The U.S. Army has awarded positions on a potential four-year, $900 million contract to 17 companies to provide logistics support services for the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense. The contractors will compete for individual task orders under the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the D...
Fred Funk, formerly senior vice president of the national security group at Preferred Systems Solutions, has joined Vistronix as president of cyber and signals intelligence systems. Funk will oversee the company’s strategy, operations and business development efforts focused on the National Security Agency, Vistronix said Tuesday. “As...
Erik Smith, vice president and general manager for sensor systems at Saab Defense and Security USA — a Saab Group subsidiary — has been appointed president and CEO of the business. “Erik has extensive experience in the U.S. defense industry and has a demonstrated understanding of how to navigate our market area’s unique marke...
Parsons has appointed Kurt Tripp and Christian Alexander to new leadership roles within its newly-formed federal government business unit as part of the Pasadena, Calif.-based engineering and construction company’s realignment. Tripp, who joined Parsons in 2011, has been appointed senior vice president and manager of busine...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential one-year, $80 million contract modification to perform computer program baseline design work on Aegis combat systems aboard the U.S. Navy™s warships. The service branch awarded the contract modification to exercise the options under the Aegis Combat System Engineering Agent prog...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 11, 2016 ” Carahsoft Technology will sell Aconex™s cloud-based collaboration tools through a General Services Administration schedule contract to U.S. government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Aconex said Thursday the partnership agreement works to market and sell the online software company...
Jan. 4 – Jan. 8 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Any thoughts that the start of 2016 would be smooth sailing for U.S. government contracting stocks and financial markets have quickly been cast aside as volatility from 2015’s second half carried into the...
A Jacobs Engineering Group subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $355 million contract to operate and maintain NASA‘s ground-based aerospace facilities at Ames Research Center. Jacobs Technology will provide testing and support services to the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels and the Arc Jet Complex under the indefinite-delivery/in...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 7, 2016 ” Battelle and its partners Schlumberger, Solexperts and the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center have been chosen by the Energy Department to drill a borehole in North Dakota to test its feasibility for disposal of high-level radioactive waste and development o...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a potential two-year $142.8 million contract to build missiles for the U.S. Navy to defend ships from adversarial missiles, aircraft and surface vehicles. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will produce, assemble, test and deliver Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missile round packs ...
