GovConWire's Government Contracting News 2/1/2022

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI Information Systems, as an inductee into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 Award for his efforts in leading the company’s major contract wins, adoption of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies as well as partnership with the academe. Dillahay is among selected executives

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $1.42 billion sole-source contract to provide logistics and mission sustainment services to the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of military transport planes. The AF Life Cycle Management Center is obligating $91 million in fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance funds at the time of the award and expects the company

Army Brig. Gen. Charles “Rob” Parker, J6 deputy director at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will address the Potomac Officers Club on Wednesday for a virtual forum about the role of data and technology in the Pentagon’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy. Parker was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in January 2021

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) posted $8.6 billion in sales for the fourth quarter of its 2021 fiscal year and a 3 percent increase in organic sales for the full year ended Dec. 31, due to strong performance of the company’s space and mission systems segments. The Falls Church, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said Q4

Cybersecurity thought leader Melissa Hathaway, CipherTrace CEO David Jevans, Abaxx Associates CEO Eric Scofield and Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, took part in an enlightening panel discussion on identifying virtual asset knowledge gaps, addressing ransomware threats and accelerating the speed of federal innovation during the Potomac Officers Club’s Digital Currency

ExecutiveBiz featured Larry Gwaltney, CEO of Federal Resources, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He talked about the company being acquired by Noble and merging with the latter’s TSSi business to collectively provide integrated systems, data analytics and more offerings to customers. The executive also discussed Federal Resources’ growth strategies and contract

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and a Global Ordnance division will compete for orders under a potential $750 million contract to supply special ammunition and weapons systems to the U.S. Army. The service branch’s procurement organization received 10 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online solicitation, the Department of Defense said Monday. Army Contracting Command

Manish Sharma, group chief executive for operations at Accenture (NYSE: ACN), has been promoted to chief operating officer in a move that takes effect March 1. He will replace Jo Deblaere, who has held the COO role since September 2009 and will retire after 38 years of service at the professional services company, Accenture said

Executive Mosaic has introduced Cognosante President James Gordon as the newest inductee into the Wash100 in recognition of his leadership in health information technology and customer experience strategy. This marks his first entry into Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the 100 most significant contributors to government contracting activity in both the public and private sectors.

The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded Scale AI a $249 million blanket purchase agreement to develop platforms for testing machine learning, deep learning and neural network architectures. Scale AI said Monday it will make the company’s technology available to federal clients as JAIC’s government-wide AI partner. The effort will focus on