A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says the Navy and the Marine Corps requested a total budget of $206B for fiscal year 2020. The Navy™s FY 2020 budget request includes $20.4B in research, development, test and evaluation funds for several programs: unmanned surface vessels and unmanned underwater vehicles; dir...
The North American arm of Serco Group secured a potential $82.3M task order to deploy, manage and sustain a new civil engineering information technology platform for the U.S. Air Force. Serco Inc. will help the service branch implement the IBM-built (NYSE: IBM) TRIRIGA integrated workplace management system as part of the task order awarded und...
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $237.5M contract to perform hardware design modification on the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System. Lockheed will also support the qualification process for the modified GMLRS design under the fixed-price-incentive contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. Work is scheduled to occur t...
A federal official responsible for border security discussed how his private sector experience prepared him to manage the increasing demands of an agency that operates under close scrutiny during the 3rd Annual Border Protection Innovations and Technology Forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club. John Sanders, chief operating officer of the U.S. Cu...
Dr. Scott Goldstein, chief strategy and technology officer at ENSCO, will be honored at the 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Radar Conference for his contributions to the design, development and deployment of multidomain radar, electronic warfare and cyber systems. He will receive the Warren D. White Award for Excellence in Rada...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District has given Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) a notice to proceed to perform remediation work at the Shallow Land Disposal Area in Parks Township, Pa., under a potential 10-year, $350M single-award contract. Jacobs said Thursday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a five-ye...
Stephen Denker, a retired Air Force major general, has been named head of satellite ground programs at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) in a move that will take effect on April 1. He will be responsible for intelligence and analytics development initiatives in support of space ground platforms as part of the mission solutions business line...
Martin UAV and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) AAI Corp. subsidiary will compete for orders to provide non-developmental tactical unmanned aerial systems to the U.S. Army under a potential three-year, $99.5M contract. Eleven bids were submitted to Army Contracting Command for the firm-fixed-price contract, which runs through March 27, 2022, the Departme...
Marko Bourne, a 10-year veteran of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and former senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Administration, has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as senior vice president of disaster management. He brings 35 years of disaster response, mitigation, resilience and recovery program experience to his new position and will h...
The Institute for Defense Analyses, which currently operates three federally funded research and development centers, has received a potential $950.6M contract to provide various support services to the Department of Defense. Washington Headquarters Services awarded the contract covering research, analyses, test and evaluation support to the Office ...
