GovConWire's Government Contracting News 4/12/2022

Chris Pehrson, formerly an executive at General Atomics, has been appointed chief growth officer of defense technology company Parry Labs. He will be responsible for driving growth initiatives through business capture, program growth and strategic planning efforts in his new position, Parry Labs said Monday. Parry Labs CEO John Parkes said Pehrson’s appointment comes as

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, with his 2022 Wash100 Award during a recent visit to the company to recognize Brady’s contributions to the government contracting (GovCon) community as an elite federal leader. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Chris Brady as one of your TEN votes to advocate for the GovCon and

The Vertex Company has been awarded a potential seven-year, $850 million contract to help a U.S. Navy aviation component maintain aircraft for the branch’s test and evaluation activities. The company said Monday it will provide organizational-level maintenance services to the Naval Test Wing Atlantic, whose fleet consists of fixed-wing, unmanned and rotary aircraft platforms assigned

Byron Bright, president of government solutions at KBR and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He talked about the key factors that led to a 27 percent year-over-year growth for KBR in fiscal year 2021 and the initiatives to capitalize on that success.

Jacobs (NYSE: JEC) has received a five-year, $209 million contract to continue helping NASA manage ground test facilities and activities at the Ames Research Center in California. NASA said Tuesday the company will support experimental environments, such as the Sensor and Thermal Protection System Advanced Research Lab and high-enthalpy arc jet facilities, under the Aerospace

Patrick Sargent, a government health services veteran and retired Army major general, has joined Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s federal business, according to a LinkedIn post. The retired Army major general joins Cerner Government Services from OptumServe, where he most recently served as SVP and led the

A panel of three judges from a federal appeals court in Atlanta recognized the impact of COVID-19 pandemic-related contracting delays on the federal government but said it remains uncertain whether the current administration has the authority to implement a vaccine requirement for employees of federal contractors, Federal News Network reported Monday. In December, a district

In a new report, GovCon Expert and three-time Wash100 winner Jim McAleese shares his analysis of individual budget requests by U.S. military branches as part of the $773 billion Department of Defense spending plan for fiscal year 2023. President Biden submitted a $773 billion DOD budget request to Congress in March, up 5 percent from

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) and M.C. Dean have won spots on a potential eight-year, $91 million contract to provide base defense security systems to the U.S. European Command. The Air Force Installation Contracting Command received three offers for the multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which gives EUCOM access to electronic security and emergency management product offerings, the

Robert Samuels, an investment and financial analysis professional with two decades of Wall Street experience, has been appointed as the first vice president of investor relations and corporate communications at Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL). Michael Porcelain, president and CEO of Comtech, said in a statement published Monday that Samuels will be responsible for helping the