The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) a potential $1.47B contract to build the first landing platform dock under the LPD-17 Flight II program. HII said Tuesday its Ingalls Shipbuilding division will perform detail design and construction of LPD 30, which will serve as the 14th vessel of the Navy’s San Antonio...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Stu Shea, president and chief executive officer of Peraton, with his third Wash100 Award win on Tuesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Shea for accelerating organic growth and providing exemplary customer service. We are pleased to present the most coveted award in government contracting t...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has appointed Wesley Kremer, head of the firm™s integrated defense systems, as president of missile systems business, and Ralph Acaba, a 33-year company veteran, as president of IDS in a move that will take effect on March 30. “Wes and Ralph each bring extensive technical and operational expertise to their new roles....
Palantir Technologies has won a potential contract worth over $800M from the U.S. Army to build and deploy a battlefield intelligence platform for warfighters, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Army selected Palantir and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) in March 2018 to help address the service™s technology requirements for the Distributed Common G...
Five companies have won contracts worth up to $350.6M combined to provide training and supplemental materials for Department of the Navy acquisition professionals. Contractors will work to help the department energize its acquisition personnel, foster teamwork, understand career path productivity and inform workforce-related decision making, accordi...
Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a potential $317M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide logistics support for the precision strike package of the U.S. Air Force’s AC-130W and AC-130J gunship platforms. SNC will perform contract work through Sept. 30, 2026, at Cannon AF Base in New Mexico and Hurlburt Field in Florida, the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 26, 2019 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will collaborate with Purdue University in Indiana to establish methods designed to enable the U.S. government to address national security threats such as cyber attacks, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The university said Thursday it will work with the management and technology ...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented David Levy, vice president of the federal government at Amazon Web Services, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award on Wednesday. Executive Mosaic is ecstatic to present the most coveted award in government contracting recognizing Levy for leading Amazon and cloud adoption initiatives...
Global satellite communications firm Inmarsat has received a $3.4B takeover offer from a consortium of private equity firms and Canada-based pension funds, Bloomberg reported Monday. Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers™ Pension Plan Board made a $7.21-per-share bid for Inmarsat thro...
Graham Smith, former chief financial officer at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named chairman of the board of directors of data management software vendor Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK). Smith has served as a board member at Splunk over the past eight years, the company said Monday. He previously held finance leadership roles at Advent Software, Vitria...
