An Akima subsidiary has received a potential $23.9 million to help the U.S. Special Operations Command deploy and maintain a system for managing assets. Under the five-year contract, Sunik will deploy four Defense Accountability Property System modules for special operations forces, Akima said Wednesday. “DPAS plays a significant role in the f...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will design, develop and operate the spacecraft for two missions NASA selected to explore Venus as part of the agency’s Discovery Program. The space agency expects the two missions – Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging Plus or DAVINCI+ and Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSA...
Criterion Systems Controller Rick Williams and Corionna Canada, the company’s director of contracts and purchasing, have been promoted to vice president roles. Both executives have helped the Vienna, Virginia-based company mature its financial, contracting and procurement operations, Steve Mast, executive VP and chief financial officer of Crit...
Keith Nakasone, former deputy assistant commissioner of acquisition management within the information technology office at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, will join VMware (NYSE: VMW) in mid-June as a federal strategist, FedScoop reported Wednesday. He brings 32 years of government service experience to his n...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services arm has agreed to acquire analytics company Novetta from global investment firm The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its artificial intelligence, cloud and cyber capabilities in support of missions of defense, intelligence and law enforcement agency clients. Acc...
Donnie Scott, a two-decade public security and information technology industry veteran, has been named CEO of Identity and Security North America at IDEMIA. He will directly report to Pierre Barrial, president and CEO of IDEMIA Group, as he manages all businesses related to the company’s I&S North America segment, the company said Tuesday. Sco...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Learjet, a Bombardier subsidiary, a $464.8 million contract to procure an aircraft equipped with technology for airborne communications relay. The Wichita, Kansas-based company will deliver a maximum of six Bombardier Global 6000 jets that are fitted with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system, the Departm...
Vishay Precision Group (NYSE: VPG) has purchased Diversified Technical Systems, a Southern California-based provider of data acquisition and sensor technology for testing applications, in an approximately $47 million deal. Malvern, Pennsylvania-based VPG said Tuesday it will fund the payment through new borrowing and cash on hand. VPG CEO Ziv Shosha...
Three Maryland-based companies have each won a five-year, $150 million contract to update and integrate systems for the Defense Logistics Agency. Conveyor Handling, Unity Technologies and Werres beat out four other bidders for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts via a competitive acquisition process, the Depa...
Power management company Eaton (NYSE: ETN) has wrapped up its acquisition of Cobham Mission Systems as part of efforts to expand its aerospace business’ fuel systems offerings. “This acquisition, along with our prior acquisition of Souriau-Sunbank, positions our Aerospace business well for the future,” Heath Monesmith, president and chief oper...
