A subsidiary of Vencore has received a two-year, $5.6 million task order from the Securities and Exchange Commission for data analytics, monitoring and consulting services to support the agency’s work to track financial markets. Vencore Labs will work with its partner Promontory to build a system that incorporates the use of analytics in the SEC’s efforts to both monitor […] More

Array Information Technology has secured two contracts to provide budget support services for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday it will provide database and application management services in support of the secretary of the Air Force for financial management and budget under the Automated Budget Interactive Data Environment System contract. ABIDES is a tool designed to […] More

Cohort subsidiary SEA will design and provide external communications system for the U.K. navy’s submarines under a potential $24 million BAE Systems order for the second stage of the Common External Communications System. Cohort said Thursday the order builds on an initial contract awarded in 2009 and a previous order in October 2014, which required ECS installation […] More

Raytheon has teamed up with CAE, Finmeccanica and Honeywell to introduce the T-100 training jet as part of their efforts to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer aircraft program. The T-100 aircraft is a variant of the Alenia Aermacchi-built M-346 training jet and comes with a ground-based training platform, Raytheon said Monday. Gene Colabatistto, group president for […] More

Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries  have introduced the T-50A training jet that they plan to offer to the U.S. Air Force as part of the upcoming competition for the T-X trainer aircraft program. Lockheed and KAI built the trainer aircraft in an effort to replace the service branch’s fleet of T-38 planes, Lockheed said Thursday. Rob Weiss, executive vice […] More

Sherly Bunton, formerly chief information officer at agricultural equipment manufacturer AGCO, has joined General Dynamics subsidiary Gulfstream Aerospace as CIO. Gulfstream said Thursday that Bunton will report to Chief Financial Officer Dan Clare and will oversee the company’s enterpise information technology assets and strategies. She previously held leadership roles at wire and cable maker Southwire, […] More

A KPMG survey has found that 81 percent of chief information officers, chief security officers and other executives at healthcare companies say their computer systems have been targets of cyber attacks over the past 24 months. The audit firm said Wednesday it interviewed 223 CIOs, CSOs and other senior executives and found that only 53 […] More

Lockheed Martin has received an authorization from the Department of Homeland Security to provide cybersecurity services to federal government clients. The company will have access to DHS’ classified cybersecurity threat data under the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services information sharing program to help the department protect organizations from cyber attacks, Lockheed said Monday. “We’ll integrate the Department of Homeland […] More

The Washington Post has selected several GovCon firms for recognition in the newspaper’s annual list of the 150 “Top Workplaces” in the greater Washington area. The Post chose the recipients based on overall employee perceptions of leadership quality, pay and benefits and work-life balance strategies at the organizations. Companies selected for the list were broken up into […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a new set of contract extensions to Computer Sciences Corp. and HP Enterprise Services for data center services as DHS transitions to an enterprise computing services framework. Both extensions fall under agency’s Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions contract vehicle. DHS will award the task order for data center 1 to CSC […] More

United Launch Alliance Chairman Craig Cooning and CEO Tory Bruno believe the congressional ban on RD-180 engines hurts the business case for further Boeing and Lockheed Martin investment on rocket development, SpaceNews reported Friday. Warren Ferster writes that the ULA executives have indicated the need for 14 of the Russia-made engines to participate in competitions under the U.S. Air Force‘s […] More

The U.S. Navy has asked industry to submit ideas for the development of new electro-optic and infrared systems that can help defend naval ships from optically guided missile threats. The Office of Naval Research issued a presolicitation on April 23 to provide information on the military branch’s plan to build the Combined EO/IR Surveillance and […] More