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oversees day-to-day content production for ExecutiveBiz, a publication under Executive Mosaic's media group covering government contracting industry news. She also writes about executive movements and commentaries, M&A activities, contract awards and technology and service offerings of medium-sized businesses and other GovCon companies. Prior to assuming her current responsibilities with EBiz, Thropp produced daily competitive intelligence briefings for the company's GovCon customers.
Northrop Grumman and Defence Digital, a U.K. defense ministry organization, have entered into a digital enterprise agreement under which the company will provide Interoperable C4I Services as well as command and control technical consultancy. Katharine Sealy, director of national security solutions at Northrop’s U.K. business arm, said in a statement published Wednesday that the company […] More
VTG will equip five of the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers with a directed energy weapon designed to counter adversaries’ unmanned aerial system-mounted intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. The integration of VTG’s AN/SEQ-4 Optical Dazzler Interdictor, Navy aboard more ships is part of a prime contract awarded by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, […] More
The U.S. Navy has selected 15 companies to compete for task orders under a five-year, $74 million multiple-award contract that provides for the design and engineering of prototype vehicle components and systems for the U.S. Special Operations Command. Work through Dec. 20, 2026, also includes fabrication and testing support for SOCOM’s family of special operations […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2021 — Ensco has established two new business groups for aerospace and engineering and surface transportation pursuits and, in connection, promoted Kevin Pruett and Jeffrey Stevens to senior vice president roles, GovCon Wire reported July 14. Boris Nejikovsky, president of Ensco, said the company aims to attract new customers and […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 19, 2021 — The Department of Labor has named LexisNexis Special Services as one of the prime vendors that will perform credential and identity verification work under a potential $1.21 billion blanket purchase agreement that is expected to conclude by July 14, 2026, GovCon Wire reported July 12. Through the multiple-award […] More
A Department of Commerce-sponsored public-private partnership has received two awards worth $153 million in total from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for further development of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes to scale up the domestic supply chain. The awards to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals also cover research and development efforts in […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp. has delivered another Mission Enhancement Kit for the King Air 350 aircraft to the U.S. Army in an effort to expand the capabilities of its fleet of enhanced medium altitude reconnaissance and surveillance systems. The seventh fully integrated MEK aircraft delivery is part of a contract from the Army, which has acquired […] More
Gus Hunt, CEO of Hunt Technologies and former chief technology officer of CIA, has joined the federal business arm of VAST Data as a board member, responsible for advising the subsidiary on securing opportunities from and doing business with its public sector customers. VAST Federal said Thursday Hunt will support its continued federal expansion efforts […] More
Microsoft has partnered with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to help the latter expand its climate modeling capacity through artificial intelligence services and cloud-based predictive analytics tools. The company and ERDC will use the Azure Government cloud computing service for a code scalability demonstration of an integrated modeling system designed to enable […] More
Carahsoft Technology has added Kofax to its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 contract, a vehicle used by the U.S. Army to acquire software and hardware products and related services in support of its enterprise infrastructure goals. Kofax said Tuesday its software, software maintenance and ancillary services will be made available to federal agencies […] More
Northrop Grumman will open a 60,000-sq. ft engineering and hypersonic production facility at its Elkton, Maryland campus in support of U.S. military efforts in developing and manufacturing hypersonic weapons for combating evolving threats. The company said Tuesday it has broken ground on the planned Hypersonics Center of Excellence where the design, development, production and integration […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 13, 2021 — Nazzic Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., has welcomed the addition of Halfaker and Associates employees to the company following its $250 million acquisition of the Arlington, Virginia-based provider of digital services, data analytics, cybersecurity and cloud offerings to government agencies, GovCon Wire reported July 6. “Together, […] More
