GovConWire's Government Contracting News 7/15/2022

Executive Spotlights

Q&A With V2X CEO Chuck Prow Highlights Pre-Merger Discussions & Future Opportunities for Combined Workforce

Following the completion of the all-stock merger between Vectrus and Vertex that resulted in the establishment of V2X, Chuck Prow, CEO of the new and more diversified company, engaged in a Q&A with GovCon Wire to share the early discussions about the combination and to expound on the rationale behind the transaction. The eight-time recipient

Contract Awards

General Dynamics Wins $908M Contract for IT, Network Support to US Air Forces in Europe & Africa

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a potential 10-year, $908 million contract to provide IT and enterprise network services to U.S. Air Force personnel across the European and African continents. AF Installation Contracting Command received six bids for the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will obligate $35,000 at the time of award, the

News

AFS Defense Portfolio Lead Vince Vlasho Receives 2022 Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Vince Vlasho, a senior managing director and defense portfolio lead for Accenture Federal Services (AFS), was recently presented his first Wash100 Award, the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a visit to the company’s office. Executive Mosaic recognizes Vince Vlasho as a 2022 Wash100 Award winner for his leadership in driving the latest

Contract Awards

AmerisourceBergen Wins $6B Contract to Support DHA’s Tricare Pharmacy Program

The Defense Logistics Agency has selected AmerisourceBergen for a potential eight-year, $6.06 billion contract to replenish pharmaceutical products and related items to order processing facilities for the Defense Health Agency-managed Tricare program. AmerisourceBergen will act as the Tricare Pharmacy Program’s national prime vendor and provide backup support to ordering sites for the Pharmaceutical Prime Vendor

Contract Awards

Spire Global, 2 Other Companies to Provide Space Weather Data Under NOAA Contracts; Chuck Cash Quoted

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR), GeoOptics and PlanetiQ to supply space weather data under a pilot program that seeks to demonstrate the impact of commercial data on weather forecast models. The Commercial Weather Data Pilot contracts call for the three companies to provide radio occultation measurements

Executive Moves

Michael Duke, Michelle Moratti, Joe Bialowitz, Mark Thomas Named to Guidehouse Health Segment

Guidehouse has added former hospital and state health leaders Michael Duke, Michelle Moratti, Joe Bialowitz and Mark Thomas to its health segment to help organizations modernize the delivery of health care services to communities, transform operations and finances and address market challenges. Duke, former chief information officer for a community hospital, will oversee Guidehouse’s health-focused

Executive Moves

Former LMI Exec Christen Smith Takes SVP Role at Abt Associates

Christen Smith, former vice president of the federal health and civilian market at LMI, has been appointed senior VP for the U.S. domestic business at Rockville, Maryland-based consulting and research firm Abt Associates. Abt said Thursday that Smith will oversee Abt’s newly formed business organization that employs more than 500 professionals who conduct studies and

News

Shift5 Announces Involvement of AEI-Boeing Venture Group in Series B Funding Round

Shift5, an Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity company, has closed a round of Series B financing led by Insight Partners and announced the participation of AEI HorizonX, a venture capital group formed by AE Industrial Partners and Boeing (NYSE: BA), in the funding round. The investment will enable Shift5 to expand its footprint in the defense and

Executive Moves

Amanda Muller Promoted to Northrop Chief of Responsible Technology

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has promoted 16-year company veteran Amanda Muller to chief of responsible technology. Muller will be responsible for shaping processes, tools and policies for artificial intelligence and information governance across Northrop’s enterprise and within its defense area, according to her LinkedIn profile. Prior to the promotion, she supported AI systems engineering efforts

Contract Awards

Lockheed Gets $59M Army OTA for Stryker-Mounted Electronic Warfare Prototyping Work

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $58.8 million other transaction authority agreement to continue building prototypes of an electronic warfare and cyber capability for integration with the U.S. Army’s Stryker vehicles. The OTA agreement will run through October 2023 in support of a manufacturing proof of concept for the Army’s Terrestrial Layer System –

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 7/15/2022

Q&A With V2X CEO Chuck Prow Highlights Pre-Merger Discussions & Future Opportunities for Combined Workforce

General Dynamics Wins $908M Contract for IT, Network Support to US Air Forces in Europe & Africa

AFS Defense Portfolio Lead Vince Vlasho Receives 2022 Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

AmerisourceBergen Wins $6B Contract to Support DHA’s Tricare Pharmacy Program

Spire Global, 2 Other Companies to Provide Space Weather Data Under NOAA Contracts; Chuck Cash Quoted

Michael Duke, Michelle Moratti, Joe Bialowitz, Mark Thomas Named to Guidehouse Health Segment

Former LMI Exec Christen Smith Takes SVP Role at Abt Associates

Shift5 Announces Involvement of AEI-Boeing Venture Group in Series B Funding Round

Amanda Muller Promoted to Northrop Chief of Responsible Technology

Lockheed Gets $59M Army OTA for Stryker-Mounted Electronic Warfare Prototyping Work

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