Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $252 million follow-on contract to produce a man-portable system for U.S. Marine Corps personnel to recognize and locate targets. The company will provide low-rate initial and full-rate production services to USMC’s Next Generation Handheld Targeting System program, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Eun Young Choi, most recently senior counsel to the deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, has been named the first director of the national cryptocurrency enforcement team at DOJ. She will lead NCET in identifying, investigating and pursuing DOJ’s cases that involve the criminal use of digital currencies and other digital assets, e...
As the 2022 Wash100 Voting season continues to heat up and the support from the government contracting (GovCon) community pours in, this year’s collection of Wash100 Award winners aren’t waiting until the April 30th vote deadline to challenge one another for the top spot in the rankings. Visit Wash100.com right now to participate in Executive...
Valiant Integrated Services will provide training support to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command under a $150 million single-award contract. Dan Corbett, CEO of Valiant, said in a statement released Wednesday the company has supported USASOC and other special operations commands since 2005. “We’re honored to continue our support to this cri...
Last week, Senators introduced a new legislative package that combines aspects of the Cyber Incident Reporting act, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2021 and the Federal Secure Cloud Improvement and Jobs Act into a more comprehensive, robust and up-to-date bill that is expected to be more likely to pass into law than each...
ExecutiveBiz featured John Vollmer, CEO of Amentum and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He discussed the impact of acquiring DynCorp and PAE on Amentum’s transformational growth efforts, the recent contract awards from the U.S. Navy and Department of Energy, as well as the comp...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a $200 million contract to provide technical and engineering services to U.S. Pacific Air Forces Command. The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service disclosed the award in a SAM notice posted Monday. Under the contract, Leidos will support PACAF’s command and control, communications, com...
NASA has announced funding and collaboration opportunities for companies that want to help the agency mature technologies for use in future space missions in near-Earth and lunar destinations. The agency said Tuesday it will award as much as $200 million in Space Act Agreement funds through the Tipping Point initiative, which has supported 50 projec...
Aeyon, a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, has acquired Manufacturing Technical Solutions and Marick Group for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its technical capabilities in support of national security and civilian missions. Aeyon CEO Sunny Singh said in a statement released Monday MTS and Marick bring complementary capabili...
Scott Bauguess, a 12-year veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined cryptocurrency exchange platform operator Coinbase as vice president of global regulatory policy. He announced his new role Monday in a LinkedIn post and shared that developments in the crypto ecosystem from a policy perspective encouraged him to become involve...
