Bob Ritchie is a fast learner. The technologist started at SAIC as an intern fresh out of a Virginia Tech computer engineering degree and only three years later was the chief software architect assisting the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, wherein he helped digitally transform preexisting Department of Defense tactical decision and command and control,...
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are in the midst of one of the most challenging recruitment environments in the last two decades. But according to Hon. Franklin Parker, assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs, the tides may be turning in response to multiple efforts underway within the two services. During his...
SRI International was awarded a Defense Logistics Agency Land contract with a maximum value of $125.6 million for the U.S. military’s generalized emulation of microcircuits production program. The Department of Defense said the military service users covered under the long term, indefinite-delivery, hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fi...
Distributed Computing System Solutions Provider, which operates as HunaTek Government Solutions, secured a potential five-year $99.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for management support services. The Department of Defense said the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers end-to-end and portfolio management support services for t...
A new McAleese & Associates report indicates that the Senate Armed Services Committee’s $875 billion annual defense policy bill reflects a 3 percent increase, or $25 billion, from the White House’s proposed $850 billion budget for the Department of Defense. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winne...
Venice Goodwine, the Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer, is slated to give a keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Air Defense Summit on July 23. Learn more about the DAF CIO, her career history and her accomplishments below. Who Is Venice Goodwine? Goodwine is the Air Force CIO and a member...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has secured a $1.56 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide F-35 logistics support services for domestic and international military customers. The contractor will perform ground maintenance, depot activities, automatic logistics information system operations and maintenance, supply chai...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded $120 million in combined firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to ASRC Federal and Noble Supply and Logistics for facility support services. Both companies, each with a $60 million award, will continue providing DLA with facility maintenance, repair and operations supplies over a...
Medical device manufacturer Arthrex has received a five-year, $471 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver orthopedic procedural packages and supplies to military and government customers. The DLA Troop Support in Pennsylvania awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract on a sole source basis and will fund the ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide diminishing manufacturing sources parts for the F-35 aircraft production and sustainment under a $79 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the procurement will support fighter jets of the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, foreign military sales customer...
