Systems Planning and Analysis has won a potential $185 million contract to advise the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on scientific and technical matters. The Alexandria, Virginia-based company will provide assistance to DTRA’s research and development work on defense measures against improvised threats and weapons of mass destruction, the Dep...
Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO of Peraton, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most esteemed and respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson last week during a recent visit to the company’s office. This marks the fourth consecutive year and fifth overall that Stu Shea has...
ExecutiveBiz released its latest Executive Spotlight on Wednesday with Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and four-time Wash100 Award recipient. During the interview, Wagner shed some light on his team’s efforts to drive new information technology solutions for federal customers, data processing for military service branches, the greatest...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has agreed to buy Alion Science and Technology from Veritas Capital for approximately $1.65 billion in cash as part of a push to expand its technical capabilities and portfolio of national security platforms. HII said Tuesday it expects the transaction to conclude in the second half of 2021 and help...
The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a potential $4.79 billion contract vehicle for services related to research, development and sustainment of hardware and software capabilities to support the intelligence production requirements of the military branch, Department of Defense and intelligence community. The NOVASTAR indefinit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 7, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and its industry partners will build a ground station for long-range precision targeting under the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node program, ExecutiveBiz reported June 29. The TITAN system will be developed by the Raytheon-led team to provide targetable in...
“Technology innovation is the battlefield of today.” Amid the pandemic, the Department of Air Force indicated in its fiscal 2019/2020 Acquisition Biennial Report how it developed innovative strategies to carry on with its missions and integrate digital engineering into its operations. From executing the pioneer end-to-end demonstration of the Ad...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the fifth overall Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and sought-after award in all of government contracting (GovCon), to Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO of Peraton, during a recent visit to the company’s office. For his 2021 Wash100 Award, Shea was recognized for his leadership in Peraton...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected three teams of researchers led by BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to produce low-latency, low-power, event-based infrared cameras as part of the Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics program. “Event-based cameras operate under ...
As the role of information technology (IT) grows throughout the federal government, the U.S. Air Force wants to streamline and optimize its acquisition process through digital transformation. The service branch is currently working to incorporate digital engineering, agile software development and open system architectures to achieve its acquisition...
