The U.S. Navy has selected nine companies for a potential eight-year, $249.7 million contract to design, produce, install and test unmanned hardware and software platforms. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide the military branch a range of technical support services for unmanned waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures systems,...
The San Diego ship repair business of BAE Systems has secured a potential $104.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy for maintenance, modernization and repair services in support of the USS San Diego, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. The firm-fixed-price contract that provides for the LPD 22’s fiscal 2021 docking selected restric...
Ashutosh Gokhale, a 14-year Maximus (NYSE: MMS) veteran, will formally join the technical solutions division at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) on July 9 to succeed Billy Jahn as chief financial officer and vice president for business management. Gokhale will work in HII’s Fairfax, Virginia, offices to oversee financial and busi...
Banyan Software has acquired HealthRx, which sells technology designed to help government customers manage research portfolios, laboratory safety and occupational health programs. HealthRx’s Nexus platform consists of modules that support applications such as medical surveillance and workflows at federal and university research organizations, ...
The U.S. Army recently unveiled some of its initiatives to adopt cloud computing platforms in a push to transform the branch’s information technology processes. At the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the Department of Defense rolled out the Commercial Virtual Remote platform to facilitate online collaboration for telework arrangements across it...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the company’’s 2021 GovCon Success Guide and GovCon Expert, published her latest article on Tuesday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. After exploring the challenges facing supply chain and GovCon executives as the compliance requirements, such as CMMC...
Greg Pelton, most recently the chief product officer of artificial intelligence company Pryon, will join Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) to succeed the retiring Hermon Pon as chief technical officer. Pelton will oversee Iridium’s technology development and engineering functions and technical aspects of its product and service offerings, ...
Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) has won a potential three-year, $1.18 billion contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide technical support services to Department of Defense personnel who use the company’s software products. The San Jose, California-based technology conglomerate will assist DOD clients through the Cisco Smart ...
Comcast’s (Nasdaq: CMCSA) government services business has won a potential 10-year, $84.16 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and provide mission partners access to the Department of Defense Information Network through ethernet connections. DISA received six offers for the sin...
As the Department of Defense moves forward with its phased implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, several studies have offered insights within the defense industry about contractor preparations and expectations on the department’s CMMC process. A DOD interim rule, released in September 2020, provided a five-y...
