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Defense Department

Jan 23, 2023

Prism Maritime receives $250M Navy contract

Chesapeake-based Prism Maritime LLC has received a contract valued up to $250.8 million to install, modify and upgrade various combat systems for the Navy, Coast Guard and for foreign militaries, according to the Pentagon. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-type contract, announced Friday, will continue through October 2027 if all options are exercised. Work will be performed on […]

Jan 23, 2023

VersAbility Resources lands $140M Air Force contract

Hampton-based VersAbility Resources Inc. has received a $140.7 million contract to support mail and postal service center support at Air Force installations across the U.S., the Pentagon announced Friday. The firm-fixed-price, indefinitely delivery contract was a sole source acquisition and work is expected to be complete by Jan. 17, 20s3. Founded in 1953, VersAbility Resources […]

Oct 12, 2022

Leidos receives $1.5B DOD task order

Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor Leidos has received a task order valued up to $1.5 billion to support the Department of Defense with technology to enhance its Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) missions, the company announced Wednesday. Under the contract, Leidos will focus on the rapid insertion of technologies [...]

Jul 25, 2022

Acuity International receives $127M Air Force contract

Reston-based Acuity International LLC has received a $127 million Air Force contract to provide base operational and security support for Iraq’s F-16 program, the Department of Defense announced Friday. Under the contract, work will be performed at Iraq’s Martyr Brigadier General Ali Flaih Air Base and is expected to be completed by Jan. 30, 2023. […]

Jun 21, 2022

Northrop Grumman division lands $458M Navy contract

A division of Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $458 million contract to support the Navy‘s Columbia and Dreadnought Fleet Ballistic Missile Program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Friday. Under the cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Northrop Grumman’s Marine Systems in Sunnyvale, California, will provide fiscal 2022 through 2026 shipyard [...]

Apr 15, 2022

Herndon analytics firm taps new president and CFO

Herndon-based data analytics firm Illuminate has named Tameika Hollis as president and Scott Crane as chief financial officer, according to an April 12 announcement. Hollis previously served as Illuminate’s chief operations officer and joined the company in 2020 after nearly 17 years as a program manager and executive at Northrop Grumman, according to her LinkedIn […]

Apr 13, 2022

Va. Tech to lead cybersecurity workforce initiative

Virginia Tech has received a $1.5 million award to lead an initiative that could help close a gap in the cybersecurity workforce. The award, announced April 5, comes from the nonprofit Griffiss Institute, a New York-based STEM and defense technology incubator that runs the Department of Defense’s Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research […]

Mar 1, 2022

Reston-based Leidos wins $11B defense contract

Reston-based Leidos Holdings Inc. has won an $11.5 billion contract to consolidate and streamline the Department of Defense’s Fourth Estate information technology into one common network, the Pentagon announced Monday. Under the contract, Leidos is expected to modernize, transform and unify nearly two dozen defense agencies and field activities — Defense Department organizations other than[...]

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