The State Department has cleared Taiwan’s request to buy munitions, related equipment and services for F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. government through a potential $619 million foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTN) missiles and defense business will serve as principal contractors i...
Amy Norgren Salfi, formerly a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named chief strategy officer of Herndon, Virginia-based information technology and management services provider Excel Technologies. She will report directly to Excel CEO Debra Yamanaka and be responsible for helping shape the direction of the woman-owned small busin...
The U.K. government has provisionally cleared the planned merger between Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) and British satellite services provider Inmarsat following the completion of a Phase 2 review, which found that the combined entity is likely to face competition from existing and emerging companies as the satellite communications sector expands. In Novemb...
A DLH Holdings (Nasdaq: DLHC) subsidiary holds a position on a $1.7 billion blanket purchase agreement for information technology services to a National Cancer Institute component. Grove Resource Solutions is among the eight vendors eligible to offer enterprise and IT support for the NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Tech...
Cherokee Federal has acquired Criterion Systems for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its cybersecurity and information technology service offerings. Vienna, Virginia-based Criterion Systems has over 450 employees focused on providing IT infrastructure operations, cybersecurity, cloud and data center management and systems engineering ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $1.2 billion contract to develop two variants of the E-7 airborne early warning and control aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. E-7 comes with an Agile software design and open systems architecture to facilitate the integration of new capabilities and serves as an integrated command-and-control node to provide...
Five companies have secured other transaction agreements ranging from $1 million to $25 million to develop prototypes of the U.S. Army’s Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Increment 2. The OTA awards are part of an industry competition seeking a new UAS platform for brigade combat teams to perform reconnaissance and surveillance work eve...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to refine their proposed concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor under modifications to their other transaction prototype agreements with the Missile Defense Agency. The companies will further develop their interceptor concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile de...
The U.S. Postal Service has awarded contracts to purchase battery-operated delivery vans and install charging stations at various agency facilities nationwide as part of its fleet electrification initiative. Awards cover the procurement of 9,250 E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicles from automaker Ford and more than 14,000 pieces of EV supply eq...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a one-year, $146.4 million task order to perform background investigation fieldwork nationwide for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. The firm-fixed-price task order is part of a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract announced in December. DCSA used fis...
