NASA has awarded a pair of contracts worth $253.4 million combined to General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary and MagniX USA to develop and demonstrate electrified propulsion systems intended for commercial aircraft. The two companies will participate in the Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration project within a five-year period, ...
Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE: SPR) has reorganized its operations into three business divisions – defense and space, commercial and aftermarket – and announced leadership appointments as part of efforts to diversify and focus on key growth markets. Duane Hawkins will continue to oversee the defense and space division as president and has been na...
Sandy Barsky, former information technology acquisition leader at the General Services Administration, has joined Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) as executive program director for government and education, FedScoop reported Wednesday. In this role, he will advise engineers and commercial personnel on cloud platforms for the federal government market and educati...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) has received seven awards on the General Services Administration’s 10-year ASTRO acquisition vehicle for manned, optionally manned and unmanned platforms and support services. Bruce Crawford, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and senior vice president of strategic development at Jacobs’ critical mission solutions busine...
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Dell Technologies, will lead a panel discussion on the role of artificial intelligence in homeland security during GovCon Wire’s Oct. 7 virtual event. Chehreh was named first CTO for the Dell Federal business in September 2015 to help the technology company bring mi...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and Noblis have won spots on a five-year, $200 million contract to provide technical assistance to a Department of Transportation office focused on exploring technologies for potential integration into vehicles and road infrastructure. The Federal Highway Administration named the awardees on the Technical Support Serv...
The General Services Administration has released updated Sections L and M covering proposal submission instructions and evaluation criteria of a draft request for proposals for the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for small information technology businesses. GSA said Friday the changes made to Sections L and M of the draft Polaris RFP wer...
Chris Hegedus, a former vice president at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) where he will apply his 25 years of experience in enterprise operations, business growth and program management to his new responsibilities as a senior executive adviser, G2Xchange FedCiv reported F...
The House on Thursday voted 316-113 to pass a $777.9 billion defense policy bill that would increase service members’ salary by 2.7 percent and fund 13 additional combat ships, The Wall Street Journal reported. The proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022 reflects a 5 percent increase, or approximately $37.5 billion, in def...
Ryan McCarthy, formerly the secretary of the U.S. Army and previous Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of advisers at Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity and systems engineering services provider Millennium. The company said Thursday that McCarthy will apply his defense community experience to advise the company’s executive team on corp...
