LiteFighter System has won a potential four-year, $200M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide commercial-off-the-shelf shelters and tents to the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. The service-disabled veteran-owned company will perform work at various locations in Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia over a one-year base perio...
President Donald Trump intends to nominate Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to serve as Pentagon chief on a full-time basis, The New York Times reported Thursday. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, announced the president’s intention in a tweet posted Thursday. “If confirmed by the Senate, I will con...
Point Blank Enterprises has received a one-year, $92.9M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply four U.S. service branches with updated small arms protective inserts. Work under the sole-source firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract will take place in Florida through March 2021, the Department of Defense said Monday. The company...
Wilson Ariza, former vice president of health information management at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been appointed VP of the veteran and military health business at OptumServe, G2Xchange Health reported Thursday. He brings healthcare program management experience in the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to his new role at OptumServe. Before L...
American Medical Depot and Beacon Point Associates have won separate contracts worth $94M combined from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver medical or surgical supplies to U.S. military services and federal civilian agencies. DLA awarded $49M to Beacon Point and another $45M to AMD after two competitive acquisition efforts with a total of 2...
A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its sales rise 22 percent to $8.2B in the first quarter of 2019 and recorded a sector operating profit growth of 27 percent. Jim McAleese, founder and principal of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote the Falls Church, Va.-based def...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) received a potential two-year, $132.3M contract to help integrate counter-missile systems onto aircraft for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army as well as the governments of Norway and U.K. under the foreign military sales program. The undefinitized contract action covers the procurement of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure...
NexGen Composites, Sea Box and W&K Containers won contracts worth potentially $744.9M from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply the U.S. Army with intermodal and Quadcon freight containers. DLA’s land and maritime organization received four responses for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, the Departm...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Chuck Prow, president and chief executive officer of Vectrus, with his fifth Wash100 Award on Wednesday. The award comes after Vectrus was selected for the U.S. Army™s potential $82 billion LOGCAP V contract vehicle on April 12th. Executive Mosaic recognizes Prow for securing ...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented David Drabkin, chairman of the Section 809 Panel, with his first Wash100 Award on Tuesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Drabkin for his role in the realignment of the Department of Defense™s acquisition process in 2018. We are ecstatic to present the most coveted award in government ...
