GovConWire's Government Contracting News 8/26/2022

Hector Collazo, vice president of mission technology and innovations at Sev1Tech since March, has been elevated to the chief technology officer role. He will oversee the company’s high-impact technology, science and engineering team and manage the delivery of new technologies to commercial customers, Sev1Tech said Thursday. Prior to joining Sev1Tech, Collazo worked for Agile Defense

The State Department has approved a foreign military sale of multimission military helicopters, manufactured by Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, to Australia through a $1.95 billion government-to-government transaction. Australia requested to buy 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters along with a range of additional items such as engines and spares, counter-missile warning systems, satellite communications

The United States Space Force has trained an “unblinking eye” on its top pacing challenge and adversary, China, as the U.S. races to maintain space dominance in the increasingly contested and hostile domain, according to Brig. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, the Space Force’s new director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. In recent years, the Department of

The U.S. Army’s Capability Sets were introduced in 2021 in order to lay out a roadmap for maintaining a modern, technologically advanced service branch that will be prepared for any challenges adversaries could bring their way. The Capability Sets are mission protocols designed to be completed and phased out every two years. This effort began with

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a potential $1.15 billion order from the U.S. Army to build modernized Abrams main battle tanks for Poland. The foreign military sales order is for the delivery of 250 M1A2 System Enhancement Program version 3 vehicles that include upgrades to armor, communications, fire control and fuel systems,

Kris Perry, formerly head of research and integration division at Intelligent Waves, has elevated to the role of vice president of engineering at the company. He will bring to the role over two decades of technological insight and understanding of defense systems and missions to oversee the design and delivery of novel platforms to customers

Guardians of Honor has received a potential five-year, $290 million contract from NASA to offer STEM products and services aimed at improving STEM literacy and immersing underrepresented and underserved students in the space agency’s research work. The single-award NASA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics contract includes awards and grants support, STEM content and products, NASA

ExecutiveBiz featured Scott Recinos, senior vice president of homeland security market at LMI, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He shared his strategic goals for the coming year including maintaining the company’s support to Department of Homeland Security customers. The Q&A also tackled potential new markets for LMI, the company’s core values

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential five-year, $91.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modifications, maintenance and depot-level support for the AN/AQS-20 sonar mine-hunting system and AN/MHP-20 deploy and retrieve platform. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract has a one-year base period valued at approximately $18.5 million and four option years

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will help the U.S. Navy modernize and sustain enterprise networks under a $163 million contract. SAIC said Thursday it will support the life cycle of shore-based systems for the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Shore Networks Branch in San Diego. “We are focused on delivering valuable support and solutions