Six companies will compete for task orders to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under a potential five-year, $240 million contract. USACE received 30 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet and expects the contractors to complete work by June 21, 2027, the Department of Defense said Tu...
Perkins Technical Services will provide power supplies to the U.S. Army under a potential five-year, $90.1 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency’s land and maritime organization. The sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract has a base performance period of three years and a pair of one-year options, the Department of Defense said Th...
Vitesse Systems, a portfolio company of venture capital firm Trive Capital, has acquired Custom Microwave Inc., a provider of high-performance antennas designed for ground and space applications, for an undisclosed sum. “The proliferation of military and commercial satellites has resulted in increased demand for high performance antennas,” David...
David Gitlin, former president and chief operating officer of Collins Aerospace, has been elected to the board of directors at Boeing (NYSE: BA). Gitlin is the seventh independent director to join Boeing’s board since April 2019 and will serve on the board’s aerospace safety and finance committees, the company said Tuesday. He has served as...
Forty early-career technologists were named to the U.S. Digital Corps as the first cohort of fellows who will work with 13 federal government agencies to help them in capacity building, cybersecurity, public experience and other impact areas. The fellows who are skilled in cybersecurity, data science and analytics, design, product management and sof...
Stephen Zhang, a nearly 13-year veteran of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and United Technologies Corp., has joined Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) to serve as the launch services provider’s first vice president of investor relations. He will manage Virgin Orbit’s overall investor relations functions and advise the leadership team on matters ...
Tim Schmitt, chief development officer at Parsons (NYSE: PSN), will join the company’s executive leadership team on Aug. 1. He will continue to serve in his current role while overseeing the Centreville, Virginia-based technology services contractor’s mergers and acquisitions program, strategy and market research initiatives, Parsons said Tuesda...
Technical and Project Engineering has appointed Debbie Gallop, formerly a vice president of NeoSystems, to serve as vice president of finance. Debbie Gallop She will oversee financial and accounting operations in her new position and will lead the implementation of Deltek’s Costpoint enterprise resource planning software for TAPE as part of her in...
Shareholders at Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) approved the company’s proposed acquisition of Inmarsat that is expected to conclude in the second half of 2022, pending regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. Richard Baldridge, president and CEO of Viasat, said in a statement released Tuesday the approval by Viasat shareholders marks t...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Westinghouse and IX are set to receive 12-month, $5 million contracts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop conceptual designs of a 40-kilowatt class fission power system for a NASA-funded lunar technology demonstration initiative. NASA said Tuesday it will collect data from industry ...
