The Defense Logistics Agency has kicked off a full and open competition for a potential 10-year, $3.2 billion contract vehicle for command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance supplies and services. DLA said Thursday in a solicitation notice that the multiple-award indefinite-quantity/indefinite-d...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $482.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture lot 35 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles for domestic and international defense customers. The award exercises pre-priced options on an existing contract for the production of AMRAAMs, telemetry systems and spares, the...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has hired seven former military and government officials and industry veterans to serve as partners on its Washington, D.C.-based federal global business services team. The company said Monday the key additions reflect its commitment to helping federal agencies advance information technology modernization efforts. Brian Davis, a reti...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded three companies positions on a $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply various types of commercial metal products to U.S. military branches as part of DLA’s Metals Tailored Logistics Support program. DLA received six responses for the competitive acquisition program and s...
The Senate has confirmed Heidi Shyu‘s nomination to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering, a role first held by Michael Griffin since the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act elevated it at undersecretary level. As USD(R&E), Shyu will be responsible for setting the strategy for D...
Planned Systems International has purchased Alexandria, Virginia-based technology integrator ProSphere Tech in a deal of an undisclosed sum that expands PSI’s health care information technology and cybersecurity offerings for the government sector. Founded in 2006, ProSphere works with federal customers to help them design systems, manage data...
Washington, D.C.-based technology company Babel Street has appointed former senior government officials Robert Ashley, David Glaser, Ellen McCarthy and Harry Wetherbee to its newly formed board of advisers. They will advise Babel Street’s leadership team on approaches to help customers apply its artificial intelligence-based analytics platform...
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...
Jen Easterly, head of firm resilience and the Fusion Resilience Center at Morgan Stanley, received Senate confirmation to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, three months after the White House announced her nomination for the role, Politico reported Monday. In a unanimous vote, senators approved Easterly to lea...
Karl Borden, former director of legacy and emerging programs at System High, has been appointed as the Chantilly, Virginia-based company’s vice president of science and technology protection. The 25-year security professional will manage employee and customer relations in his new position and lead S&T innovation efforts aimed at supporting...
