Frank Lamm, a U.S. Air Force veteran with nearly two decades of technology industry experience, has joined antivirus software vendor PC Matic as vice president of federal sales. He will lead a team of sales professionals and implement the security company’s business development strategy for the federal sector, PC Matic said Tuesday. Prior to j...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics segment will develop a common reprogramming tool for the F-35 program under a $111.1 million contract modification awarded by the U.S. Navy. The business will establish network connections to create the CRT and select a service-oriented architecture to modernize software and hardware for use by aircraf...
U.S. Transportation Command is negotiating a contract modification to enable a joint venture of KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Tier One Relocation to resume transition work on the potential $6.2 billion Global Household Goods Contract. The move comes after the Court of Federal Claims denied protests of the contract award, USTRANSCOM said Friday. GHC was ...
Since the close of William LaPlante’s service as assistant secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics in 2017, he has noticed a significant and much-needed increase in the amount of prototyping and experimentation activity within the Department of Defense. Now, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has re...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has finalized its purchase of EverWatch from investment firm Enlightenment Capital, as part of efforts to accelerate mission delivery and technology development cycles in support of national security customers. Booz Allen said Friday the acquisition gives the company access to EverWatch’s cleared personnel and exper...
Four companies have each won two-year contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply retail electricity and ancillary or incidental services to multiple U.S. federal departments and military branches. DLA‘s energy organization received six offers for the procurement effort through a competitive bidding process, the Department of ...
Lily Zeleke, acting deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD is on schedule to award the potential $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract by the end of 2022, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “December 2022 is still the date we’re aiming for, for awards,” Zeleke said at an event Wedneday. “I can...
Cybersecurity has become the latest frontier in national security with the expansion and proliferation of the digital environment in recent decades. Today, cyber is also an emerging and important component of warfighting, and the U.S. government has placed a high priority on better protecting our critical information, data and cyber assets as the th...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a five-year, $225.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop the next hardware and software increment for the U.S. Navy’s Sidewinder air-to-air missile system. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Raytheon’s missiles and defense business will perform updates as part of the AIM-9X Blo...
