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...
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) will help NASA send four small satellites to low-Earth orbit for a storm observation initiative via two Electron launch missions under the Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract vehicle. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats mis...
The Defense Information Systems Agency and Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) are collaborating to launch a cloud-based telephony infrastructure in an effort to provide Department of Defense employees with virtual phone access via a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) business communication platform. Lumen was awarded a $221 million contract to deploy and operate...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has promoted 19-year company veteran Richard Guzzardi to executive director of operations, supply chain and quality, air power within its missiles and defense business, according to a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. He served as senior director of the unit’s global supply chain for more than two years ...
