Austal USA has received a potential $370.7M contract modification to design and construct the U.S. Navy’s 13th and 14th Expeditionary Fast Transport ships. The modification has a face value of $261.8M and definitizes contract actions for EPF 13 and 14 long lead-time materials in addition to the detail design and construction effort, the Depart...
Paul Damphousse, a 22-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former chief of advanced concepts in the Department of Defense’s National Security Space Office, has joined Spire Global as senior director of national security business development for its federal group. He brings three decades of leadership experience in the strategic business developm...
A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says BAE Systems™ U.S. electronic systems sector saw its 2018 sales rise 14 percent to $5.3B with 15.3 percent sector operating margin and operating profit of $809M. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote BAE™...
Sean Dillon, former chief technology officer of the homeland security portfolio at Accenture™s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business, has been named CTO of information technology and management consulting services provider Strategic Enterprise Solutions. SE Solutions said Thursday Dillon will be based in the company’s Tysons Cor...
James Benton, interim chief information officer at PAE since August 2018, has been named permanent CIO of the Arlington, Va.-based government services contractor. Benton will continue to oversee PAE™s information technology field support operations, global service desk and cybersecurity initiatives, the company said Monday. He said he looks for...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted discussion held Friday with the secretaries of military branches about the state of their services and priorities. Army Secretary Mark Esper said the service works to build up readiness recovery...
Textron™s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a four-year, $439.5M contract modification to build 25 lot 16 AH-1Z twin-engine attack helicopters for the U.S. Navy. Bell Helicopter will also provide 25 stores control units as part of the modification, which exercises an option under a previously awarded fixed-price-ince...
Risk Mitigation Consulting has won a potential five-year, $95M contract to assess the U.S. Navy‘s mission assurance process for infrastructure and facility-related control systems. The company will also gather and analyze data on Navy industrial control systems, utilities and supporting infrastructure to help the military servic...
United Technologies Corp.™s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a five-year, $230.1M contract from the U.S. Navy to support flight testing of a new F-35 aircraft propulsion system. Pratt & Whitney will help test F-35 Block 4 engine technology for Navy, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and non-Dep...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has received a $712.4M delivery order from the U.S. Navy to design and develop hardware for the F-35 Technology Refresh 3 system. The company will support flightworthy certification, production readiness review and fleet release of the system for use in lot 15 fighter jets, the Depar...
