The State Department has approved a potential $5.6 billion foreign military sale of F-35 aircraft, munitions and related equipment to the government of the Czech Republic. The foreign buyer requested to purchase 24 units of the F-35 conventional take-off and landing variant, along with engines, advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, captive air ...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has appointed finance and technology leader David Farnsworth as chief financial officer and added Roger Krone, former chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and a 10-time Wash100 awardee, to the board as an independent director. Farnsworth will officially assume the CFO role at Mercury Systems on July 17, and will...
VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC) has secured a potential five-year, $565 million contract from U.S. Air Force to help maintain the service branch’s C-5 aircraft fleet. The contractor will provide supplemental depot capability for the military transport aircraft under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Thursd...
The U.S. Army has started seeking proposals as it plans to award basic ordering agreements under the second iteration of a program for the procurement of logistics support services. The Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise II program is a total small business set-aside procurement effort and covers services under three functional areas: mainten...
Susan Chodakewitz, former president and CEO of international economic and analytics consulting firm Nathan Associates, has been named chief growth strategy officer of technical and strategic consultancy Cadmus. Cadmus President and CEO Ian Kline said in a statement published Thursday Chodakewitz brings to the position her experience in building busi...
Ten companies won spots on a potential 10-year, $485 million contract to provide supporting equipment for the KC-46 aircraft fleets of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military customers. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ground-based support equipment will be delivered to U.S. and foreign military operating bases until June ...
The federal government allocates substantial financial services amounting to millions and even billions of dollars to procure a diverse range of services encompassing defense, weaponry, healthcare, cybersecurity, space missions, and more. Federal agencies enter into contracts with private companies that offer these specialized services to accomplish...
Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) has agreed to purchase the heads-up-display product line from Swedish defense technology manufacturer Saab in an effort to advance its avionics and safety portfolio of offerings. Saab’s HUD assets will be integrated into Honeywell Anthem, the aerospace business’ first cloud-native cockpit system customizable for a...
Alec Newell, former senior strategy and business development manager at General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business, has assumed the role of business development vice president at NetCentrics. He will help drive growth in NetCentrics’ national security and federal civilian segments through strategies for IT and mission support ...
Sintavia, a maker and supplier of thermodynamic components for defense and aerospace applications, has secured a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). Florida-based Sintavia said Wednesday it will use the equity investment to further advance the development and testing of its thermodynamic designs and components used in multicircuit...
