ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 7/27/2021

LMI has acquired Falls Church, Virginia-based business transformation and technology company Suntiva in a move to grow the consultancy’s digital and workforce-related offerings to federal government customers. Suntiva provides services to the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Army, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and other public health and defense clients, and LMI seeks to gain new customers […]

Science Applications International Corp. has won a potential five-year, $85 million contract to help the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Panama City Division update command and control systems for the U.S. Navy. The company said Tuesday it will engineer software, implement cloud computing technologies and provide cyber support for the branch’s Joint Expeditionary Command and Control […]

Jim Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the company plans to work with commercial technology and telecommunications sectors to improve the ability of legacy platforms, like the F-35 fighter jet, to process data and integrate new capabilities through open architecture, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Taiclet […]

Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure team at Forcepoint, said federal agencies should provide cybersecurity training to employees, particularly information technology professionals responsible for dealing with cyber breaches, in accordance with the current administration’s executive order on cybersecurity. Trexler wrote in an article posted Monday on Federal Times that agencies should […]

Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has received a $62.22 million order from the U.S. Navy for 190 parachutes and 56 drag chute systems needed for F-35 Lightning II fighter jet operations. The order will support the operational capabilities and meet the requirements of non-defense participants and Foreign Military Sales customers that deploy the F-35 aircraft, the […]

Technology consulting firm Raft has received a $36 million award to supply Kessel Run, the software development unit of the U.S. Air Force, with DevSecOps software engineering support, an open source system infrastructure and multiregion platform services. The nontraditional woman-owned small business said Monday that it will help the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center […]

Mac McMillan, founder of CynergisTek, has been reappointed to serve as the health care cybersecurity company’s president and CEO in addition to his current position as a board member. He assumed the dual position from Caleb Barlow, who will remain with the company for a 30-day transition period, CynergisTek said Monday. In a statement, McMillan […]

BAE Systems has secured a $117 million subcontract to manufacture updated seekers meant to enable target detection and engagement operations of a Lockheed Martin-made anti-ship missile. The subcontractor said Monday it will deliver its next generation seeker technology to Lockheed to reduce the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile‘s reliance on traditional navigation while pursuing maritime targets […]

Cubic has secured a U.S. Air Force task order worth over $10 million for the development of two prototype Small Form Factor Radio Phase 2 technologies. The company said Monday its mission and performance solutions business will work on an SFF Software Definable Radio variant and a generic Open Mission Systems/Open Communication Subsystem 3U VPX […]

ICF will continue helping Puerto Rico’s government implement a housing-focused disaster recovery program under a $13 million contract amendment awarded by the U.S. territory’s housing department. The company said Monday it performs program management work under the Single Family Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Relocation Program, which repairs homes affected by hurricanes Irma and Maria. ICF’s contract […]