Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $2.7 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and deliver 35 more CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters. The contract includes the development of 12 units of Lot 7 CH-53Ks and 15 Lot 8 aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps and eight helicopters for Israel’...
Laura Kurup, a data and analytics professional, will assume the role of principal director for data science innovation at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal government subsidiary on Sept. 11. In this capacity, she will help Accenture Federal Services‘ agency customers address mission-critical challenges using data science, artificial intell...
A subsidiary of BAE Systems‘ U.S. business arm will provide software development and maintenance, technical support and fleet services under a $91.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy. BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services was tapped to deliver system and subsystem support services to the Navy, Marine Corps, Military Sealift Command, ...
NASA has started soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year, follow-on contract covering research operations, maintenance and engineering support services to Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The space agency intends to conduct a full-and-open competition for the Center Maintenance, Operations and Engineering II contract in support of ...
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...
