Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT) has agreed to acquire secure Duluth, Georgia-based communications platforms provider DataPath for an undisclosed sum to expand the Israeli company’s defense market footprint. Gilat said Thursday it expects the acquisition to conclude in the third quarter of 2023, pending approval from the Committee on Fo...
Ronald LeClere, former vice president of finance at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed as vice president of financial planning and analysis at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. subsidiary. LeClere is expected to apply his expertise in financial performance interpretation and consultation to his new role, which include...
President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal year 2024 includes $842 billion in defense spending and Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 Award recipient, said the proposed DOD budget would enable the Pentagon to continue the implementation of the National Defense Strategy and invest in capabilities that could...
Jonathan Baba, formerly a strategy and analytics partner in the defense segment at Deloitte, has been appointed senior vice president of LMI’s defense market. Baba brings to the LMI team his more than two decades of government market experience supporting both the Department of Defense and industry, the consulting company said Thursday. “...
The U.S. Navy has issued a $622 million award to TranLogistics, a transportation and supply chain services provider, as a modification of a potential 10-year multiple-award contract for husbanding services that was originally announced in 2020. The amendment to the previously awarded $2.12 billion contract adds new providers for the remaining three ...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and T-Mobile USA (Nasdaq: TMUS) have won contracts worth approximately $683.7 million combined from the Department of Veterans Affairs under the second iteration of the Enterprise Mobile Devices and Services program. The contracts awarded to Verizon and T-Mobile are valued at $448.3 million and $235.4 million, respectively, accord...
Elise Walker, senior director of engineering at ECS for the past three years, has been promoted to vice president of the company’s justice and homeland solutions business. In her new role, Walker will be in charge of technical service delivery efforts across ECS’ homeland and justice accounts, the information technology contractor said T...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has won a five-year, $99.6 million blanket purchase agreement to modernize an enterprise data management platform for the State Department’s Bureau of Medical Services. The bureau will use company-made software under Project Axiom to centralize data-driven workflows for diplomatic personnel health, read...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has secured a five-year, $88.2 million contract to develop a cloud-based information technology platform for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to find and transmit huge amounts of complex data from GEOINT sources. The General Dynamics IT business will provide software development servic...
David Goldfein, a retired U.S. Air Force general and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been named to the national security advisory board of Shield Capital. Goldfein, former Air Force chief of staff, will bring to NSAB and Shield’s portfolio companies his insights and experience in capability integration across cybersecurity, space operations and in...
