https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chSNigV5xCw Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hosts an enhanced honor cordon welcoming Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, defense minister of the Netherlands, to the Pentagon, Aug. 15, 2017....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2017 ” A Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary will supply the government of Afghanistan with five additional ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems under a $19.6 million order from the U.S. Navy, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Defense Department said Tuesday the award to Insitu also cove...
DynCorp International has received a one-year, $217 million task order modification to continue to provide base life support and maintenance services for U.S. Army personnel in Afghanistan. The company said Tuesday it will help the Army Sustainment Command operate and maintain facilities, sewage, water and waste, electrical power, hazardous mat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2017 ” SOS International will provide information dissemination and counter-misinformation services to assist Operation Resolute Support in Afghanistan under a $9 million contract from the U.S. Army, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the contract from the Army’s deputy ch...
Ronnie Chronister, formerly director of Army, cyber and missile defense programs at Dynetics, has been named vice president of contracts at the Huntsville, Alabama-based engineering, applied science and information technology contractor. He will succeed Sallie Patterson, who will retire from Dynetics after a 19-year career t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbdBHWV8Q0 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met with Tunisian Prime Minster Youssef Chahed at the Pentagon, July 10, 2017, to discuss Tunisia™s resilience and the fight against terrorism....
The Week’s Top GovCon News Stories View this email in your browser Weekly Roundup June 12 – June 16 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Many agencies, companies, organizations and individuals were caught off-guard by the recent rise in cyber crime. Mali...
The Department of Defense is planning to send between 3,000 to 5,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, reports CBS News. An announcement on the exact number from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected in the next few days or weeks. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said that he cannot counter an increasingly violent, resurgent...
The Trump administration’s 2018 budget calls for $640 billion in military spending, $52 billion over current year spending and breaking the current budget caps. Nevertheless, the Pentagon claims it has found “efficiency” savings of $1.2 billion in savings for fiscal year 2018, reports Federal News Radio, and that this will res...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to strengthen the cybersecurity of the federal government that will require National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide a cyber-security process framework that all federal agencies comply with. The White House-released document entitled: “Presidential Executive Orde...
