A Tutor Perini (NYSE: TPC) subsidiary has secured three contracts worth $164.1 million combined to provide a range of construction and repair services in support of federal and military projects. The U.S. Coast Guard awarded Perini Management Services Inc. a pair of task orders totaling $132.5 million to help rebuild hurricane-damaged facilities and...
Donald Upson, who served as Virginia’s first secretary of technology from 1998 to 2002, was selected as the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America’s Technology Good Scout Award recipient in 2001. Upson’s former position in the Commonwealth of Virginia was the country’s first cabinet-level post that combine...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
Naval Sea Systems Command intends to extend the fifth ordering period and increase by $389 million the ceiling amount of multiple-award contracts for the sustainment of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships homeported in San Diego. The proposed increase will bring the total amount of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to $1....
Richard Knop, former co-head of the government and defense group at BB&T Capital Markets, was selected as the 2007 Technology Good Scout Award recipient from the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Knop is known for cofounding Windsor Group, a middle-market mergers and acquisitions firm that BB&T acquired in January 2...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has finalized its purchase of EverWatch from investment firm Enlightenment Capital, as part of efforts to accelerate mission delivery and technology development cycles in support of national security customers. Booz Allen said Friday the acquisition gives the company access to EverWatch’s cleared personnel and exper...
The U.S. Army plans to compete four Care of Supplies in Storage task orders in support of the Army Prepositioned Stock program among four prime contractors under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V contract, DVIDSHub reported Wednesday. These LOGCAP V contractors are Vectrus, which is being renamed V2X (NYSE: VVX) as a result of its...
SilverEdge Government Solutions, a software company backed by private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management, has acquired cloud services provider QVine in a deal aimed to complement SilverEdge’s software-as-a-service platform development work for defense and intelligence customers. The acquired company’s executive team will stay and ma...
Thales will provide an additional 4,000 two-channel handheld radios to the U.S. Army under a $100 million delivery order. The full-rate production order is the fifth award made under the Army’s Leader Radio Program for the AN/PRC-148D Improved Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radios, the company said Wednesday. This new award brings the branch’...
Reggie Brothers, former CEO of BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) and two-time Wash100 Award winner, has been named an operating partner at AE Industrial Partners. “I know firsthand the value that AEI’s operational support and strategic vision adds to its portfolio companies, and I am excited to have the opportunity to leverage my technology and defense ba...
