ExecutiveBiz featured Scott Recinos, senior vice president of homeland security market at LMI, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He shared his strategic goals for the coming year including maintaining the company’s support to Department of Homeland Security customers. The Q&A also tackled potential new market...
Sigma7, a risk information and services provider backed by Growth Catalyst Partners, has acquired data and software company Intelligence Fusion in a strategy to create an integrated offering meant to help customers worldwide to gain insight into global security threats. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and Sigma7 plans to combin...
The U.S. Army’s Capability Sets were introduced in 2021 in order to lay out a roadmap for maintaining a modern, technologically advanced service branch that will be prepared for any challenges adversaries could bring their way. The Capability Sets are mission protocols designed to be completed and phased out every two years. This effort began wit...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential five-year, $91.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modifications, maintenance and depot-level support for the AN/AQS-20 sonar mine-hunting system and AN/MHP-20 deploy and retrieve platform. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract has a one-year base per...
Kris Perry, formerly head of research and integration division at Intelligent Waves, has elevated to the role of vice president of engineering at the company. He will bring to the role over two decades of technological insight and understanding of defense systems and missions to oversee the design and delivery of novel platforms to customers...
AM General has secured a $732.7 million contract modification to manufacture expanded capacity vehicle models of the U.S. Army’s High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. The award would extend the performance period under AM General’s firm-fixed-price requirements contract by two years and four months, according to a notice posted Fri...
Alan Chvotkin, a partner at government contracts law firm Nichols Liu, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. In his latest featured article, GovCon Expert Alan Chvotkin explores the pending legislation regarding the issue of acquisition conflicts of interest. In addition, he also discuss...
Tom Kellermann, former head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has been appointed senior vice president of cyber strategy at Los Altos, California-based vulnerability assessment software provider Contrast Security. He will oversee Contrast Security’s strategy to support cyber initiatives in the government and financial sector and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started buying weather data from satellite companies Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) and GeoOptics and kicked off testing data from a third company in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. GeoOptics and Spire were two of the three companies that secured contracts from NOAA in July to supply s...
The Department of Homeland Security plans to enlist industry expertise to help an Atlantic City, New Jersey-based federal laboratory that tests explosive and threat detection platforms. DHS issued a draft solicitation Tuesday for a potential $97 million multiple-award contract to procure technical support services for the Transportation Security Lab...
