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in Contract Awards, NewsMcKean Defense Lands Navy Contract for Code 516 Program Support Services
McKean Defense Group has received a five-year, $20.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division to support Code 516's hull, mechanical and electrical controls programs under the Future Surface Combatant project.
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Raytheon, NASA Build Cloud Platform to Store Sentinel-6 Satellite Data; David Appel Quoted
Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has worked with NASA to develop a cloud-based platform meant to help the agency distribute and archive data from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich climate monitoring satellite. “The data storage challenge becomes that much greater with the petabytes upon petabytes of data that satellites generate every day," said David Appel, vice president of defense and civil solutions at Raytheon Intelligence and Space.
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GSA Reports $557M in Government Contracts Awarded to Women-Owned Small Businesses in FY20
A new General Services Administration report says the agency awarded $557 million in federal government contracts to women-owned small businesses in fiscal year 2020. The value represents approximately 10 percent of GSA's total eligible spend of $5.3 billion in the said year.
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Maxar EVP of Global Field Operations Tony Frazier Receives Fifth Wash100 Award; Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson Quoted
Tony Frazier, executive vice president of Global Field Operations at Maxar Technologies, was announced as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, the most coveted honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), Executive Mosaic announced on Wednesday. This marks the fifth-time that Frazier has received a Wash100 Award in the eight year history of the award.Â
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in Executive Moves, NewsEnlightenment Capital Taps Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson for Advice & Counsel; Devin Talbott Quoted
Jeh Johnson, a partner at law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and former secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, has been appointed to offer advice and counsel to Vienna, Virginia-based private equity firm Enlightenment Capital. Johnson will rely on his over 30-year public and private sector experience to provide legal assistance to the Enlightenment Capital as part of the engagement agreement, the firm said Tuesday.
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Veritas Capital CEO, Managing Partner Ramzi Musallam Receives Sixth Consecutive Wash100 Award; Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson Quoted
Ramzi Musallam, managing partner and CEO of Veritas Capital, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award for leading a large number of multi-billion dollar acquisitions to drive exponential growth for the company, Executive Mosaic announced on Tuesday. This marks the sixth consecutive year that Musallam has received the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon).
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Mercury Systems CEO Mark Aslett Named to 2021 Wash100 for Driving Revenue Growth; Leading Company’s COVID-19 Relief Efforts
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Mark Aslett, CEO of Mercury Systems, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for making key acquisitions and driving company revenue and value while also pushing for COVID-19 relief to address the unique challenges created in 2020. This marks the first Wash100 Award win for Aslett.
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in Contract Awards, NewsSPA Receives DOD Contract for Acquisition & Sustainment Support Services
Systems Planning and Analysis will provide services to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment in support of its acquisition policy and organizational planning as well as portfolio and program management activities under a five-year $33 million contract.
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Tetra Tech Secures Spot on $2B USAF Contract for Facility Modernization, Sustainment Projects; Dan Batrack Quoted
Tetra Tech has won a potential $2 billion multiple-award contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for global architecture and engineering design services in support of sustainment, restoration, modernization of military facilities and infrastructure. “Tetra Tech has a 30-year history of working with the USAF under various global architect-engineer services contracts,†said Dan Batrack, chairman and CEO of Tetra Tech.
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in Contract Awards, NewsGlobal Air Logistics and Training to Manufacture Prototype Airborne Payloads for Marine Corps
Global Air Logistics and Training will build and deliver four prototype airborne networking and communication systems to the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory under a $23.9 million contract. The Fused Integrated Naval Network communications gateway is designed to work with an unmanned air vehicle to explore the sharing of data between distributed forces, GALT said Monday.
