An ASRC Federal subsidiary has booked a five-year, $90 million contract to help a National Institutes of Health organization study environmental factors affecting public health. ASRC Federal Data Solutions will provide research data management and reporting support services to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ translatio...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a $91 million task order to update hardware and software for the U.S. Navy’s V-22 aircraft logistics information technology system. The task will cover research, development, test and evaluation support to the LOG-IT product line under Naval Air Systems Command, SAIC said Tuesd...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will engineer systems for the U.S. Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missile system modernization program under a $165.9 million task order. Under the three-year award, APL will also continue to research and develop specialized functions to support the Sentinel weapon system, the Dep...
Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ‘s public sector and chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Quantum Group, was named inaugural member of the board of advisers at private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners. As advisory board members, Sovada and four other leaders from the defense and government services industry will provide Blues...
Eleven companies have been named in the latest batch of NASA’s Tipping Point partners that will develop technologies that could support lunar surface and space exploration missions. The agency said Tuesday it expects to contribute a total of $150 million to fund the projects and each award recipient will shoulder at least 10 to 25...
RTX (NYSE: RTX), formerly Raytheon Technologies, posted $18.3 billion in fiscal 2023 second quarter sales, up 12 percent from the prior-year period, and saw its adjusted earnings per share increase 11 percent to $1.29 during the quarter. The Arlington, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said Tuesday its backlog at the end of the quarter...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) have agreed to jointly propose an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft platform to the U.S. Army’s Theater Level High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne – Signals Intelligence program. Leidos said Tuesday the partnership intends to equip a pair of Bombardier Gl...
President Joe Biden has nominated Harry Coker, a more than four-decade public service veteran, to serve as the next national cyber director. The White House said Coker’s nomination was sent to the Senate on Tuesday. Coker is a senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and serves...
Pamela Rothka, a finance professional with nearly three decades of government services industry experience, has joined Empower AI as chief financial officer. She will work with Empower AI’s executive leadership team and board of directors to drive corporate financial performance, the company said Tuesday. “Her disciplined approach to fin...
Rahul Thakkar, a former Amazon Web Services managing director, has been named president of BAE Systems‘ Bohemia Interactive Simulations subsidiary. Thakkar will oversee the day-to-day operations of the military training and simulation software developer and explore potential market opportunities for the business, BISim said Tuesday. He previou...
