Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data ...
The Department of Commerce has posted a draft solicitation for its information technology services requirement and invited potential vendors and minority-owned small businesses to participate in two separate industry days meant to further inform them about the planned acquisition. The event for future primes will be hosted virtually on Thursday whil...
The U.S. Army has placed emphasis on readiness, end-strength and modernization requirements for the future battlefield to accommodate a $3.6 billion funding drop under the service branch’s $173 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022. “This budget puts people first, maintains force readiness and continues the irreversible modernization mo...
The defense subsidiary of Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) has received a $99 million delivery order to equip additional Stryker infantry carrier vehicles with a medium caliber weapon system. Oshkosh Defense will install the 30mm MCWS on 83 vehicles for the Stryker Brigade Combat Team, as part of a potential $943 million contract awarded in June, the...
Jennifer Allen, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Triumph Group (NYSE: TGI), has been appointed to the newly created position of chief administrative officer at the Berwyn, Pennsylvania-based aerospace supplier. She will oversee human resources and information technology functions in addition to her legal and compliance respons...
Investment company Endeavour Capital has acquired Forrest Machining Inc., also known as FMI Aerostructures, which produces structural components for aerospace and defense platforms. Tim Mickael, an aerospace executive with two decades of industry experience, joined FMI Aerostructures as CEO, and all current managers will remain with the company as p...
Lisa Disbrow, chair of the audit and finance committee on LMI’s board of directors, has been elected board chair at the Tysons, Virginia-based management consultancy. She succeeds Ken Krieg, who has held the chairman role since April 2019 and has served on the board since 2008, the nonprofit company said Monday. LMI noted it saw...
CDW (Nasdaq: CDW) has purchased Focal Point Data Risk for an undisclosed sum to grow its talent development business and expand its cybersecurity consulting and identity and access management capabilities. “Adding Focal Point’s array of security consulting, customer workforce skills development and professional services capabilities expands CDWâ...
Himamauli Das, a senior managing director and co-head of CFIUS advisory services at K2 Integrity, has been named acting director of the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer at K2 Integrity and previous Wash100 awardee, said in a statement Tuesday...
Leonardo‘s U.S. defense subsidiary has purchased Ascendant Engineering Solutions, a producer of gimbals that allow sensors or cameras to rotate and change direction, in a move to offer integrated sensing platforms in the domestic military sector. Arlington, Virginia-based Leonardo DRS said Thursday it plans to combine its electro-optical and i...
