Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential seven-year, $853 million contract to help the U.S. Navy field and sustain the Aegis weapon system. The company’s rotary and mission systems business will provide engineering, software development, in-service maintenance, logistics, fielding and integration support for Aegis configurations del...
Abt Associates will lead a team of commercial, academic and nonprofit organizations to carry out an $809 million project for the United States Agency for International Development under the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative. The team received a five-year contract to help USAID conduct indoor residual spray campaigns, distribute insecticide-t...
Federal IT services provider MartinFed has purchased service-disabled, veteran-owned small business Xcel Engineering. David Mathis, president and CEO of MartinFed, said in a statement released Thursday the company made the acquisition to broaden IT and engineering service offerings to the federal, state and local government sectors. “Xcel will mai...
Private investment firm Highlander Partners has acquired DZYNE Technologies, a developer of unmanned aircraft systems for domestic and international defense and government customers, for an undisclosed sum. DZYNE’s drone offering uses proprietary artificial intelligence technology and is equipped with advanced autonomous navigation, full-motio...
Dedrone has purchased Aerial Armor, a Pheonix, Arizona-based developer of drone detection systems, in a deal that would bring together both companies’ technology platforms to help advance counter-drone security. Sterling, Virginia-headquartered Dedrone said Thursday it will retain the Aerial Armor workforce, which includes CEO Russ Haugan and ...
Kathleen Creighton, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, has been named to the board of directors of ManTech. She will bring to the board decades of experience in cybersecurity, information warfare, network operations, information technology and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, ManTech said Wed...
Mark Kavanaugh, former vice president of the defense systems engineering group at KBR’s (NYSE: KBR) Government Solutions business, has been promoted to senior VP, according to his LinkedIn post published Wednesday. The SVP will lead a group of 3,500 specialists in efforts to deliver scientific, engineering and technical services to the D...
Catalina Murillo, formerly a senior vice president within Maximus‘ (NYSE: MMS) global human resources organization, has been appointed chief people officer at Intelligent Waves. She joins IW with nearly three decades of work experience in multiple industries and will oversee the company’s HR strategy in her new position, the Reston, Virg...
Ronald “Chip” Whitford, formerly a vice president of BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), has assumed new roles as senior VP, general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary at the nuclear components supplier. He succeeds Tom McCabe, who will remain with BWXT in special advisory role until his retirement on Aug. 1, the company sa...
The U.S. Coast Guard is soliciting feedback on a draft statement of work as the military branch looks to conduct a recompete of business and logistics management services to its Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Cyber and Intelligence Service Center. USCG said Tuesday in a SAM notice that the follow-on procurement effort will have a five-ye...
