Donald Wetekam, vice president of government and defense business development at AAR‘s aviation services sector, and Jeffrey Wehrenberg, previously chief operating officer at the company’s airlift division, have been appointed to lead AAR Airlift. The company said Thursday Wetekam and Wehrenberg will report to John Ho...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 27, 2016 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) has secured a five-year $31 million contract for cybersecurity research, evaluation and analysis services in support of the Defense Technical Information Center, ExecutiveBiz reported. The company said Dec. 20 it will conduct assessments, independent verification and validat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 27, 2016 ” Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has appointed Doug Harlow, formerly a business development executive at the acquisition management services company, as program manager for its Department of Homeland Security‘s national protection and programs directorate contract, GovCon Executive s...
Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) subsidiary, has received a $313.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to help maintain F119-PW-100 engines. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers necessary parts for engine sustainment. Work will occur in Connecticut, ...
Gary Wang, a former chief technology officer at IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Peter O’Donoghue, a former vice president at CSRA (NYSE: CSRA), will serve as VPs within Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal business. Wang will oversee Unisys Federal‘s cloud-related products as VP for cloud and infrastructure services while O...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $284.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce infrared target sight systems for the AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopter. The company™s Orlando, Florida-based missile and fire control unit will produce the sight system in Orlando and Ocala in Florida through January 2022 for the Navy an...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has received a $146.7 million contract modification to provide design support for the U.S. Navy‘s Columbia-class submarines. The Defense Department said Thursday the award covers design work; shipbuilder, vendor component and technology development; engineering int...
President-elect Donald Trump has asked Boeing (NYSE: BA) to quote a competing price for its F-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft citing cost overruns in the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 jet, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Anthony Capaccio and Alex Wayne write Trump made the announcement in a Twitter post Thursday a day after he ...
Accenture™s (NYSE: ACN) federal services unit has been awarded a potential five-year, $290 million contract to help the Transportation Security Administration™s office of human capital recruit between 8, 000 and 10, 000 employees annually. The company said Thursday Arlington, Virginia-based Accenture Federal Services will assist TSA w...
Our Roundup of 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Calendar year 2016 in the government contracting sector seemed to constantly give us a changing landscape to evaluate and try to forecast the short- and long-term effects of each significant development. Of course, 20...
