The new Peraton company has secured a potential $443.8 million contract to provide information technology platforms and support services to U.S. Strategic Command. The U.S. Air Force formally awarded the Stratcom IT Capabilities contract to HP Enterprise Services, a legacy Herndon, Virginia-based contractor whose series of merger deals led to the fo...
U.S. Transportation Command has issued a two-year, $152.6M contract modification through which 11 companies will provide multimodal transportation services within and outside the continental U.S. The contractors will perform doorstep deliveries, process customs clearances, facilitate data exchanges and clear containerized and breakbulk cargo under t...
The State Department has cleared a potential $2.43 billion foreign military sale of F-16 Block 70/72 fighter planes, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), to the Philippine government. This proposed FMS transaction covers the procurement of 10 F-16C jets, a pair of F-16D units and 15 F100-PW-229EEP or F110-GE-129D engines, the Defense Securit...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential six-year, $950 million contract to provide infrastructure, supporting tools and services for the military branch’s threat radar systems and combat training ranges. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received 20 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
The federal government has struggled to complete the required security clearance processes for its massive workforce. The security clearance backlog has recently been reduced due to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) efforts to streamline and digitize the clearance process. During Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce F...
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)...
