Jim Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), said High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems or HIMARS and Javelin missiles are a big part of the arms package the U.S. government is providing for Ukraine to help the country defend itself against Russian invasion and that he expects to see robust orders for...
GovCon industry veteran Christine Fox Harbison will assume the role of executive vice president and chief growth officer at Mercury Systems on March 6. She will report directly to Mercury CEO Mark Aslett as she oversees the execution of the company’s growth strategy, builds up technology partnerships and leads strategic account management and capt...
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business was awarded a $245.6 million contract that covers early order material for the manufacturing of the U.S. Army’s Armored Multipurpose Vehicle fleet. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Army used its weapons and tracked combat vehicle procurement funds for fiscal 2022 and 2023 to obligate the fu...
Elbit Systems (Nasdaq: ESLT) will provide a NATO member country in Europe with artillery systems under two contracts worth $252 million combined. The company said Thursday it will supply ATMOS 155mm/52 caliber truck-mounted howitzers systems under a two-year, $119 million contract and PULS artillery rocket-launcher systems under a three-year, $133 m...
Executive Mosaic is excited to recognize the impressive achievements of Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Shyu earns the distinction — her third win total and second consecutive — due to a persistent support of technological modernization through dogged organizational maneu...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will support information technology processes at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through four contract awards worth up to $102 million combined. Under a $79 million prime contract, Leidos will help CMS migrate and maintain agency applications in hybrid cloud platforms, the company said Wednesday. The award has a pe...
The U.K. government has provisionally cleared the planned merger between Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) and British satellite services provider Inmarsat following the completion of a Phase 2 review, which found that the combined entity is likely to face competition from existing and emerging companies as the satellite communications sector expands. In Novemb...
Five companies have secured other transaction agreements ranging from $1 million to $25 million to develop prototypes of the U.S. Army’s Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Increment 2. The OTA awards are part of an industry competition seeking a new UAS platform for brigade combat teams to perform reconnaissance and surveillance work eve...
Cybersecurity has taken the global stage with the prominence of electronic warfare tactics in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but cyber aggression isn’t only a symptom of major geopolitical conflict. It can and does happen with frequency in peacetime and other more unexpected windows as well. La Monte Yarborough “While events such as t...
The U.S. Postal Service has awarded contracts to purchase battery-operated delivery vans and install charging stations at various agency facilities nationwide as part of its fleet electrification initiative. Awards cover the procurement of 9,250 E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicles from automaker Ford and more than 14,000 pieces of EV supply eq...
