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Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will aim to demonstrate a space-based sensor technology for defending against hypersonic weapons and other sophisticated missile threats under a $155 million prototype award from the Missile Defense Agency. The company will perform on-orbit demonstration, launch and initial orbit testing work under Phase IIa of MDA’...

Gigit has merged with information security consulting firm Peak InfoSec in a strategy to gain a foothold in the federal cybersecurity due diligence services segment. Boulder, Colorado-based Gigit said Friday it acquired the stock, assets and intellectual property of Peak InfoSec, which will operate as the former’s wholly owned subsidiary and w...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential five-year, $3.6 billion contract to develop, test and integrate an airborne communications relay system for the U.S. Air Force. The company will also help the service branch operate and maintain payloads and ground stations of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, the Department of Defense...

Congress has approved a waiver to facilitate the confirmation of Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army general, as defense secretary under the administration of President Joe Biden, Defense News reported Thursday. The House voted 326-78 and the Senate passed in a 69-27 vote a congressional waiver that would exempt Austin from a law that requires...

Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2020 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday. In her most recent article, GovCon Expert Kim Koster shared her insight into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the influenc...

Terry Ryan, lead director at Constellis and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, took the helm of the Herndon, Virginia-based company as its CEO and executive chairman. He succeeds Tim Reardon, who stepped down from the chief executive position to “pursue other interests,” and brings more than two decades of government services industry experience t...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) will maintain and repair elevator support units aboard the U.S. Navy‘s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers under a five-year, $174.9M contract.  The Navy awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive solicitation and will obligate funding at the ...

Eight companies, including two small businesses, have won spots on a potential $750M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support waterfront construction projects within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command’s Southwest area of responsibility. Awardees will compete for task orders under the multiple-award IDIQ to build, r...