Ball’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business has received a potential 15-year, $486.9 million contract from NASA to build a sounder instrument for the space agency’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite program with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ball Aerospace & Technologies will provide spacecraft integration a...
Maximus‘ (NYSE: MMS) federal business has won a seven-year, $50 million contract from the Office of Personnel Management to run a health insurance customer service center for U.S. Postal Service employees, annuitants and their families, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday. The report said Maximus Federal Services bested three bidders on the in...
The Department of Health and Human Services is investing more than $1.4 billion in developing next-generation vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19. The funds are part of the government’s $5 billion Project NextGen initiative to enable the rapid development of longer-lasting COVID-19 vaccines, a new antibody therapy and technologies to ad...
Andrew Campbell was elevated to the role of vice president of business development at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) Australian business arm, where he recently served as director of capture operations. He will be responsible for driving in-country business pursuits through oversight of capture and business development professionals, Leidos Australia sai...
Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
John West, a more than three-decade industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of business development and strategy at Tyto Athene. He brings to the role over 30 years of experience providing strategic consulting support to federal government customers and has held various positions at companies in the areas of business development, executi...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) was awarded a potential five-year, $109 million contract to continue assisting the U.S. Cyber Command in its development of command, control, communications, computers and capabilities. The Centreville, Virginia-headquartered defense contractor said Thursday the classified award covers work previously done as part of C4 Capabilit...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to address foreign threats to U.S. national security by authorizing the secretary of the Treasury to regulate U.S. investments in countries of concern that are involved in developing technologies considered essential for military, cyber, intelligence and surveillance operations. The EO identifies sem...
CRDF Global has acquired Development Innovations Group for an undisclosed sum to expand its security assistance and development offerings in support of customers’ missions. DIG is a privately held international development firm focused on supporting developing and transitioning economies and post-conflict and post-disaster environments in Asia, La...
Gary Sauer, a former program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been named vice president of business development for advanced research and development at Eqlipse Technologies. He will lead the expansion and transition of Eqlipse’s R&D capabilities to operational programs that support defense and intelligence com...
