GovConWire's Government Contracting News 7/1/2021

Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, received his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on Monday. With this year’s honor, Krone has received his eighth consecutive Wash100 Award, the most in the award’s highly prestigious history. As the only GovCon executive

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has announced the appointment of Brian West, a finance and business leader, as executive vice president and chief financial officer and the election of Stayce Harris, a retired U.S. Air Force Reserve lieutenant general, to the company’s board of directors. West will officially assume the EVP and CFO roles on Aug. 27

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $1.80 billion contract to perform recurring logistics work for domestic and international military customers that received F-35 air systems. The company’s aeronautics segment will conduct depot activation, ground maintenance, supply chain management and initial training efforts as part of the undefinitized contract action by Naval Air Systems

Potomac Officers Club, the top membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Trusted Workforce Forum on Wednesday, June 16th. If you missed the Trusted Workforce Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting Potomac Officers Club’s Event Page. The Trusted Workforce Forum showcased notable

Mike Elias, an aerospace and defense industry veteran, has joined CAES as senior vice president and general manager of space systems division. He will manage the company’s portfolio of space products including applications-specific integrated circuits, radiation hardened microelectronics, advanced packaging platforms, positioning and motion control technologies, CAES said Wednesday. Elias will also oversee the company’s

PAE‘s (Nasdaq: PAE) applied technologies unit has secured a potential $402 million contract to help NASA operate and maintain the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA said Wednesday the company will also support Johnson engineering and construction projects and provide management support to the Sonny Carter Training Facility and Ellington Field located close to the

Jeffrey Huth, vice president of TransUnion Public Sector, acted as moderator for an expert panel discussion during the Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce Forum on June 30th.  The following panelist discussed private partnership in the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning, featuring Heather Green of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, Beth McGrath of Deloitte,

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $328.16 million contract to manufacture lot 21 of updated AIM-9X Sidewinder multimission missiles for U.S. and foreign military customers. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the three-year contract from Naval Air Systems Command covers the production of Block II all up round tactical and air training missiles, containers,

Technical Resources International has won a potential 10-year, $173.2 million contract from the National Institutes of Health for sponsor and regulatory management services in support of the Center for Cancer Research within the National Cancer Institute, and CCR investigators. According to an award notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov, TRI will perform work in Bethesda, Maryland

The proposed combination of Santa Clara, California-based in-space transportation services provider Momentus and Stable Road Acquisition (Nasdaq: SRAC), a special purpose acquisition company, is now valued at approximately $700 million under an amended merger agreement that reflects changes in Momentus’ launch schedule. Momentus said Wednesday its current stockholders will see their ownership in the combined