An Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) business segment has secured an approximately $255 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for 50 million units of a rapid point-of-care antigen test for COVID-19. Abbott Rapid DX North America will produce and supply its BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card in support of the...
The U.S. Air Force has named Boeing (NYSE: BA), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to its list of sources that could support the service’s plan to rapidly prototype a stand-in attack weapon within 60 months. SiAW is an air-to-ground weapon system that c...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2020 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published a new article on Thursday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. For her latest article, GovCon Expert Kim Koster has issued a guide to help the government contracting (GovCon) community glean further...
Charles Peiffer, executive vice president and chief financial officer of PAE (Nasdaq: PAE), will assume additional responsibilities as interim president and CEO of the Falls Church, Virginia-based government services contractor starting Friday, March 19. Peiffer was appointed by the board after John Heller, a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, decided to st...
Doug Wagoner, president and CEO of LMI, received a visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on Thursday. During their meeting, Wagoner was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most significant award in all of government contracting (GovCon), to recognize his leadership and growth strategy to drive LMI’s revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic....
The State Department has named General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business as the prime contractor on a potential $210 million foreign military sale of Stryker armored fighting vehicles to North Macedonia through a government-to-government transaction. The FMS request covers 54 Strykers including the platform’s M1126 infantry carr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2021 — The U.S. Army employed a General Atomics-made suite of standalone software applications during the acceptance flight tests of a Gray Eagle Extended Range unmanned aircraft system to validate if the system could enable the service branch to achieve “supervised autonomy” in support of its aircraft oper...
Mark Aslett, CEO of Mercury Systems, was announced as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient on Tuesday for making key acquisitions and driving company revenue and value while also pushing for COVID-19 relief to address the unique challenges created in 2020. Visit ExecutiveBiz to read Mark Aslett’s full 2021 Wash100 Award profile. To vote for him...
Michael Maice, a former chief technology officer of the U.S. military’s Joint Communications Support Element, has been named CTO for ID Technologies‘ portfolio of Archon line of cloud storage and data security products. Maice will oversee the Archon product development strategy and the evaluation of new technology for potential integrati...
An AirBoss of America subsidiary has received a potential $576 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide disposable rubber gloves for the Strategic National Stockpile. AirBoss Defense Group said Tuesday the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response could place a $288 million initial order ...
