Logistics are a crucial part of ensuring military readiness, and in an era of increasing competition, attacks on these operations can have heavy consequences. Today, many threats to logistics success are digital, and the U.S. Department of Defense is embracing data to properly address these challenges. According to Maj. Gen. David Sanford,...
Lauren Knausenberger, former chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as an executive vice president and chief innovation officer. In this capacity, she will oversee SAIC’s innovation strategy and corporate strategy function and a...
Jackie Fendrock rejoined ECS as vice president of operations and growth following a two-year stint at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal business, where she was a managing director. She assumed various leadership roles at ECS for 10 years before joining Accenture Federal Services in April 2021, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company said Thursday. Fendr...
Network connectivity company goTenna will provide U.S. Customs and Border Protection with a suite of communication technologies for operational safety and situational awareness under a four-year, $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Small Business Innovative Research Phase III award covers networking capabilities anticip...
A Noblis subsidiary was tapped by the Department of the Army to provide the Product Manager Army Watercraft Systems with a variety of system technical support services over a five-year period. In July, Noblis MSD received a potential $58 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to conduct engineering services for design, safety, qua...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has started soliciting white papers from industry stakeholders for a program that seeks to build a prototype centralized control plane for managing on-premises cloud assets, traditional virtualized platforms and host-connected tools. The DISA Hosting and Compute Center plans to award an other transaction author...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential $98.9 million contract from Washington Headquarters Services to provide translation, interpretation and transcription services to the Office of the Chief Prosecutor. The contractor will assign a team of language experts with Top Secret or higher clearance to work at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and...
Jon Krzos, a more than two-decade DCS Corp. veteran, has been promoted to vice president of financial planning and analysis at the Alexandria, Virginia-headquartered professional services provider. He will continue managing corporate financial systems and processes within the company’s finance and information technology units in his new capaci...
Leonid Capital Partners has received a credit facility worth $200 million from Chicago-based global alternative investment firm Victory Park Capital and will use it to support its inaugural institutional fund and a portfolio of loans to defense contractors. LCP is a Huntington Beach, California-based specialty credit fund founded in 2019 and is focu...
The State Department has approved South Korea’s request to procure Lockheed Martin-manufactured (NYSE: LMT) fighter jets and Pratt & Whitney-built engines from the U.S. government under a potential $5.06 billion foreign military sales agreement. The potential FMS deal includes 25 F-35 conventional take-off and landing aircraft and up to 26...
