Five companies won positions on a potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to repair, maintain and modernize existing and new versions of the Landing Craft Air Cushion fleet of the U.S. Navy. The $41.25 million amphibious landing craft project was awarded to Epsilon Systems Solutions, Gulf Copper and Manufacturing, Tecni...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ERAPSCO, a joint venture between Ultra Electronics and Sparton, $222.5 million in combined firm-fixed-price contract modifications to supply additional sonobuoys to the U.S. Navy. Lockheed and ERAPSCO will compete for individual orders to produce and deliver up to 36,000 units of ...
Leanne Caret, former CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, will provide recruitment-related consulting support to the Chicago-based aerospace and defense contractor through her consulting firm GCubed Group, the Wichita Business Journal reported Tuesday. Caret, a five-time Wash100 awardee, transitioned to the role of exec...
Jason Schick, general manager of U.S. public sector business at Confluent (Nasdaq: CFLT), said government agencies looking to deliver responsive digital services to customers should adopt open source-based technologies that could help them capture and process data in real time. Schick talked about an open source-based streaming capability called Apa...
Reggie Brothers, operating partner at AE Industrial Partners and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, has been named to the board of directors at Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS). He will serve on the board’s audit committee starting Jan. 1 and bring more than three decades of government and industry experience in advanced networking, artificial intelli...
The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services is soliciting comments and recommendations as it plans to award an other transaction agreement to an organization to create and oversee a consortium that will help DOD accelerate access to commercial technologies. The WHS acquisition directorate expects the industrial base policy consort...
The year 2022 in government contracting featured new multibillion-dollar contract awards, major recompetes and some protests over agency procurement decisions. Before we shift into 2023, our editorial team is thrilled to share the most significant federal contracts of the past 12 months from Executive Mosaic’s media portfolio. Continue reading...
Humana (NYSE: HUM) and TriWest Healthcare Alliance have won $136 billion in contracts from the Defense Health Agency to provide managed care support services for service personnel, retirees and their families in the East and West regions in the U.S. as part of the Tricare program. The T-5 managed care support contracts will take effect...
Aerospace and defense companies CAE and Leonardo were tapped by the Canadian government to enhance its fleet of CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopters and provide flight simulators under two contracts worth up to $911 million combined. The Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade program will require Leonardo to modernize the aircraft into its most advanc...
NV5 Global (Nasdaq: NVEE) has agreed to acquire the commercial geospatial technology and software business of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX). The all-cash transaction for L3Harris’ Visual Information Solutions business is expected to close in the first half of 2023, pending regulatory approvals, NV5 said Thursday. Established in 1977, VIS has a...
