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Evan Lovell, chief investment officer of the Virgin Group, has been appointed chair of the board of directors at commercial spaceflight and vehicle development company Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE). Lovell has served as the company’s interim chair since February 2022 and has two decades of global private equity and mergers and acquisitions expe...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $313.4 million contract modification to perform additional support services for the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornet service life extension program. The company will perform engineering work to extend the F/A-18 E/F’s active life by 4,000 flight hours to 10,000 and equip the aircraft with Block III avionics confi...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said that DOD will introduce a new “effort” to facilitate industry collaboration in bringing commercial space platforms to the U.S. warfighter mission, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “The goal of this effort is to incorporate [t...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks is a top voice in cybersecurity and government technology usage at large. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University focusing on risk management, homeland security technologies and, of course, cybersecurity and has won a number of distinctions over the years. Brooks recently interviewed Kelley Kiernan, t...
Global Ordnance‘ military products division will provide ammunition to the U.S. Army under a $431 million firm-fixed-price contract. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the procurement effort and will determine the funds upon issuance of individual orders, the Defense Department said Friday. DOD expects contract work to be complete ...
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Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency Director William Lietzau received his 2023 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to DCSA headquarters. This marks Lietzau’s first Wash100 recognition, which he earned through his outstanding demonstration of leadership in reforming the country’s...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business will move to boost the production capacity for F-35 Block 4 jets after the Naval Air Systems Command awarded a $172.1 million order modification under a basic ordering agreement. The company will use the money to obtain special test and tooling equipment and kits to support Next Gen Distribute...
In recent years, the U.S. government has seen a notable increase in contracting work – a shift that has caused the Defense Contract Audit Agency’s workload to grow rapidly. To keep up with the accelerated pace of today’s federal contracting activities, the DCAA has begun to reevaluate its methods and embrace change to transform into an...
KPMG has won a potential five-year, $82.4 million blanket purchase agreement to support the Defense Logistics Agency’s financial improvement and audit readiness efforts. DLA’s contracting services office received four responses to the competitive acquisition for the firm-fixed-price agreement under a multiple-award contract vehicle, the ...
