GovConWire's Government Contracting News 9/8/2021

Communications & Power Industries has agreed to acquire L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE: LHX) ESSCO business for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand CPI’s portfolio of ground-based radomes for defense and government agency clients. Massachusetts-based ESSCO manufactures ground-based metal space frame radomes supporting air defense, satellite telemetry and tracking, air traffic control, weather radar

Thomas Huber, formerly a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, has been named executive vice president and chief transformation officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). He will lead a company-wide initiative, dubbed 1MPACT, to create value for customers and shareholders over the next five years, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. “As 1MPACT efforts progress,

Raylene Yung, co-founder and former CEO of the nonprofit U.S. Digital Response organization, has been appointed executive director of the General Services Administration’s Technology Modernization Fund program management office. She will manage the funding vehicle for agencies that apply to receive federal funds to modernize information technology systems. GSA said Tuesday. Yung helped establish USDR

KBR (NSYE: KBR) has won a potential $416.3 million task order to provide expeditionary staging area services at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic issued the task order with a $72.8 million base value, plus 10 unexercised options, as part of a multiple-award U.S. Navy contract vehicle

In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Dana Barnes, senior vice president of public sector at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, about zero trust and cloud capabilities, the impact of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies on the federal workforce and training, the challenges of creating

Two executives at Lockheed Martin and Cubic will moderate panel discussions of the fifth-generation wireless communications technology at a Sept. 16 virtual event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club. Dawna Morningstar, director of Lockheed’s Next Gen Solutions division, will join representatives from the Army, Air Force and Virginia Tech for the first half of POC’s

The Office of Management and Budget has issued a draft federal strategy to help U.S. government agencies implement zero trust principles in their enterprise security architecture in accordance with President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order. OMB said Tuesday the draft Federal Zero Trust Strategy establishes baseline technical and policy requirements and covers key areas, including

An industry team led by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential 10-year, $343 million contract to design a telecommunications network for an Australian government-owned air navigation service provider. L3Harris said Tuesday it will lead a consortium tasked with planning and designing an integrated enterprisewide system for Airservices Australia‘s networking, radio communications and surveillance

David Romola, formerly senior vice president of operations at Citizant, has assumed the role of chief operating officer of the Chantilly, Virginia-based government information technology services contractor. He will oversee account growth strategies and client delivery activities in his new role, the company said Tuesday. Citizant CEO Alba Aleman said Romola has worked through the

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit has won a potential five-year, $93 million blanket purchase agreement to support air defense communications work at the Defense Information Systems Agency. The GDIT business will receive $2,500 in minimum funds from DISA through an initial task order, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Work under the BPA