Gentex has won a potential five-year, $95M contract to provide tactical headborne systems to the U.S. Special Operations Command. SOCOM received two offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract via a full and open competition and obligated $150K at the time of award. The command is procuring ballistic and no...
CGI‘s (NYSE: GIB) federal arm has won a potential 10-year, $222.9M contract to build an electronic procurement system for the Department of the Navy. The Department of Defense said Wednesday CGI Federal will provide the ePS contract writing platform for the DON to manage contracting requirements for supplies, grants, services and construc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2019 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) unveiled plans to apply a four-tiered strategy in support of the company’s effort to build a competitive edge in the hypersonic defense market, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Defense News reported Tuesday that Northrop is moving to pursue opportunities in hypersonic defens...
McAleese and Associates, a consulting firm, released a report on key takeaways from a discussion hosted by the Center for a New American Security with Army Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy and Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley of Army Futures Command on the service™s multidomain operations concept and modernization plans. Wesley discussed the development of the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 28, 2019 ” Cubic (NYSE: CUB) has been scheduled to take part in the Avalon 2019 aerospace and defense exposition in Australia this week, where it will present its technologies in training and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted discussion held Friday with the secretaries of military branches about the state of their services and priorities. Army Secretary Mark Esper said the service works to build up readiness recovery...
A new report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) posted $36.2B in full-year 2018 sales, up 17 percent from the previous year. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote in the report that the increase was primarily driven by $3.7B in ...
Thomas Lydon, formerly a senior vice president at Sabre Systems, has joined Chantilly, Va.-based technology integrator VT Group as president of the newly established aviation solutions division. He will oversee the combined business of VT Group™s global aviation services and the logistics and engineering capabilities of the newly acquired ...
Eight companies have secured contracts worth $22.5M combined to develop, manage and update a set of Open Architecture standards for the U.S. Air Force. The contractors will work as a single entity to create and offer configuration control for Universal Command and Control Interface and Open Mission systems standards, the Department of Defense report...
Howell Estes, a board member at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) since October 2017, has been named chairman of the company™s board of directors in a move that will take effect Jan. 1. He will succeed Robert Phillips, who will continue to serve on the board, the company said Thursday. “Howell’s wealth of experience in service to...
