The $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023 is now headed to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature after the Senate voted 83-11 to pass the defense policy bill, The Hill reported Thursday. The NDAA reflects a $45 billion increase from the president’s budget request and seeks to authorize $817...
An Amentum subsidiary has won a five-year, $44.6 million task order to support the U.S. Agency for International Development’s human assistance bureau in implementing regional disaster management and risk reduction programs. The order, awarded under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contra...
SOS International subsidiary Exovera has named Mario Contreras, a more than three-decade special operations and intelligence professional, as chief data officer. In this role, he is focused on integrating acquisition, management and governance in the development and implementation of the company’s data strategy, Exovera said Tuesday. “Mario brin...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $109.1 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue the development and sustainment of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system against potential ballistic missile attacks. The recent award extends the performance period by 12 more months ending December 2024 and increases the value of th...
Federal contracting industry veteran Katherine White has joined PM Consulting Group as vice president of delivery and programs. She oversees the development of processes and workflows to help improve the customer experience with federal agency clients and collaborates with program management, finance, accounting and business development teams to str...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has posted a draft solicitation for a potential five-year, $125 million contract vehicle to acquire cybersecurity and privacy support services. NIST is seeking industry input on five separate mock task orders for standards support, software development, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Educatio...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved fusion ignition, a milestone that could provide insights into the development of clean fusion energy and lead to advancements in national defense. A controlled fusion experiment performed at the National Ignition Facility on Dec. 5 applied ...
Coming out of his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Kent Wilcher considered three industries: oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and defense. After some brief deliberation, his answer was fairly easy. He decided to serve the defense industry because of his belief in its mission—he wanted something highly technica...
Michael Buscher, a defense and intelligence industry veteran, has been appointed executive director of enterprise operations at counter-unmanned aerial systems developer Fortem Technologies. He will be based out of the company’s new office in Washington, D.C., and will coordinate Fortem’s business development strategies and engagem...
Rob VanBrunt, a more than three-decade Spirent Communications veteran and current executive vice president of the company’s Office of Business Excellence, has been designated as president and CEO of Spirent Federal Systems. Once onboarding is finalized, the executive will assume his new role at the federal business arm of Spirent and leverage his ...
