Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has urged Congress to fully fund the government for fiscal year 2022 because he believes a long-term continuing resolution will have a significant impact on key programs at the Department of Defense. Austin, a 2021 Wash100 awardee, made the statement Monday after President Biden approved stopgap measure to maintain age...
Battelle has won a $9.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to support computational and experimental chemistry and computer modeling activities over a six-year period. The Columbus, Ohio-headquartered research and development organization will help the military service know the reaction rates for chemica...
Michael Alberi, a business development executive in the government contracting industry, has been promoted to vice president of growth at Columbia, Maryland-based government technology provider Planned Systems International. Prior to his promotion, Alberi was director of business development for PSI’s military and veterans’ health busine...
Fairfax, Virginia-based Information Analysis Inc. (Nasdaq: IAIC) will combine its professional services business with Tellenger, an IAI subsidiary that offers information technology consulting and software development services to the federal sector. The reorganization initiative will provide Tellenger its own advisory board, which IAI President Stan...
Christie Thomas, vice president of contracts and pricing at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division since 2018, has been appointed to serve as corporate vice president of investor relations starting Jan. 1. She will succeed Dwayne Blake, who will retire at the start of 2022 after nine years in the job, the...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential 10-year, $3.19 billion contract from NASA to produce and operate solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System in support of the Artemis program. The contract covers the production of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension boosters for Artemis IX and flight sets for Artemis IV through...
BAE Systems will continue to supply military-code GPS receiver technology to the Department of Defense and its international allies under a $316 award from the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA exercised an option on a multiyear contract awarded to the company’s U.S. subsidiary in May to procure Modernized GPS User Equipment Increment 1 Common GPS...
Chris Fall, former director at the Department of Energy’s science office, has joined Mitre as vice president of applied sciences for the nonprofit corporation’s research and development organization. He will oversee Mitre Labs’ R&D programs that explore quantum computing, synthetic biology, space, material science and other eme...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support research and development work on renewable power. The supercomputer called Kestrel will support energy programs related to security, storage, community transitions, energy justice, systems integrati...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received an $80.5 million task order to help a U.S. Navy warfare center develop mission technology to defend manned and unmanned aircraft platforms from drone threats. The company said Wednesday it will perform research, development and analysis work for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, to update ...
