Intrepid has received a potential five-year, $445.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support services for the General Fund Enterprise Business System. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama launched an online solicitation and received one offer for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesda...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) reported strong top- and bottom-line results in the first quarter of 2024. The provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services to clients in the national security, engineering, and health sectors also raised its full-year guidance. Thomas Bell, CEO of Leidos and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said in a st...
The State Department has cleared Saudi Arabia’s request to procure blanket order training and related program and logistics support services from the U.S. government under a potential $250 million foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday the proposed FMS deal provides precision targeting, core tech...
Special Aerospace Services, a portfolio company of Godspeed Capital Management, has acquired Willbrook Solutions, a Huntsville, Alabama-headquartered provider of analytics services to defense, civilian and intelligence sectors. Willbrook will bring a team of 75 cleared industry professionals who support critical missile defense programs to SAS, a ne...
Luxembourg-based satellite communications company SES has agreed to buy Intelsat for approximately $3.1 billion to create a multiorbit operator that offers an expanded suite of satellite-based capabilities, greater coverage, spectrum portfolio and a ground network to serve customers worldwide. The boards of directors of SES and Intelsat have unanimo...
Anthony Vultaggio, chief technology officer at SMX, said government agencies seeking to address the complexities of security compliance and data protection across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments should look for an industry partner that can perform the job of a managed service provider and a managed security service provider. “In a traditi...
Amira Hossain, formerly senior vice president of corporate development and integration at ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), has joined Science Applications International Corp. (Nasdaq: SAIC) as SVP of corporate development. Hossain brings strategic insights and extensive negotiation capabilities and will help lead the company’s growth strategy, SAIC said in...
Sierra Nevada Corp. has won a potential $13.1 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop and produce a new aircraft to replace the service branch’s fleet of E-4B National Airborne Operations Center planes, also known as Nightwatch. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center conducted a competitive acquisition process and received two offe...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index and Wall Street ended the week strong due to a broad market rally. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, edged 0.21% higher Friday to $4,871.91, suitable for a 1.94% week-on-week gain. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 2.02% for a weekly gain of 4.2%. Alphabet (Nasdaq: G...
Brent Mitchell, a technology industry executive, has taken on the position of vice president of go-to-market at Google’s public sector arm. He announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post published Friday. Mitchell most recently served as VP of U.S. state and local government and education at Google Public Sector. In 2019, he joined Google from...
