The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $2.5 billion contract to design and construct facilities in Guam and other areas of operations of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific. NAVFAC Pacific received nine proposals for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
Aircraft components maker TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) has agreed to acquire Calspan, a technology development and testing services provider headquartered in Buffalo, New York. Cleveland-headquartered TransDigm said it expects to use cash on hand to finance the acquisition and close the transaction during its 2023 fiscal year. Calspan has approximate...
Kathleen Featheringham, a nearly two-decade veteran of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has joined Maximus (NYSE: MMS) as vice president of artificial intelligence for federal technology consulting services, according to a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. She previously led Booz Allen’s AI practice as a director and helped the government consu...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems business will produce large-caliber metal and mortar projectiles for the U.S. Army under a $1.48 billion contract modification. The award to carry out shell manufacturing work has a projected completion date of July 30, 2029, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. General Dynamics inh...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer at Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm, said multicloud environments enable government agencies to broaden their technology options and select the best cloud platform to meet their mission requirements. Payne wrote that multicloud adoption begins with the implementation of a strategy that looks at factors t...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has booked a $765.5 million cost-plus-award-fee contract to develop a high-resolution infrared imaging system for a collaborative Earth observation initiative of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Under the contract, L3Harris will build two instruments that will fly on the future Geostatio...
Judith Bjornaas, former executive vice president and chief financial officer of ManTech, has joined the board of directors at health care and public services provider DLH Holdings (Nasdaq: DLHC). DLH’s board elected Bjornaas during its annual meeting held March 9, the company said Monday. The 38-year financial management veteran of the governm...
Lisa Malloy, a nearly 14–year veteran of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), has joined BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary as senior vice president for communications. She will report directly to BAE Systems Inc. CEO Tom Arseneault and oversee business communications and community investment programs, the company said Monday. “Her work in technology a...
As emerging technologies continue to transform the nature of conflict between the U.S. and its adversaries, the intelligence community has recognized the need to accelerate the adoption of these tools in order to stay at the forefront of the competition. According to intelligence experts who came together for a panel discussion at GovCon Wire’s&nb...
Michael Herrington, former division vice president and general manager at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been appointed CEO of Arlington, Virginia-based government information technology provider Tsymmetry. He brings to his new position more than two decades of industry experience in corporate strategy development and execution and global operations leade...
