Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace has secured a $960.8 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to provide the service branch with Naval Strike Missiles over a five-year period. The Naval Sea Systems Command said Tuesday the Over the Horizon – Weapons System NSM will help boost coastline defense, deterrence and interoperability as well a...
Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and U.S. Army veteran, was chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as secretary of the Department of Defense, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The former infantry captain in the Army National Guard served at Guantanamo Bay and later in Iraq. He also served in Afghanistan with the...
Biometric identification is a foundational part of the United States’ immigration and transportation systems — a quick and, by many measures, secure and fraud-deterring way to confirm individuals’ identities in high-volume, high-traffic scenarios. It’s also a key way to sift through and find the rare individuals who may be a potential danger...
Mac Curtis, board chair for Cubic and an eight-time Wash100 Award recipient, was inducted into the 2024 LaFleur-Chason Hall of Fame by NVC and the Professional Services Council. PSC said Thursday Curtis, who has over 35 years in government contracting, successfully led more than 25 acquisitions approximately worth $8.5 billion in total. His accompli...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded gains in four of five trading sessions, advanced more than 1% in three days, and had its best day Wednesday with +1.99%. Friday’s closing of $5,640.35 was also its highest close. The result is a 4.9% weekly gain, GCI’s highest this year. The index, which tracks the stock performances of...
General Dynamics Information Technology has formed a new division focused on federal health, with Kamal Narang, GDIT’s senior vice president for federal health, appointed as its lead. GDIT said Thursday the Federal Health Division, which will provide consulting, technology, and mission services to the departments of Health and Human Services and V...
The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded international nongovernmental organization Kids in Need of Defense a pair of task orders under the Post Release Legal Services multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. One task order has a total value of $211 ...
Staci Peters has taken on the role of senior vice president of business services at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, a Fluor-led company, according to her LinkedIn post Thursday. Peters, a senior finance executive with a demonstrated history of working in the federal government contractor industry, assumed her new post at SRNS after serving as its...
Noble Supply and Logistics has received a Defense Logistics Agency contract modification to provide maintenance, repair and operations supplies support services worth up to $562.5 million to various facilities around the globe. The Department of Defense said Thursday the modification to the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quant...
Jason Miller, a nearly two-decade Google veteran, has joined quantum computing company PsiQuantum to serve as senior vice president of product management. Miller announced his move in a LinkedIn post Wednesday. The executive is responsible for leading PsiQuantum’s product management team, which works to provide customers with software and hard...
