General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has secured a $72.8 million contract with the U.S. Navy to retrofit 10 unmanned underwater vehicles designed to provide countermeasures against mine threats. The company said Thursday it will modify five systems of the Block 0 Knifefish surface mine countermeasure UUV, which would then be m...
Deanna Hom Lund, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS), has been appointed to the defense technology provider’s board of directors. Kratos said Thursday its board selected Lund to fill one of the two vacant seats after the nomination and governance committee unanimously rec...
A Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary has received a $92.54 million contract from the U.S. Army for the production of a transceiver and antenna system designed to provide warfighters with full-motion video, images and geospatial data for situational awareness. Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Textron Systems will work on the One System Remote Video Terminal a...
SentinelOne has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement for the cybersecurity technology vendor’s planned initial public offering. The company said Thursday it intends to list its Class A common stock using the ticker symbol “S” on the New York Stock Exchange and that details about the price range and num...
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has received a potential $100 million contract from the Defense Health Agency to perform research and engineering work for the Military Health System enterprise. Under the five-year contract, APL will help the agency maintain organizational performance of MHS in the long term and conduct st...
GovCon Wire Events, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its AI: Innovation in National Security Forum on Thursday, June 3rd. If you missed the AI: Innovation in National Security Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting ...
A consortium led by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group has agreed to acquire FireEye’s (Nasdaq: FEYE) products business, including the FireEye name, for approximately $1.2 billion in cash. Milpitas, California-based FireEye said Wednesday it expects to complete the sale by the end of the fourth quarter and the deal will separate Mandian...
Presidio has launched its U.S. government-focused business with the goal to help federal customers address information technology modernization goals. Presidio Government Solutions, known publicly as Presidio Federal, aims to support agencies in the areas of cybersecurity, cloud, automation, collaboration, augmentation and digital infrastructure, th...
Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), will serve as chair of the board of directors and succeed David Rowland, who will step down from the board and retire from the company on Sept. 1. Sweet’s appointment to assume the additional role of board chair comes two years after she was named as Accenture’s chief...
Versar, a program management business supporting federal government and commercial clients and a portfolio company of private investment firm Kingswood Capital Management, has purchased BayFirst Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of portfolio expansion initiative across the information technology and intelligence service areas. “We look ...
