Shawn Boykin, a former director of business development at Vencore and AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has been appointed vice president and manager of operations at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International‘s newly established operation in Huntsville, Ala. He will serve as the liaison for the acquisition management services contractorR...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has received a potential $165.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead-time materials and conduct advance construction efforts for the first Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. The company said Friday it will use contract funds to procure the ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sbzPbZb_zE A Soldier describes the fervent nature of always being on call for fire missions and how her Soldiers execute their mission while deployed using the M142 High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System at an undisclosed location in Syria, from August to September 2017. The Soldiers were firing for the Coalition™...
Oshkosh Corp.™s (NYSE: OSK) defense unit has received a $484 million order to supply the U.S. Army with 1,574 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles and associated installed and packaged kits. JLTV recently completed multiservice operational test and evaluation with the Army and U.S. Marine Corps to check its readiness to support troops, Oshkosh De...
A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has been awarded a potential $4.19 billion contract modification to produce different variants of the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft for three U.S. military services and the Japanese government. Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will provide 39 CMV...
Larry Prior, formerly president and CEO of CSRA and a four-time Wash100 winner, has joined The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) as an operating executive consultant for the private equity firm™s aerospace, defense and government services team. He will provide the team with investment guidance on acquisition and sourcing and offer advice to ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HUggroXpew Task Force Raider, 2d Battalion 4th Marines, has been conducting Exercise Diamond Strike with Australian Defence Force service members. The multilateral exercise is a culminating training event for the Australian Army before they are ready to deploy. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Antonio Campbell)...
Ken Georgi, formerly vice president and general manager of the civilian sector at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has been named chief operating officer at government technology services contractor Halfaker and Associates. He brings more than two decades of operational. managerial accountability and profit-an...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGsJk41G5_A Marines with Combat Assault Company, 3rd Marine Regiment, conduct demolition and explosive training at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, June 8, 2018. The exercise was held for Marines to build different demolition explosives and learn urban breaching techniques in preparation for the Rim of the Pacific Exercise...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvzZvi4bSr0 Marines with 3rd Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, conducted a cargo drop from a C-130 May 22, 2018, on Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan. The Marines conducted air drop operations dropping a type-five platform, door bundles, free fall a...
