The U.S. Army has awarded AM General a potential 10-year, $8.66 billion contract to produce up to 20,682 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles and 9,883 JLTV trailers for the joint force and foreign military sales customers. The recompete contract has a five-year base ordering period and five option years, the Army said Thursday. “From the start...
Seana Rubin, a two-decade human resources professional in the government contracting industry, has joined QinetiQ‘s U.S. subsidiary as vice president of HR. She will oversee day-to-day HR functions within the QinetiQ US organization and be responsible for implementing business talent initiatives, the company said Thursday. Most recently, Rubin...
Tom Edson, a financial manager and strategist, has joined Alpha Omega Integration as chief financial officer. He brings to the role over 15 years of experience in financial management within the technology and cybersecurity sectors and will manage finance, contracts and pricing in support of Alpha Omega’s growth initiatives, the company said Tuesd...
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has embarked on a project to develop and test an AI application to help agency users simplify contract writing and acquisition processes, Federal News Network reported Thursday. Efforts to build the Acqbot contracting platform are part of CDAO’s Tradewind – a fund...
HII (NYSE: HII) saw its fourth-quarter revenue for 2022 rise by 5 percent to $2.8 billion compared with the prior-year period’s $2.67 billion, and recorded 10.7 billion in full-year revenue, up 12.1 percent from the previous year. The military shipbuilder said Thursday it recorded approximately $3.2 billion in Q4 new contract awards and ended the...
Walsh Construction, DPR-RQ Construction, StructSure Projects, Gilbane Federal and JE Dunn Construction were tapped to provide the U.S. Army with construction services under a six-year, $900 million firm-fixed-price contract. The Department of Defense said Thursday the five contractors will compete for orders of integrated design-build initial outfit...
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell expects the company to generate revenue this year from its Starlink broadband satellite platform and Starship heavy-lift reusable launch vehicle, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Shotwell, a four-time Wash100 Award winner, added contract funds for NASA missions involving the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spac...
Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a potential $87 million contract from a subordinate unit of the U.S. Space Force to provide logistics and systems engineering support for the Mobile User Objective System program. MTSI said Wednesday it will support space-related research, development, production, launch, sustainment and testing activitie...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will provide satellite imagery products and services to U.S. allies under a five-year, $192 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is intended to support NGA’s Foreign Commercial Imagery Program covering synthetic aperture radar, 3D...
John Neuffer, president and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association, has commended the current administration and congressional leaders for enacting the CHIPS and Science Act, which he said will help strengthen U.S. national security, economy and semiconductor supply chains. Neuffer said in a statement published Tuesday that semiconductor comp...
