Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business has secured a $2 billion contract modification for lot 17 F-35 aircraft engine manufacturing services in support of U.S. and international defense customers. The award from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command will fund the procurement of propulsion system materials, pa...
Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Noble Supply and Logistics a $562.5 million contract modification to continue to provide maintenance, repair and operation support at various U.S. military facilities overseas. The modification exercises the first option year of a previously awarded four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract f...
Bluestone Investment Partners has made an investment in Precise Systems, a Maryland-headquartered provider of software development and other professional support services to the Department of Defense. The companies said Tuesday in a joint statement that Scott Pfister, former president and chief operating officer of Precise Systems, has been appointe...
Mark Bortfeld, a three-decade government contracting industry veteran, has joined ManTech as senior vice president of the Navy segment. He succeeds Red Hoover, who went into retirement after a more than 10-year career at ManTech, and will directly report to David Hathaway, executive VP and general manager of the company’s defense sector, the H...
Photo Contributor: Tsuguliev/Shutterstock The defense industry is one of the world’s largest and most competitive industries. The U.S. federal government agencies under the Department of Defense are actively procuring defense products and upgrading existing systems with the latest technology to strengthen the nation’s military fo...
Executive Mosaic is honored to name U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro to the 2023 Wash100 list for spearheading Navy infrastructure modernization initiatives, reforming acquisition processes and driving technology innovation across the service branch. This marks Del Toro’s debut on the Wash100 list, which annually recognizes distinguis...
Bryan Bearden, former vice president of portfolio management at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been named VP of information technology services at Sumaria Systems. He will be responsible for helping drive Sumaria’s operational culture and growth and ensure the delivery of technology products to customers, the compan...
The U.S. Navy has exercised options worth $234 million under a contract with Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for the production and delivery of an over-the-horizon weapon system for defending against targets at sea and on land. Raytheon and its Norwegian partner Kongsberg Gruppen won the potential $847.6 million OTH-WS contract in 2018 to supply N...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary will engineer H-53 heavy-lift transport helicopters for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and foreign military sales customers as part of a five-year, $120 million contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award includes logistics and modification installation support for the H-53 platfor...
