Jay Moorman, chief technology officer of Chesapeake Technology International, has been named CEO at the Maryland-based defense software and system development services provider. He will work closely with CTI founder Dustan Hellwig and its board of directors to drive organic growth and pursue expansion opportunities across adjacent markets that suppo...
A team of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $985.3 million contract to build and demonstrate an air-launched, scramjet-powered weapon system designed to operate at a speed greater than Mach 5. The service branch is obligating $100 million for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile procurement effor...
David Lewis, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and a previous Wash100 awardee, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as senior vice president responsible for the company’s maritime portfolio. He will oversee efforts to improve Leidos’ maritime capabilities and pursue strategic programs meant to achieve organic growth across the company’s maritime divi...
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) has promoted Tony Barrett, who most recently led the company’s cyber and engineering sector, to president and general manager of federal markets in a series of senior executive appointments to its management team. Barrett will oversee the Columbia, Maryland-based firm’s consulting, analytics, cyber and other digit...
Cognosante has been awarded a potential five-year, $217 million contract to continue providing support services for a Department of Veterans Affairs system used to manage referral and authorization processes for community care services. The award, which has one base year plus four option years, is the third VA contract for the Community Care Referra...
Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of the defense systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), intends to retire on Jan. 13, 2023, after a decadelong career at the company. Northrop said Thursday its board of directors chose Roshan Roeder, VP and general manager of the airborne multifunction sensors division under the mission ...
Ten companies will compete for vehicle production task orders from the U.S. Army’s program executive office for ground combat systems under a five-year, $1.61 billion firm-fixed-price contract. Army Contracting Command received 10 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation and will determine performance locations and fun...
The U.S. Air Force has named 30 additional vendors as awardees on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains in support of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The Department of Defense said Thursday the vendors will compete for task...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions at Deltek and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. In the latest feature, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the key factors that are shaping the government contracting (GovCon) market toda...
Tom Ferrando, former CEO of Salient CRGT, will contribute his federal market and government contracting leadership experience to help scale Edgewater Federal Solutions in his new role as executive chair of its board of directors. In a statement released Tuesday, Ferrando welcomed his responsibility to support Edgewater’s corporate and business dev...
