The U.S. Navy has awarded approximately $385.3 million in two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for engineering and logistics services in support of KC-130J aerial refueling aircraft systems. Rolls-Royce will sustain and support the tanker’s propulsion system under a $228.1 million firm-fixed-price contract while General Electr...
Brian Edwards, former principal of the federal business at Capgemini, has been appointed executive director of growth at Herndon, Virginia-based cybersecurity and management consulting company Avint. The two-decade technology sector will lead capture and business development functions as Avint is aiming to help government clients modernize their cyb...
ManTech has secured a $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform engineering and technical support work for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to maintain the reliability of combat systems for training and live operations. The five-year award, won through a recompete, covers configuration management, researc...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $398.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to deliver two additional KC-46A Pegasus tankers to Japan, bringing the total number of aircraft on contract for the East Asian country to six. The firm-fixed-price modification increases the contract’s total face value to $1.3 billion and the company wil...
A team led by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured an other transaction agreement with the U.S. Army to support cyber training of up to 17,000 remote-based civilian personnel at the military branch. Amazon Web Services, Aries Security and Ultimate Knowledge Institute are part of the team that will help train Army employees bas...
Dan Klein, a corporate development executive, has assumed the position of vice president of public sector program management at Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), GovCon Wire has learned. He reports to Zain Ahmed, senior VP of Lumen’s public sector, through the company’s office in Herndon, Virginia. “Dan is a results-driven software and services...
Client Solution Architects has received a potential three-year award to help the Department of the Navy manage and sustain an information technology system that supports active-duty personnel budget execution. The Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center has tasked CSA to continue IT services for the Military Personnel, Navy Appro...
Leonardo’s U.S. subsidiary is set to start trading Tuesday on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “DRS” after the completion of its all-stock merger with Israel-based RADA Electronic Industries that was first announced in June. The closing of the transaction creates a public company that will offer sensing, network computing, force protection a...
Jay Leask, director of federal strategy for AvePoint’s (Nasdaq: AVPT) public sector business, said government agencies looking to establish a digital collaborative space to carry out its mission while protecting that space from cyberthreats should establish policies at the workspace level. Leask wrote that “it is essential to ask questions about...
QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm has completed its purchase of Avantus Federal from NewSpring Holdings in a strategy to bring innovation in the field of software, hardware and mission services to defense, intelligence, homeland security, law enforcement and civilian agencies. The $590 million deal was first announced in August and QinetiQ US said Wednesda...
