General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a potential $1.14 billion contract to produce and deploy up to 96 Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles for U.S. Army infantry brigades. The award of the low-rate initial production contract came days after the Army completed the MPF middle-tier acquisition rapid prototyping stage and i...
In the past few decades, geospatial intelligence has made great strides. With the advent of new modeling technologies and data analysis capabilities, geographic information systems — or GIS — are now being used in a myriad of geospatial applications, including perhaps the most important use: better understanding and combating the growing impacts...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $4.4 billion contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture and deliver up to 255 H-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the service branch and foreign military sales customers. The agreement has a base value of $2.3 billion for 120 combat assault utility helicopters and an...
Thomas Bonina, a senior vice president at Koniag Government Services, has elevated to the role of president of health information technology operating group at the Chantilly, Virginia-based federal tech services contractor, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, he oversees a team of health IT professionals focused on delivering services to the ...
Four companies have received separate contracts worth a combined $103.4 million over five years to support spaceflight and aircraft management systems at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. The Mission Enabling Services Contract consists of five individual contracts that are divided into three work segments, intended to primarily support the...
Apollo Information Systems has acquired CyberDefenses, a Texas-based managed security services provider, for an undisclosed sum to increase Apollo’s ability to help customers protect their operations from ransomware, nation-state attacks and other cyber threats. Founded in 2001, CyberDefenses offers threat intelligence, incident response, elec...
Tim Schmitt, chief development officer at Parsons (NYSE: PSN), will join the company’s executive leadership team on Aug. 1. He will continue to serve in his current role while overseeing the Centreville, Virginia-based technology services contractor’s mergers and acquisitions program, strategy and market research initiatives, Parsons said Tuesda...
Shareholders at Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) approved the company’s proposed acquisition of Inmarsat that is expected to conclude in the second half of 2022, pending regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. Richard Baldridge, president and CEO of Viasat, said in a statement released Tuesday the approval by Viasat shareholders marks t...
In today’s increasingly online world, government agencies are harnessing the power of digitization and cyber capabilities to push modernization. Now, more and more critical government systems, infrastructure and operations are online — but are these components protected? Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and a member of ...
Leonardo DRS and Israel-based RADA Electronic Industries (Nasdaq: RADA) have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction to form a public company focused on providing advanced sensing and force protection systems in the defense market. The boards of directors of both companies approved the deal and both parties expect to close the transaction in the...
