with private companies that offer these specialized services to accomplish...
Eleven companies will continue providing the U.S. Transportation Command with logistics services under a Multimodal Transportation Program contract modification. The award has a combined option value of $178.5 million and a 24-month additional period that could bring the potential contract value to $457.2 million if exercised, the Defense Department...
The U.S. Department of Defense’s high-level technology incubation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was formed in early 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth satellite: Sputnik 1. Now, DARPA officials are seeing the viability of the Soviet Union’s space program nearly seven decades ago re...
