The State Department has approved the government of Kuwait’s request to purchase maintenance, repair and sustainment services and military equipment for an estimated cost of $300 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday BAE Systems, U.S. Ordnance, DRS Technologies, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman and RTX will ser...
Government IT services provider Aretum has appointed Sean DuGuay, a senior national security and defense industry executive, as chief growth officer. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said Monday DuGuay brings to the role nearly three decades of GovCon experience and a track record of growing government contractors and driving mergers and acquisi...
Core One Solutions has acquired Calhoun International as part of a push to expand the delivery of mission-critical support to agency customers within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. With the acquisition, Core One said Tuesday Calhoun Chief Financial Officer Nesha Burrows has joined the company as vice president of national secu...
The 21st Century Cures Act, commonly referred to as the Cures Act, is entering the final year of its initially-approved nine-year run, but Department of Health and Human Services officials say they are still “hard at work” bringing it to bear. The law is meant to deliver healthcare technology and IT policy at the rapid...
A Cherokee Federal business has won a U.S. Navy contract worth $175.3 million for logistics services to help manage, operate and support the Marine Corps Consolidated Storage Program warehouse network. The Department of Defense said Thursday Cherokee Nation Government Solutions will perform work on the bridge contract in Arizona, California, North C...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index declined two straight days, finishing 0.49% lower at $5,176.36 on Friday. The index, which tracks the stocks of 30 major government contractors, registered a 2.45% loss in the first week of December. However, it was a winning week for the major U.S. equities benchmarks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its...
Andy MacMillan, a 20-year veteran of the software industry, has been appointed chief executive officer at Alteryx, an artificial intelligence software for enterprise analytics provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners. The Irvine, California-based company said Thursday MacMillan is responsible for leading pr...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Vertex Aerospace a firm‐fixed‐price contract valued at $299.9 million to provide C‐12 Huron military fleet logistics and support services. The Department of Defense said Thursday that the indefinite‐delivery/indefinite‐quantity contract has an end date of Dec. 31, 2025. Air Force Selects Vertex Aerospace Work...
HII, a global, all-domain defense provider, has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at $6.7 billion from the U.S. Air Force to provide electronic warfare engineering and technical services. The company said Thursday the contract, by far the largest deal ever secured by its Mission Technologies division, was revealed ...
ManTech has won a potential five-year, $1.4 billion task order from the Department of Defense to provide a range of advanced cyber platforms for customers within the Intelligence Community, DOD and other government agencies to meet the requirements of the Interagency Intelligence and Cyber Operations Network, or ICON. The company said Thursday it wi...
