Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, will join Boeing (NYSE: BA) on Nov. 8 to serve as vice president of business development with oversight of the company’s defense, space and government services sales organization. She will directly report to Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and securi...
Forescout Technologies will continue to help the Department of Defense protect its networks and other critical assets from cyberthreats under a multiyear contract in support of DOD’s Comply-to-Connect program. The company said Thursday it will provide its cybersecurity platform to enable DOD to control and manage access to traditional information ...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure additional Sikorsky-built multirole naval helicopters along with related equipment and support services under a potential $985 million foreign military sales agreement. Australia intends to buy a dozen MH-60R Seahawk units as part of the country’s homeland defense and region...
Frank Finelli, a managing director at The Carlyle Group and a previous Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the public sector advisory board of Santa Clara, California-based enterprise data protection company Veritas Technologies. He and three other newly appointed advisory board members will advise the company on the new cybersecurity executive orde...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and SupplyCore have each received a $90 million bridge contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to continue the companies’ maintenance, repair and operations support at U.S. military facilities. Both contractors will provide MRO supplies to the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and...
Jason Weiss, a senior information technology modernization professional, has been appointed chief software officer at the Department of Defense, FedScoop reported Friday. He will lead efforts to modernize legacy applications and implement modern software development practices across DOD. Weiss joined the Pentagon in January as director of software m...
A Fluor (NYSE: FLR) subsidiary has received a $1.16 billion award from the U.S. Navy to extend propulsion work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory through fiscal year 2022. The military service exercised a cost-plus-fixed-fee option on its contract with Fluor Marine Propulsion, the Department of Defense said Thursday. FMP initially won a potential $13.0...
General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary has secured a nearly $284 million contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to provide helicopter engine supplies to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. The T-700 firm-fixed-price, requirements-type contract has a base performance period of five years and three months, ending on Dec. 31, 2026, ...
James “Hondo” Geurts, formerly assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, has been named to the advisory board of the Silicon Valley Defense Group. “I am excited to join the SVDG team as the organization continues to bridge the gap between the Department of Defense and the technology community,” Geurts, a prev...
Seven companies have secured positions on a potential five-year, $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy for construction work primarily within the area of operations of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast. Gilbane Federal, Hensel Phelps Construction, The Korte Co., Mortenson Construction, ...
