John Albers, president and CEO of Albers Aerospace, discussed in an Executive Spotlight interview the company’s decision to change The Alberts Group name to align with its mission and his perspective on how the acquisitions of Heritage Aviation and Unmanned Systems Inc. can accelerate its growth initiatives. “We’re taking the two platforms...
Saab has secured a $122 million modification to a contract with the U.S. Marine Corps for the production and delivery of force-on-force training systems. The modification includes a $54 million order booked in 2021 and options that would raise the potential value of the FoFTS-Next contract to $248 million, Saab said Wednesday. USMC chose the...
BAE Systems has closed its $200 million purchase of military training and simulation software developer Bohemia Interactive Simulations. BAE first announced the deal in November 2021 and the defense contractor said Monday BISim will operate under the company’s intelligence and security sector, led by 2022 Wash100 inductee Al Whitmore. The acqu...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $252 million follow-on contract to produce a man-portable system for U.S. Marine Corps personnel to recognize and locate targets. The company will provide low-rate initial and full-rate production services to USMC’s Next Generation Handheld Targeting System program, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Joseph Dunford, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general and senior managing director at Liberty Strategic Capital, has joined the board of directors of Satellogic (Nasdaq: SATL). “Drawing on his distinguished career as a national security leader, General Dunford will offer invaluable perspective and insight as Satellogic works to unlock high-resolutio...
The U.S. Army has released a request for proposals for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle follow-on contract worth potentially $7.3 billion over 10 years and set April 12 as the bid submission deadline for the recompete opportunity. JLTV is a joint program of the Army and the U.S. Marine Corps that seeks to support multiple...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to recognize Byron Bright, president of KBR’s government solutions business, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award, which is annually presented to the top 100 most influential figures across the government contracting sector for their influence in the federal landscape. Bright is recognized with his third consecuti...
Daniel Perkins, formerly the chairman and CEO of MTS Technologies, has been named into Concurrent Technologies Corporation‘s board of directors. CTC said Thursday Perkins founded and led MTS, which provided technical and logistics support to customers at the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. He has been involved in consulting e...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has won a potential 10-year, $750 million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps multichannel handheld radios for integration with joint light tactical vehicles and high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles. Marine Corps Systems Command is the contracting activity and received two offers for the firm-fixed-pric...
Michael Alberi, a business development executive in the government contracting industry, has been promoted to vice president of growth at Columbia, Maryland-based government technology provider Planned Systems International. Prior to his promotion, Alberi was director of business development for PSI’s military and veterans’ health busine...
