A Day & Zimmermann subsidiary has received a five-year, $123 million contract to protect equipment and personnel at the Department of Energy’s emergency crude oil storage infrastructure. SOC said Wednesday it will provide protective force services to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve program under the contract from SPR prime contractor Fluor...
Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services provider, has acquired Volant Associates for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of IT offerings for agency clients across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Volant’s leadership team will stay and oversee a new division within Oct...
Johns Hopkins University will provide technology research and development services to the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear enterprise under a potential 10-year, $530 million contract. USAF issued a $23.7 million task order for the Maryland-based university to conduct R&D efforts associated with the branch’s future Ground-Based Strategic Dete...
Will Roper, former acquisition chief at the U.S. Air Force and three-time Wash100 winner, has been named CEO of Volansi, four months after he joined the cargo drone manufacturing company’s board of directors. He succeeds Volansi founder Hannan Parvizian, who has transitioned to new roles as chief technology officer and product architect, the c...
The U.S. Army has released a solicitation for administration and maintenance services in support of supercomputers at several Department of Defense centers that provide hardware, software, data storage and other resources to a High Performance Computing computational environment. According to the SAM.gov notice posted Thursday, the Army Corps of Eng...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) on Friday wrapped up its acquisition of Halfaker and Associates for $250 million cash as part of a move to expand its portfolio of digital transformation offerings and capability to help the government meet its health care mission. Nazzic Keene, CEO of SAIC and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner,...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $1.80 billion contract to perform recurring logistics work for domestic and international military customers that received F-35 air systems. The company’s aeronautics segment will conduct depot activation, ground maintenance, supply chain management and initial training efforts as part of the unde...
Thomas Ayres, former U.S. Air Force general counsel who oversaw the legislation that created the Space Force, has been named chief legal officer and general counsel of Voyager Space Holdings. The Denver-based company said Tuesday that Ayres’ appointment is another of Voyager’s major staff announcements that include Jim Bridenstine, former NASA a...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the meetings of President Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that ...
An ASRC Construction subsidiary has won a $133 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to pave road and airfield surfaces at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. ASRC Earthworks beat five other proposers to the paving project via an Alaska District 8(a) business development program set-aside compet...
