Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) has secured a $3.3 billion contract modification from the U.S. Army for additional 200 million filled drug production doses of its SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 vaccine, bringing the total confirmed government order to 500 million doses. The Department of Defense said Monday the biotechnology company will conduct production work at its...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon). John Mengucci joined CACI as its chief operating officer and president of U.S. operations in 2012 and served in those roles ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to award eight, 18-month grants worth potentially $5.4 million combined for the development of strategies to drive innovation in the domestic manufacturing sector. NIST said Thursday it will accept proposals for the Manufacturing USA Technology Roadmaps program through Aug. 16, 2021, from inte...
Aerospace Corp. has announced the election of Stephanie O’Sullivan, former Office of the Director of National Intelligence official, as chair of its board of trustees and Paul Selva, former head of the U.S. Transportation Command, as vice chair. The company said Thursday the board also welcomed Jim Bridenstine, former NASA administrator, and David...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business has marked the move of the U.S. Navy’s air combat training system into the production phase with the Milestone C completion. Raytheon said Wednesday Collins Aerospace also secured the first production order for the Navy’s Tactical Combat Training System Increment II, which is expected to reach initial...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Data Innovation Forum on Tuesday featuring David Spirk, chief data officer for the Department of Defense (DOD) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, as the keynote speaker. Tuesday’s Forum explored the federal government’s modernization data strategy, innovation in the artificial intelligence and machine learning data...
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) announced in September that it agreed to acquire U.K.-based semiconductor company Arm for approximately $40 billion and the chief executives of both companies explained how the transaction will help open up new opportunities and increase competition. “With this combination, we’ll be able to look at more markets at the same ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has invested in DDK Positioning in support of the Aberdeen, Scotland-based company’s efforts to expand its global precision positioning service offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported May 25. The investment builds on an existing partnership between the two companies through wh...
A Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary will deliver commercial health services to U.S. military reservists under a potential five-year, $999 million contract with Army Contracting Command. QTC Medical Services will provide in-clinic and group event medical, information technology infrastructure, customer service, security and laboratory support services u...
A joint venture between Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and Mobius will provide testing support to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential six-year, $566.67 million contract. Mobius Parsons Solutions beat out another proposer for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, level-of-effort contract via a competitive acquisition process on the SAM website, the Department of De...
