Recently named senior vice president of Verizon’s public sector business Jennifer Chronis, was presented her first Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson for driving technology offerings, expanding revenue and partnering with industry leaders to drive digital transfor...
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is striving to increase security clearance efficiency by developing the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) that will replace legacy background investigation information technology (IT) systems. The NBIS is a part of the new Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework, designed to co...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has promoted 19-year company veteran Kevin “Red” Smith to succeed Orlando “OJ” Sanchez as vice president of its F-22 program. Smith will oversee efforts to develop, produce and maintain systems for the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 aircraft fleet in his position, Lockheed said Tuesday. Prior to this appointment, he ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $578 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to manufacture 14 extended-range Chinook helicopters for the British air force. The company said Tuesday it aims to deliver H-47 heavy-lift aircraft units to the U.K. starting in 2026 under the foreign military sales contract and that country will be the...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced key appointments as the technology company moves to establish two business units and restructure its data platform group into two groups – datacenter and artificial intelligence and network and edge. Greg Lavender, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at VMware (NYSE: VMW)...
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific has awarded Dell Marketing and Insight Public Sector six-month contracts worth $317 million combined under a blanket purchase agreement to help the Department of the Navy obtain software licenses. The two awards are part of the Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative and will give DON components ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $169.46 million contract from the U.S. Army to support a long lead effort for the full-rate production of lot 12 Apache attack helicopters. Services will take place at the company’s facility in Meza, Arizona, and the estimated completion date is May 31, 2027, the Department of Defense said Monday....
Jason Sutton, program director for steel fabrication and assembly at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division, has been named chief information officer within the same division. He will succeed Brian Fields, who held the CIO post while serving as chief transformation officer and will transition to a new role as...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to award eight, 18-month grants worth potentially $5.4 million combined for the development of strategies to drive innovation in the domestic manufacturing sector. NIST said Thursday it will accept proposals for the Manufacturing USA Technology Roadmaps program through Aug. 16, 2021, from inte...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has secured a potential five-year, $61 million contract to help the Department of Defense engineer and support systems intended for irregular warfare operations. Work under the contract will include program management, analytical, administrative and operational work for the irregular warfare technical support dir...
