In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, Matt Tarascio, senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, talked about the company’s efforts to expand its position in the federal marketplace, drive innovation and ensure long term success for its workforce. The Q&A also tackled the establishment of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligenc...
Darby LaJoye, former acting administrator at the Transportation Security Administration, has been named vice president and strategic account executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS). He will lead efforts to grow the company’s DHS footprint and support organic growth initiatives in his new position, Leidos said F...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a $334 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of a larger class air-breathing hypersonic system that will employ a standardized payload interface to carry out multiple missions. A Leidos-led team will aim to design a vehicle powered by a scramjet engine and capable of traveling...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has received a $302.2 million undefinitized contract action to produce, deliver and engineer Mark 48 heavyweight submarine-launched torpedoes for the U.S. and Australian navies. Sixty-one percent of contract purchases are for the U.S. Navy and the remaining 39 percent are for Au...
Boston-based Advent International has agreed to purchase Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $6.4 billion, including debt, that will take the satellite imagery contractor private, the two companies said Friday. The $53-a-share price of the deal is a premium of 129 percent to Maxar’s Thursday closing o...
Image by Kristi Blokhin from Shutterstock.com CACI International (Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc) is a top-tier U.S. federal government contractor based in Reston, Virginia. Most of its customers are from the defense, security, homeland, healthcare, and intelligence departments. In the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2021, the company’s c...
Jeff Showalter, chief development officer at technical consulting firm John H. Northrop & Associates, will join HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division to serve as its vice president of operations, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive has over 25 years of experience in providing professional services as a business consulta...
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...
