David King, group president for Dynetics at Leidos was presented his first Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award, on Tuesday. “David King, former CEO of Dynetics and current group president with Leidos has earned his first...
Marianne Bailey, former executive at the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense, has joined Cohesity as an adviser to help the San Jose, California-based company’s federal clients manage and secure their data. “Marianne’s vast experience in the intelligence and defense communities make her a perfect fit for Cohesity as we furth...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $1.54 billion contract modification to design, build and integrate equipment in support of flight test demonstrations of the U.S. Navy’s missile system. The company’s space business will perform work in Colorado, California, Utah, Massachusetts, New York, Alabama, Maryland, Arizona, Louisiana,...
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 pandemic relief package that includes $1 billion for the Technology Modernization Fund and $150 million for the Federal Citizen Services Fund. The General Services Administration oversees the two funds and GSA said Thursday the TMF allocation will help agencies update their tec...
ID Technologies will offer computing systems and other information technology products to the U.S. Air Force through the company’s participation in the Quantum Enterprise Buy Program for the 2021 cycle. The company said Wednesday it will provide products under six major Client Computing Solutions QEB Program categories with help from its origi...
Christopher Kubasik, vice chairman, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), said the company plans to return more than $7.5 billion in cash to shareholders between 2021 and 2022, Reuters reported Thursday. Kubasik, a three-time Wash100 winner, noted L3Harris’ additional divesture proceeds of nearly $2 billio...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $115.5 million contract option from the U.S. Navy to provide weapon replaceable assemblies and support services needed for the integration of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures technology onto military aircraft. The company will perform studies, analysis and systems engineering services to install the ...
QOMPLX, a cloud-native risk analytics platforms provider, has agreed to acquire cyber intelligence company Sentar for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand into government and national security sectors. Sentar President Darren Kraabel will continue to lead the company and Bridget McCaleb, CEO of Sentar, will oversee integration efforts dur...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a $178 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force transition to an open architecture-based ground infrastructure for processing global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data. The company will provide field support services to the branch’s Distributed Common Ground System modernization ...
Dan Wright, president and chief operating officer of DataRobot since January 2020, has succeeded Jeremy Achin as CEO of the Boston-based enterprise artificial intelligence technology developer. Wright assumed the CEO role as the company aims to drive business growth and adoption of its AI platform offering, DataRobot said Wednesday. “Over the last...
