Garrett Yee, a retired U.S. Army major general, has been appointed to serve as vice president and general manager for the Army sector at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit. He will oversee the development and deployment of specialized technology and service offerings for the branch in areas such as cybersecurity, artifici...
Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) has received a potential $1.74 billion contract to initially produce and deliver 66 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine booster candidate to the U.S. government. The contract calls for the delivery of the initial doses in 2022 and includes options for the government to buy 234 million more doses of Moderna’s mRNA-1273.222...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a four-year, $697.9 million contract modification to conduct an engineered overhaul of USS Hartford, an attack submarine in the U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles class. Electric Boat will perform modernization, repair and maintenance services at a company facility in Groton, Connecticut, through...
Joseph Letke, founder and CEO of TKS, published his latest article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday detailing the complications and challenges that can occur between the contract award and first invoice payment during the tough RFP process and insurance verification. “As a business owner that has experienced the...
Northern New Mexico Integrated Security, a joint venture that includes Constellis‘ Centerra Group subsidiary, will provide protective services to Los Alamos National Laboratory under a potential seven-year, $592 million contract. Constellis said Monday that LANL operator Triad issued the award on behalf of the National Nuclear Security Adminis...
NASA has issued a presolicitation notice on its plan to adopt a single services contracting approach for long-term hardware production and operations of the Space Launch System. The space agency said Wednesday it intends to award the single Exploration Production and Operations Contract to Deep Space Transport, a joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: ...
The space divisions of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) have received 10-month contracts to study spacecraft designs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations program with NASA. NASA awarded $5 million to each contractor to conduct concept development and technology...
Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s space subsidiary has created a group that will advise the business on matters related to national security threats and technology trends. James “Hondo” Geurts, former acting undersecretary and acquisition chief of the U.S. Navy and a previous Wash100 awardee, will lead the national security advisory group at Sierra Space ...
The British defense ministry is working with BAE Systems and three other companies to develop a next-generation fighter demonstrator platform and expects to fly the aircraft model within the next five years. BAE leads an industry team composed of Leonardo, Rolls-Royce and MBDA in efforts to provide the U.K. military a piloted supersonic test vehicle...
In many ways, the U.S. General Services Administration effectively serves as the back office of the entire federal government. GSA is the largest property manager in the world, the third largest design and construction company in North America and the third largest fleet manager in the world — the agency even outranks the Smithsonian as...
