Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
An AAR‘ (NYSE: AIR) government services subsidiary and Boeing (NYSE: BA) have received contract modifications worth a combined $199 million to respectively maintain P-8A planes and engines for the U.S. Navy, Australia and other unnamed international clients. AAR (NYSE: AIR) Government Services and Boeing (NYSE: BA) will deliver ...
Four companies have each won two-year contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply retail electricity and ancillary or incidental services to multiple U.S. federal departments and military branches. DLA‘s energy organization received six offers for the procurement effort through a competitive bidding process, the Department of ...
Three companies have secured contract modifications worth up to $5.1 billion combined over a five-year period for sonobuoy production and delivery services to the U.S. Navy. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Sparton and Sonobuoy Systems, formerly Ultra USSI, can pursue individual orders through exercised options under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
Don Chaney, vice president of federal sales at Forcepoint, published his first feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday to highlight the significant challenges that the federal government is facing as its different agencies all adapt to the latest cybersecurity standards and find innovative solutions for ...
Modernization and digital transformation are linchpins of today’s GovCon landscape. As new technologies emerge, existing ones evolve and missions shift, the public sector is looking to industry more and more to help bring the U.S. government into the modern era and poise our military forces for technological dominance. Firms like Client Solut...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded three small businesses a $500 million contract modification to repair and maintain military and government facilities within the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility. DLA exercised the first of two option periods specified in a potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
5G technology is helping the U.S. government to modernize its communications and network capabilities, especially in military applications. But because so many government and military operations, weapons systems and communications rely on network connectivity today, 5G is no longer just an option, but a necessity, experts argue. “From my perspecti...
The U.S. Navy’s Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected six small businesses to compete for environmental remedial action work throughout its Pacific area of responsibility under a $120 million contract. Contractors will help the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to carry out cleanup projects as required under ...
David Clark, who previously served as vice president of operations at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Bath Iron Works subsidiary, before he left the company in 2014, will return to the role effective Sept. 26., Spectrum News reported Tuesday. He will lead a department that focuses on the construction of Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ships for the...
