Former State Department official Thomas Smitham has been named chief of the U.S. business development unit at aerospace and defense conglomerate Leonardo. Smitham, who most recently served as acting ambassador to Italy, will be responsible for helping grow the company’s market presence in the U.S through commercial campaigns and instituti...
The General Services Administration has released requests for proposals for Historically Underutilized Business Zone and service-disabled veteran-owned small business pools of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. GSA said Friday it will accept proposals through Nov. 4 for SDVOSB and HUBZon...
The U.S. Army is seeking additional vendors capable of providing high performance computing in support of research, development, test and evaluation efforts of Department of Defense organizations. In a SAM.gov notice for combined synopsis/solicitation, the Army Engineering Research and Development Center said it seeks to on-ramp qualified firm...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to update the review process of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. by outlining five additional national security factors that CFIUS should consider when evaluating covered transactions. The EO directs CFIUS to consider the effect of a transaction on the resilience of critical U.S. suppl...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit has secured a 10-year, $375 million contract to modernize a satellite-based air navigation system for the Federal Aviation Administration. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will refresh the technical features of and add a dual frequency operation service to the Wide-Area Augmentation System under the...
Salient CRGT, a wholly owned subsidiary of GovCIO, will provide information technology services, applications, collaboration and communication tools and end-user devices to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under a seven-year, $524 million task order, according to an announcement by GovCIO. The order, awarded through the General Services Adm...
QinetiQ was established in the United Kingdom in 2001 when the Ministry of Defence split its Defence Evaluation and Research Agency into two organizations. The smaller of the two organizations stayed in the public sector and evolved into Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, while the larger of the two was privatized and became QinetiQ. Now,...
The government of Poland has selected Boeing (NYSE: BA) to supply its AH-64E Apache aircraft for the Polish armed forces’ Kruk attack helicopter program. Boeing issued a statement Thursday saying the selection of its aircraft strengthens military ties between the U.S. and Poland by improving cooperation and interoperability between the U.S. Army, ...
An industry team led by Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has received a potential five-year, $160 million blanket purchase agreement to continue delivering enterprise construction management services to the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Augur Consulting, JGMS Government Services, Crawford Consulting Services and Longeneck...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has received a $298 million blanket purchase agreement to develop case management system applications for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Under the five-year contract, General Dynamics Information Technology will also help the administrative office engineer, operate and secure software platfo...
