The Missile Defense Agency has informed industry that it will conduct a small business set-aside competition and issue a single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure data support services. MDA expects to release a preliminary request for proposals for the Agency Information Management and Software Services program in the ...
An AAR‘ (NYSE: AIR) government services subsidiary and Boeing (NYSE: BA) have received contract modifications worth a combined $199 million to respectively maintain P-8A planes and engines for the U.S. Navy, Australia and other unnamed international clients. AAR (NYSE: AIR) Government Services and Boeing (NYSE: BA) will deliver ...
Meghan Gifford has been promoted from senior director to vice president of corporate development and strategy at Reston, Virginia-headquartered government technology provider Octo. She will collaborate with Octo’s executive leadership team and board of directors on overseeing the company’s strategic planning and merger-and-acquisition in...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a pair of orders worth $235 million combined to manufacture two-channel tactical radio systems for the U.S. Army. Both awards mark the second full-rate production orders for the Falcon IV AN/PRC-163 Leader and AN/PRC-158 Manpack radios under the potential 10-year, $16 billion Handheld, Manpack and Small ...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has named telecommunications industry veterans Zee Hussain and Jim Bugel as president of the company’s public sector business and president of its FirstNet program, respectively, in a string of leadership changes that will take effect on Oct. 16. Hussain will succeed Jason Porter (2022 Wash100 inductee), who will assume a new le...
Amanda “Mandy” Long, most recently vice president of information technology automation at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has joined BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) as CEO and a board member. Long succeeds Reggie Brothers, who will stay as a company adviser and transition to the role of operating partner at BigBear’s private equity owner AE Industrial Partners, the ...
Boecore, a portfolio company of private investment firm Enlightenment Capital, has purchased space systems provider Ascension Engineering Group for an undisclosed sum. AEG is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business founded in 2017 and provides satellite communications engineering platforms for NASA, the U.S. Army, U.S. Space Force, other def...
Maria Ricciardone Lee, a corporate finance executive with two decades of industry experience, has been appointed to succeed Greg Gardner as vice president of investor relations at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). She will assume the position on Oct. 17 while Gardner will stay at Lockheed until he retires on Dec. 31 after a 37-year career,...
William LaPlante, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has signed a waiver allowing DOD to accept lots 13 and 14 deliveries of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter jet. “Acceptance of the aircraft is necessary for national security interests,” LaPlante sa...
Chris Emerson, former CEO and chairman of Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, has joined AE Industrial Partners as an operating partner. He previously spent more than 25 years Airbus and currently serves as a board member at AEI portfolio companies Belcan, Firefly Aerospace and The Atlas Group, the private equity firm said Thursday. David Rowe, manag...
