The U.S. Navy has selected the Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle from Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as the military service’s next generation small UUV program of record. HII photo The branch made the selection after a rapid prototyping initiative that ran for two years and will move the Lionfish SUUV program forward with UUV...
GovCon Wire Events will host a fireside chat on Tuesday, April 5 with Mary Erickson, acting assistant administrator for weather services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and acting director of the National Weather Service. Erickson will offer insights on weather and climate forecasting and how NWS works to improve satellite, ai...
Professional services firm cBEYONData has acquired Alta Via Consulting for an undisclosed sum to establish a combined entity that will provide enterprise resource planning, financial and data analytics platforms and services to federal government customers. The combined firm will operate with over 240 employees that are focused on delivering busines...
Stephen Kirin, who joined Mitre in 2002, has been promoted to serve as vice president of enterprise operations at the nonprofit research and development contractor. The retired U.S. Army colonel will oversee business priorities and operational activities throughout the Mitre enterprise and lead management of corporate strategy, objectives and measur...
Maria Hedden, a defense and communications industry veteran with more than two decades of management experience, has joined Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) as chief operating officer. Hedden will be responsible for driving Comtech’s operational performance through production improvement, delivery scheduling and engineering initiative...
Naval Sea Systems Command has issued a $222 million modification on a sonobuoy production contract shared between Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ERAPSCO. The two companies will compete for orders and deliver up to 18,000 units of the AN/SSQ-125A series sonobuoy to the U.S. Navy under an exercised contract option, the Department of Defense said...
Amentum has received a non-competitive contract worth $99.94 million to provide maintenance and logistics support services for aircraft assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent, Maryland. The company will receive task orders to help maintain the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18, EA-18G, MH-60S, E-2C and F-16 platforms through September 2023, the...
Chico Moline, former president of national security solutions business at PAE, has been named chief information officer of Amentum and he will oversee the latter’s enterprise transformation efforts in his new position. His appointment is part of a string of senior leadership moves at Amentum after the Germantown, Maryland-based government serv...
A General Atomics business unit has been awarded a potential $585.04 million contract to help the U.S. Customs and Border Protection operate and maintain unmanned aircraft systems. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will also provide replacement aircraft, components and spares to the agency, according to an award notice posted Tuesday on SAM....
The Department of Defense plans to award cloud infrastructure services contracts worth potentially $9 billion combined in December under the five-year Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, CNBC reported Tuesday. In July 2021, DOD launched JWCC as a multivendor procurement effort to replace the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructu...
