Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek, was featured on Monday in a highly informative Q&A session with ExecutiveBiz. Plexico, a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient and GovCon Expert, discussed the potential short and long-term implications of the recent cancellation of the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise D...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing air and missile defense radar systems for installation on U.S. Navy ships under a potential $781 million contract modification. This award for AN/SPY-6(V) integration and production support services has a $67.7 million face value and will reach the ceiling amount if the military branch ex...
The space defense sector continues to grow in response to foreign adversaries’ anti-satellite and space-based weaponry developments. The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to rapidly developing and deploying robust space intelligence sensors that will supply military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected six companies to compete for construction and engineering task orders to support the U.S. government’s emergency response missions worldwide under a potential $5 billion multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Contractors will provide supervision services a...
Recent developments in anti-satellite and space-based weaponry by foreign adversaries has prompted the Department of Defense (DOD) to rapidly develop and deploy secure space intelligence sensors that will arm military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages over adversaries. During Potomac Officers Club’s Space ...
Planet Labs‘ federal business arm will continue providing defense and intelligence agencies with access to Earth surface imagery collected by its constellation of Dove and SkySat satellites. The extended partnership between the National Reconnaissance Office and Planet Federal is under a renewed contract that also provides for SkySat video cap...
Leonardo DRS‘ land electronics business has secured a $105 million delivery order to supply additional mission common computing systems to the U.S. Army as part of the service branch’s combat vehicle and command post modernization efforts. This order is the third for Leonardo DRS under the Mounted Family of Computer Systems II contract, ...
Darrell Williams, a Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) vice president and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, was appointed to oversee the Logistics Commodities and Services Transformation Program, which the company manages on behalf of the U.K.’s defense ministry. As Leidos VP and managing director of LCST initiative and logistics division, Williams wil...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has appointed former Department of Defense leaders David Norquist, Ellen Lord and Dana Deasy to the newly established strategic advisory board to provide guidance as SAIC advances innovation and growth efforts. “These leaders bring years of experience in both industry and the federal government...
Ben McNeal, a 30-year U.S. Navy veteran and former program manager for Naval Enterprise Networks, has been named director of Navy and Marine Corps strategy and sales at Red Hat. Nathan Jones, vice president of the federal business at Red Hat, announced in a LinkedIn post the addition of McNeal to the software company’s public...
