HII (NYSE: HII) has won a seven-year, $78.7 million contract to provide independent advice and assessment support for the Missile Defense Agency’s initiative to develop an integrated and layered system for intercepting adversary missiles. The Department of Defense named Alion Science and Technology the awardee of the competitive cost-plus-fixe...
The Potomac Officers Club is gearing up to host its 2023 Homeland Security Summit on Nov. 15 with a speaker lineup featuring top officials from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and more. Register here. Meet the keynotes: Paul Courtney is the chief procurement officer for DHS, and in this role, he is...
Eqlipse Technologies has purchased Stevensville, Maryland-based cloud analytics company Net Vision Consultants for an undisclosed sum. DLA Piper, a global law firm that advised Net Vision on the transaction, announced the acquisition Monday. Net Vision offers network analysis and engineering consulting services to the defense and intelligence secto...
Deborah Youmans, former vice president and deputy chief information officer at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named CIO at not-for-profit research and development organization Mitre. She will supervise more than 400 IT professionals within Mitre’s enterprise computing and information systems unit, the non-for-profit research and dev...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received $1.5 billion in prototype agreements from the Space Development Agency to develop and operate 72 Beta satellites for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA said Monday the PWSA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Beta prototype sat...
An HII (NYSE: HII) division will help the U.S. Air Force manage its bombers portfolio under a five-year, $138 million task order. HII Mission Technologies will provide advisory and assistance services to the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s directorate responsible for modernizing and sustaining bomber systems, the company said Mon...
Jerry Boegler, vice president of growth for Axient‘s national security and space systems segment since June 2021, has been promoted to the chief growth officer role. He will lead strategy development, advise on merger-and-acquisition activity and supervise teams focused on business development, capture, proposal and pricing functions, Axient s...
Government service provider Aretum has purchased professional services firm Artemis Consulting in an effort to expand its agile development capabilities and customer base in the government contracting landscape. Artemis brings to Aretum capabilities in digital transformation, legacy system modernization and agile development, Artemis Founder and Pre...
The Small Business Administration issued interim guidance on the 8(a) Business Development Program after a U.S. District Court ruled that SBA should be precluded from using the “presumption of social disadvantage” in administering the program. SBA said Friday it also released interim guidance for federal agencies to enable them to continue...
The Defense Logistics Agency has released a solicitation for the fourth iteration of a contracting vehicle that would provide for research and development efforts in various agency mission-specific areas. According to the SAM.gov notice, the Emergent IV broad agency announcement will have a potential $125 million ceiling value for R&D program fo...
