The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies separate contracts to provide a conceptual design of the service™s future guided missile frigate. The Naval Sea Systems Command received six proposals for the firm-fixed-price contracts as part of the FFG(X) ship program, the Defense Department said Friday. NAVSEA selected Austal‘s U.S. subsid...
Mark Hughes, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has been appointed chief financial officer at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International. He will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based government acquisition support services provider’s programs, budgeting and strategic planning efforts as well as assess merger and acquisition opportun...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 9, 2018 ” Parsons has established a fellowship program for technical professionals at the company in efforts to drive engagement and innovation and help address customers’ technical challenges, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Fellows Program, which will induct the first ...
The U.S. Navy has issued the final request for proposals for multiyear contracts to procure Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers (DDG-51). The service branch said Thursday the multiyear procurement contracts will run from fiscal year 2018 through FY 2022 and will be limited for competition between Huntington Ingalls Industries (N...
Harris (NYSE: HRS) has received a $161 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to produce jammer systems for the Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures platform on the carrier-based F/A-18 aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercises a contract option for the full-rate production of 8...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 5, 2018 ” Whitney Bradley and Brown has received recognition as a certified “great workplace” based on an anonymous survey of WBB employees administered by independent analysts at the Great Place to Work Institute, GovCon Executive reported. “We do our best to provide a culture and environment that...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $235 million initial task order from the U.S. Army to modernize the Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target system. The award represents the first of five annual orders the Army would issue annually as part of a potential five-year, $2.3 billion Patriot system-of-systems engineering support contr...
Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has received a $105.2 million contract modification to produce, test and engineer all variants of the Griffin missile for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises an option under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefini...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential 20-year, $572.3 million contract to modernize and support the Canadian armed forces’ radar-guided weapon systems designed to engage aircraft, missiles and small ship threats. The Canadian government said Friday work will include updates to 21 Close-In Weapon Systems that currently support the ...
Amy Caro, formerly vice president of health solutions at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) information systems business unit, has joined Annapolis, Maryland-based federal management consulting firm Deep Water Point as a partner. Caro will oversee the company™s health care practice that supports clients such as systems integrators and small bu...
