John Zangardi, CEO of the Redhorse Corp. and former chief information officer for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was presented his first Wash100 Award during a recent visit to the company’s office in Arlington, VA by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. First-time Wash100 Award winner John Zangardi received the most prestigious awa...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received contract modifications worth at least $41 million each from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor designs for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA exercised options on other transaction agreements awarded in Nove...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $578.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide program management, non-recurring work and training services needed to integrate F-35 aircraft systems for an unnamed international customer. The Department of Defense said Friday the full obligated amount at the time of award will come from...
The U.S. Air Force has started seeking proposals for the third iteration of a non-personal services contract vehicle to support mission requirements for range operations, vehicle launches, port operations and the Space Launch Delta 45 mission. The Cape Launch Operations and Infrastructure Support III contract will be a total small business set-aside...
The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Pratt and Whitney a $4.38 billion contract modification to manufacture engines for the U.S. military’s 15th and 16th F-35 production lots. The Raytheon Technologies-owned (NYSE: RTX) engine builder will provide a total of 152 F135-PW-100 turbofans to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the Depar...
C4 Planning Solutions, a Georgia-based managed information technology services provider, has won a potential $249 million contract to provide tactical systems support to the U.S. Marine Corps. The TSS-3 contract covers engineering services for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence platforms that U.S. forces have deployed acros...
A consortium that comprises Thales, Leonardo, Indra Sistemas and Hensoldt will provide tactical data link communication systems to U.S. and European military customers under a five-year, $338.8 million contract. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command in California awarded the contract to Paris-based Euromids as part of the Multifunctional Informa...
The federal government gives away hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts each year. In fact, government spending on contracts amounted to $682 billion in 2020, which is the highest one recorded in the last five years. However, spending data is hard to find, and it isn’t easy to get an accurate picture of where...
Over the last year, the U.S. government has cracked down on cybersecurity. Following the May 2021 issuance of the White House’s executive order on improving the country’s cybersecurity, federal agencies and their commercial service providers have been focused on complying with more stringent security standards while protecting themselves fr...
In today’s era of rapid space democratization, the biggest challenge the United States faces is being able to leverage industry partnerships at a quick enough rate to outpace its strategic competitors, according to federal space leaders. Historically, the U.S. has enjoyed a healthy lead over other countries in space; in the Apollo era, the country...
