The U.S. Navy has awarded Amentum a $461.8 million contract to run the Bahamas-based Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, which provides a testing environment for military maritime warfare research. Six proposals were submitted to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division for the AUTEC operation and maintenance contract, the Depart...
Philip Perconti, former top science and technology executive within the U.S. Army, has joined Leonardo DRS as chief technology officer. He will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor’s corporate strategy for research and development, advance innovation and broaden partnerships to facilitate the development of integrated techn...
The Space Development Agency has released a draft solicitation for a program to design and build satellite prototypes for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s tracking layer and will use other transaction authority as a contracting mechanism for the prototyping effort. SDA expects the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer to help dete...
Jill Albertelli, formerly the senior vice president of transformation and strategy at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business, has been named president of the subsidiary’s military engines organization. She succeeds Matthew Bromberg, who has held the role since 2017 and led F135 engine program implementation efforts f...
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...
