Penelope Prett, a senior managing director of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), has been promoted to chief information officer in a move that takes effect Dec. 1. She will succeed Andrew Wilson, who will continue to work with Accenture through January 2020, the company said Wednesday....
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded BFBC a one-year, $260.5M contract for barrier wall system contruction services at the U.S. Air Force’s Barry M. Goldwater bombing range in Arizona....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a four-year, $184.6M contract modification to set up a capability for repairing systems of lot 11 F-35 low-rate initial production units for U.S. military and non-Department of Defense entities....
Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, said the Reston, Va.-based defense contractor expects to start building the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine by the end of 2020, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday....
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has received a five-year, $132M task order from the U.S. Army to create, integrate and engineer software for the service branch's Distributed Common Ground System....
Coral Gables, Fla.-based data center provider Cyxtera Technologies has announced plans to separate its cybersecurity business to form a standalone company that will operate as AppGate....
Spire Global has established an office in Washington, D.C., to serve as a hub for the cloud analytics company to develop enterprise platforms designed to support government space data requirements. The D.C. facility represents Spire's third office in the country and its sixth worldwide....
Twenty-seven companies have landed spots on a blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to provide cloud services to the militay branch's LevelUP cyber factory....
The U.S. Postal Service has selected NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) to provide an artificial intelligence-based technology platform to support package data processing at the agency....
A joint venture between Metis and Celestar has won a $100M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency's administrative functions....
