Unmanned aircraft system manufacturing company AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) has agreed to acquire Arcturus UAV in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $405M as part of efforts to expand into adjacent segments and broaden UAS portfolio and customer footprint. AeroVironment said Wednesday it expects to complete the acquisition in the f...
The General Services Administration will remove from Multiple Award Schedules contracts unmanned aircraft systems and other drones to address potential security risks associated with the use of such devices. GSA said Tuesday its decision does not cover drones approved by the Defense Innovation Unit under the Blue sUAS program, which seeks to provide...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: REGN) will supply an additional 1.25M treatment courses of an antibody cocktail composed of casirivimab and imdevimab to the U.S. government under a potential $2.63B agreement with the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services. DOD said Tuesday the biotechnology company is scheduled to deliver the medici...
The U.S. Navy has issued a new solicitation to expand the current of pool of vendors competing for task orders under the potential 10-year, $50B SeaPort Next Generation contract vehicle for professional services. A notice posted Monday on the beta SAM website says the service has launched a rolling admissions process for the SeaPort NxG...
Sehlke Consulting, an Arlington, Virginia-based management consulting and professional services firm, has promoted 30 employees in line with its leadership initiatives like the Sehlke Mentorship Program. The company said Monday selected employees elevated to executive leadership positions as well as director, partner, lead manager and consultant rol...
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated William Burns, a 33-year U.S. Foreign Service veteran and current president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to be the CIA’s next director. Burns was deputy secretary at the State Department prior to his retirement in 2014 and recognized with three Presidential Distinguished Service Awa...
SAS has secured a potential $49.9M blanket purchase agreement to provide the Food and Drug Administration access to the company’s cloud-based artificial intelligence, analytic and data management platform. The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research will implement the SAS Viya platform in efforts to update drug regulatory processes...
R. Clarke Cooper, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, said the U.S. government is expected to sign a potential $23.37B deal for the sale of Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter jets, drones and other weapons systems to the United Arab Emirates before the Trump administration ends, Defense News reported Friday. “B...
President-elect Joe Biden plans to appoint Anne Neuberger, director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, as deputy national security adviser for cybersecurity within the National Security Council, Politico reported Wednesday. In this newly created position on NSC, Neuberger will oversee the coordination of...
Altamira Technologies will serve as the new team lead on its existing contractor teaming arrangement for the General Services Administration‘s potential five-year, $997 million MEGASTAR blanket purchase agreement. “We are excited to take on this Team Lead role on MEGASTAR which provides us with greater opportunities to support NASIC’s...
