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Ken Bedingfield, most recently president, chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Epirus, has succeeded Leigh Madden as CEO of the Los Angeles-based technology company. Grant Verstandig, board chairman at Epirus, said in a statement published Tuesday Bedingfield’s leadership and decades of experience will be key in implementing the ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has landed a five-year, $2.02 billion contract to update systems of the Hornet and Growler aircraft platforms for the U.S. Navy. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which includes foreign military sales, calls for the company to support configuration set requirements for the implementation of new F/A-18 and EA-18G...
The U.S. Transportation Command has tapped FedEx, Polar Air Cargo Worldwide and United Parcel Service to handle package deliveries for government agencies and contractors under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award worth $2.24 billion in total face value. The Next Generation Delivery Service-2 program requires the awardees to provide dome...
The Department of Defense has issued a request for proposals for a potential $249 million program to provide staffing support for DOD’s artificial intelligence initiatives. The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and Army Contracting Command-Rock Island plan to award 10 basic ordering agreements under the AI Talent 2.0 pr...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received all regulatory clearances needed to advance its acquisition of Link 16, the tactical data link product line of Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT). L3Harris agreed to buy Viasat’s TDL portfolio for about $1.96 billion in October and now expects the transaction to close by Jan. 3. The Melbourne, Florida-based defens...
The Department of Energy will support research, development and demonstration efforts aimed at strengthening the security and resiliency of U.S. power grid against cyber threats and will select up to 15 cybersecurity projects for the new funding opportunity. DOE said Wednesday that potential topic areas are automated cyber attack prevention and miti...
Proposed legislation regarding the sharing of radio frequency spectrum space between government and industry could negatively impact U.S. national security, Navy Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler said in his keynote address Wednesday at GovCon Wire’s Military Services Intelligence: Plans and Priorities Forum. Trussler, who concurrently serves as deputy...
Jim Gwiazda, former vice president of the federal civilian and state, local and education business at MetTel, has joined data center services provider Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) as VP of the public sector vertical. In his new capacity, Gwiazda will lead the implementation of a go-to-market strategy for Equinix’s federal and SLED customers, accordi...
ExecutiveBiz featured Tim Deaver, vice president of strategic solutions at Mynaric, in its recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He shared the company’s focus areas and recent growth efforts including the establishment of a new facility to increase the production of communication terminals. Deaver also talked about challenge...
Philip Harlow, former president and CEO of Domo Tactical Communications, has been named president of Telesat‘s (Nasdaq: TSAT) U.S. subsidiary that offers satellite communications services to the U.S. government. The 25-year industry veteran will succeed Tom Eaton, who will retire at year end after 14 months as head of Telesat Government Soluti...
