The U.S. Air Force has informed the business sector about an upcoming $255 million multiple-award contract opportunity to maintain F-16 Fighting Falcon jets for international defense customers. The F-16 International Aircraft Maintenance and Pilot Differences Training program will have a 10-year life cycle period and includes support for countries t...
Ben Palmer, who formerly led Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) mission systems business in Europe, will officially join Inmarsat on Nov. 8 to serve as president of the satellite communications provider’s maritime unit. He will succeed three-decade Inmarsat veteran Ronald Spithout and will bring 25 years of industry experience to his new pos...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is looking for small businesses that could develop courseware for contact center workers tasked with assisting beneficiaries of federal health care programs. Interested vendors have until Nov. 19 to submit proposals for the CMC Contact Center Training and Content contract opportunity, the agency said in...
Vernon Saunders, an industry veteran and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed senior vice president of the national intelligence community unit at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC). He will report to Michael LaRouche, president of SAIC’s national security and space sector and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, the co...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. Previously, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the major improvements that government contractors and their respective organizations have m...
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company is working to help customers meet their mission requirements and priorities by making investments to deliver cloud capabilities to the edge in support of mission operators. Wagner wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that...
Appgate has become a publicly traded cybersecurity company after it finalized its combination with Newtown Lane Marketing that was first announced in February. The combined company will operate as Appgate and will trade on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol “NTWN” with plans to change the symbol to “APGT” and list its common...
Swedish company Saab, Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) teammate in the U.S. Air Force T-7A trainer program, has opened a factory in West Lafayette, Indiana to manufacture the aft section of the military branch’s future pilot training system. The 100,000-square-foot facility will take over the production of the Red Hawk aircraft’s aft section fr...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) will lead an industry team to pursue a potential five-year contract to help the U.S. Air Force modernize a system that integrates third-party software applications to support joint air forces’ command and control operations. The Air Operations Center – Weapons System enables the service to perform intelligence, surveillance a...
Robert Geckle, formerly chief operating officer and general counsel at Airbus’ U.S. business arm, has been elevated to the roles of president and CEO of Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Defense News reported Thursday. The new chief executive previously held a variety of legal and compliance roles at its predecessor company. According to his Li...
