Lawmakers Ask Air Force to Speed Up Ground Surveillance Fleet Recapitalization Defense committees in both chambers of Congress have called on the U.S. Air Force to speed up its recapitalization effort for the service’s legacy ground surveillance fleet, Defense News reported Friday… Read More Air Force Times: Frank Gorenc to Step Down as USAFE Commander Gen. Frank...
VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments Royal Philips has secured grant funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs to explore location-aware assisted technologies for the VA as part of an effort to aid veterans with mild cognitive impairments… Read More Schafer Forms Commercial Space Situational Awareness Business Unit Under...
Report: NNSA’s Follow-on $3B Sandia Labs Support Program Draws 15 Firms, 4 Universities Fifteen companies and four universities have shown interest in pursuing a potential 10-year, $2.9 billion contract for management services at the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s Sandia National Laboratories, the Albuquerque Journal reported May 18… Read More The Telegraph: UK Eyes Boeing for $2.9B...
Army Implements New DoD Appraisal Program for Civilian Employees The U.S. Army has begun to transition its civilian staff into the new Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program for Defense Department employees. The service branch said Wednesday it has transitioned and trained 3,100 Civilian Human Resources Agency staff into the new system and will continue implementation work for more...
State Dept OKs Potential $420M F/A-18 Support FMS to Kuwait The State Department has approved a possible $420 million foreign military sale of F/A-18 C/D support services and spares to Kuwait. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday Kuwait’s request covers F/A-18 avionics software and engine component upgrades, ground support equipment, engine and aircraft spares and repair parts, publications...
Former Engility Finance Lead Michael Alber Joins KEYW as CFO & EVP KEYW (Nasdaq: KEYW) has appointed Michael Alber, formerly chief financial officer at Engility (NYSE: EGL), as CFO and executive vice president. Alber will bring over three decades’ worth of corporate finance, accounting and administrative experience with federal government contractors… Read More Doug Davis: Intel to Buy Computer...
Larry Prior: CSRA to Watch for ‘Strategic Opportunities’ From CSC-HPE Deal, Targets $16B in FY 2017 Bids Government technology services contractor CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) will observe the merger of its former parent Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) with Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) enterprise services segment for any potential opportunities, CSRA CEO Larry Prior told...
Mitchell Jukanovich Joins Tripwire as Federal Sales VP; Dave Dickison Comments Mitchell Jukanovich, formerly senior director of intelligence and international sales for Forcepoint, has joined Tripwire as vice president of federal sales. He will oversee the company’s sales efforts in the public sector as part of his new role, Tripwire saidThursday… Read More Reuters: Orbital ATK Eyes Development...
L-3 Subsidiary Wins $302M Navy Logistics Support Contract for C-12 Transport, Trainer Planes A subsidiary of L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has won a potential $302.2 million contract to provide logistics services for the C-12 Huron utility lift aircraft of the U.S. Navy. L-3 unit Vertex Aerospace will perform post-production, aircraft maintenance and materials delivery for Marine Corps Reserve C-12 as well as Navy TC-12B trainer...
Brian Clark: NCI Gets Extension on IRS Data Tech Services Contract Reston, Virginia-based information technology services provider NCI has received a one-year, $4.9 million task order to continue its support for the Internal Revenue Service‘s efforts to implement big data analytics tools and practices… Read More Fedscoop: DHS to Release Online App for Citizenship Application Process Eric Hysen, Department...
