Todd Borkey, chief technology officer of Alion Science Technology, will moderate a panel discussion on space innovation efforts by the Department of Defense during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Industrial Space Defense Summit on Tuesday. Borkey is the moderator for the “How Does the DOD Leverage Commercialization of Space” panel, which ...
The Potomac Officers Club has confirmed four panelists for its 2021 Industrial Space Defense Summit on Tuesday to share their insights on critical space and defense missions. The virtual event’s panel discussion, “How Does the DOD Leverage Commercialization of Space,” will feature Col. Russell Teehan, portfolio architect director at the U....
Two joint ventures and seven independent firms have won spots on a $240 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help the military branch mitigate potentially hazardous munitions found at defense training and testing areas. USACE received 18 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract covering support services to the Military Munitions R...
A Magellan Health subsidiary has been awarded a potential seven-year, $2 billion contract to help the Department of Defense administer counseling services to military personnel and their families. Magellan Federal will deploy more than 1,200 qualified counselors to military installations located within the eastern half of the U.S., Africa and Europe...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives, announced on Thursday that Michael LaRouche, president of National Security and Space at Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), had received a Wash100 Award, the most respected award in all of GovCon, for ...
A Textron (NYSE: TXT) business segment has secured a potential five-year, $607 million contract to engineer and convert the U.S. Army’s Shadow RQ-7B unmanned aircraft system to an updated configuration. Textron Systems said Thursday it will perform technical and logistics work in addition to installing Block III features into the company-built tac...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has reported $102.4 million in contract and task order awards to help the U.S. Navy operate facilities in the United Arab Emirates and provide power generation services to U.S. Air Force personnel operating at a military air base located in Saudi Arabia. Work under a potential eight-year, $67.4 million deal with Naval...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) business segment has received a one-year, $93.2 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy maintain combat management technology used on Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships. The award covers sustainment work on the LCS Component-Based Total Ship System – 21st Century and related elements of the combat archite...
The White House intends to nominate Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, to serve as NASA administrator, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Sources said the Biden administration is expected to announce Nelson’s nomination as early as Friday, March 19. Nelson, a Democrat who served three terms in the Senate, was ranking member of the Senate Commer...
A joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has been awarded a four-year, $182.2 million contract modification to repair MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft as part of the U.S. Navy’s common configuration readiness and modernization efforts. Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will also manufacture two u...
