GovConWire's Government Contracting News 11/11/2022

Tim Reardon, a 25-year GovCon industry leader and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed CEO and chairman of the board of Sayres Defense, a portfolio company of Charlotte, North Carolina-based private equity firm Broadtree Partners. He succeeds Joel Willett as chief executive of Sayres and will oversee sourcing, investment strategy and acquisitions in support

IPTA has secured a potential $404 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide enterprise information technology support services for the military branch’s Aviation and Missile Center, GovCon Wire has learned. The EITSS contract covers information management services, network support, cybersecurity management, IT asset management, tiered service response, IT governance, application management and portfolio management,

Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, met with members of the Defense Business Board and informed them about the initiatives to strengthen the defense industrial base’s resiliency, according to a DOD meeting readout released Thursday. During DBB’s first quarterly meeting for fiscal year 2023, the two-time Wash100 Award recipient emphasized to the

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), Noble Supply and Logistics and SupplyCore have received firm-fixed-price bridge contracts worth about $339 million combined from the Defense Logistics Agency to continue providing maintenance, repair and operations support at U.S. military facilities. The company will provide MRO supplies to the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S.

Carl Jones, a U.S. Air Force veteran, has assumed the role of senior director of Space Force and USAF business development and sales at BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY). Jones moved to BlackSky after working for five years at Lentech, where he previously served as senior director/strategic advisor to Air Force multi-domain command and control, he

A Centrus Energy subsidiary has entered into a $150 million cost-shared partnership agreement with the Department of Energy to demonstrate the domestic production of a high-performance nuclear fuel component. American Centrifuge Operating will deploy a cascade of 16 advanced centrifuges at an enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio, to produce 20 kilograms of 19.75 percent enriched

Advanced Space, a Westminster, Colorado-based aerospace company, has secured a $72 million contract to support the development of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Oracle spacecraft program. Work under the contract includes demonstrating space situational awareness and detecting and tracking objects in lunar region, AFRL said Thursday. Formerly called Cislunar Highway Patrol System, the Oracle program seeks

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Riverside Research have won contracts worth $79.2 million combined to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force. The contractors will research, build and demonstrate component prototypes to further develop open architecture approaches and standards for existing and future weapons systems of the Air Force and the Department of

Gregory Reyes, a sales and business development executive with more than 30 years of combined government and industry experience, has been appointed as vice president of federal business growth at Vistra Communications. Reyes will oversee the implementation of the service-disabled veteran-owned small business’ growth strategies for the defense and civilian sectors in his new capacity,

The Tunisian air force has accepted the delivery of a Beechcraft T-6C Texan II integrated military training aircraft manufactured by Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) aviation defense subsidiary under a foreign military sales agreement. The aircraft is the first of the eight Textron Aviation Defense-designed military flight trainers for Tunisia, and is planned to support operations at