The U.S. Army plans to launch a competition for a potential $1 billion multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as part of a push to speed up the migration of existing systems to the cloud, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. Raj Iyer, the Army’s chief information officer and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the servi...
Naval Sea Systems Command intends to extend the fifth ordering period and increase by $389 million the ceiling amount of multiple-award contracts for the sustainment of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships homeported in San Diego. The proposed increase will bring the total amount of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to $1....
Steve Shpock, formerly a vice president of Stellant Systems, has been elevated to the chief operating officer role at the defense electronics company. He has more than 35 years of radio frequency and microwave business experience and will be responsible for driving operational performance across Stellant-run manufacturing and engineering facili...
Todd Hughes, former senior vice president of technology of BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI), has been appointed VP and chief innovation officer at autonomous software provider Scientific Systems Company Inc. Hughes will lead SSCI’s efforts to grow its work in the artificial intelligence-powered mission autonomy software area, the company said Thur...
Veritas Capital has agreed to acquire a CAES division that manufactures radiation-hardened microelectronic products and subsystems intended for space operations. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the pending acquisition of CAES Space Systems is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, Veritas said Thursday. Mike Elias, a seni...
Al Maillet, formerly a vice president at Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has been appointed chief revenue officer at endpoint security company Lynx Software Technologies. He will report to Lynx CEO Tim Reed and manage strategic account management, sales and go-to-market functions in his new position, the company said Thursday. While at Mercury, Mail...
ExecutiveBiz featured Anthony Verna, chief growth officer at Cubic Mission & Performance Solutions, in its recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He discussed his new responsibilities as general manager of the company’s Rugged IoT business unit, the focus areas and recent growth initiatives of Cubic as well as the efforts...
Michael Donley, director of administration and management at the Department of Defense, has created the information management and technology directorate within the office of the DOD secretary and appointed Danielle Metz, most recently deputy DOD chief information officer for the information enterprise, to lead the directorate. Metz’s appointment ...
Executives from government contracting and private equity firms met Thursday at the Raymond James 2022 Defense & Government Conference to share their perspectives on the federal market’s current environment and investors’ appetite for GovCon business. More than 700 attendees heard from some of the most influential individuals across ...
Shannon Miller, a nearly 25-year veteran of Jacobs (NYSE: J), has been promoted to executive vice president and head of the company’s newly formed divergent solutions business focused on delivering data platforms to customers. Jacobs said Thursday the divergent solutions segment will work with the company’s critical mission solutions and people ...
