Optum‘s federal business will continue to provide a range of medical services to U.S. military personnel under the $172.4 million contract modification from the Defense Health Agency. DHA extended its sole-source bridge contract with OptumServe Health Services for work at military component designated sites in U.S. states and territories, the ...
Significant leaders from the U.S. Air Force and its industry partners will discuss the information technology modernization initiatives currently driving the Air Force’s digital transformation strategy during a Dec. 15 panel discussion hosted by the Potomac Officers Club. Jim Huso, enterprise architect for CACI International, will moderate the exp...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has closed its $350 million cash acquisition of Washington, D.C.-based digital and systems engineering company Gryphon Technologies. The deal was first announced in November and ManTech said Friday the transaction brings in new programs, customers and skilled professionals for the company’s defense business...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum on Tuesday, during which prominent leaders in the public and private sectors spoke on the advanced technologies, areas of interest and urgent challenges impacting procurement and acquisition strategies within the Department of Defense as well as how industry can help drive innov...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Amentum a $461.8 million contract to run the Bahamas-based Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, which provides a testing environment for military maritime warfare research. Six proposals were submitted to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division for the AUTEC operation and maintenance contract, the Depart...
Philip Perconti, former top science and technology executive within the U.S. Army, has joined Leonardo DRS as chief technology officer. He will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor’s corporate strategy for research and development, advance innovation and broaden partnerships to facilitate the development of integrated techn...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to help the U.S. Navy modernize sensor hardware and software for Super Hornet and Growler military aircraft platforms under a $71.4 million contract modification. The award includes work to update sensor instrumentation and interfaces related to the anti-surface warfare technical baseline of F/A-18 and...
BAE Systems will continue to supply military-code GPS receiver technology to the Department of Defense and its international allies under a $316 award from the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA exercised an option on a multiyear contract awarded to the company’s U.S. subsidiary in May to procure Modernized GPS User Equipment Increment 1 Common GPS...
Lisa Gaisford, a nearly 27-year public and private sector veteran, has joined Amyx as director of federal civilian programs, according to her LinkedIn post. She joins the Reston, Virginia-based management and information technology services provider after her tenure as managing director at Washington, D.C.-based tech company Dcode, where she oversaw...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has won a potential 10-year, $46.9 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and provide mission partners access to the Department of Defense Information Network through ethernet connectivity. DISA received four offers for the single-award Commercial Ethernet Gateway...
