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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqQ1PegfpY Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Danish Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen speak to reporters in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 9, 2017. The news conference followed a meeting of senior leaders from 15 countries that are key contributors to the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria....
The decision on whether to increase U.S. forces in Afghanistan has not yet been made, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. DOD News reported that Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford said national security leaders have not presented President Donald J. Trump with Afghanistan troop recommendations for the years 2017 and beyond. ...
BAE Systems has received a potential $1.79 billion contract from the U.K.’s defense ministry to design and build a nuclear-powered attack submarine for the British navy. BAE said Wednesday that Agamemnon will be the sixth of seven Astute-class submarines to be constructed at a company facility ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has unveiled a new 861,112-square-foot logistics facility in the U.K. that will work to provide commodities and support services to the British military, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday it partnered with the U.K. defense ministry to open the $103.4 million ...
