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Sterling drone-jamming firm to be acquired by Taser maker Axon
May 7, 2024

Sterling drone-jamming firm to be acquired by Taser maker Axon

Dedrone, a Sterling-based maker of drone-jamming and detection devices, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Scottsdale, Arizona-based Taser manufacturer Axon Enterprise. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2024, the companies announced Monday, and terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dedrone’s portable gunlike jammers can thwart aerial drones […]

Leidos wins $600M contract to support Army Geospatial Center
May 7, 2024

Leidos wins $631M Army contract

Leidos has received a $631 million U.S. Army contract for life-cycle support of aerial sensors, the Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor announced Tuesday. Under the Development, Integration, Acquisitions, Bridging to Logistics and Operations (DIABLO) contract, the company will provide equipment for the next 10 years. Leidos will develop, acquire, field and provide life-cycle support to aerial [&he[...]

Leidos wins $600M contract to support Army Geospatial Center
May 2, 2024

Leidos receives potential $206M NGA contract

Leidos has won a contract valued up to $206 million from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor announced Wednesday. Under the single-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, dubbed Maru, Leidos will sustain and modernize geospatial processing for the NGA’s Exploitation Services Program. The contract extends existing software ser[...]

Boeing CEO to step down by end of year
Apr 29, 2024

Boeing CEO to step down by end of year

In late March, Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun said he would step down by the end of the year. The announcement came amid ongoing bad press over production problems and fallout from a high-profile January incident in which a 4-foot wall panel blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet cabin in mid-air. […]

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Apr 25, 2024

Leidos promotes chief information officer

Alexandra Guenther became Leidos’ chief information officer March 11, according to a spokesperson for the Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor.  Guenther previously worked as program vice president for the civil operation of the Antarctic support contract at Leidos, where she led a cross-functional team of more than a thousand employees, according to her LinkedIn page. […]

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Apr 24, 2024

Guidehouse lands $12B ICBM support contract

McLean-based consultancy Guidehouse has won a contract valued up to $12 billion for systems engineering supporting the Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missiles fleet, although the initial contract awardee has filed a protest. The single-award contract, announced Feb. 28 by the Defense Department and April 15 by Guidehouse, is the Integration Support Contract 2.0. Guidehouse was [&hell[...]

Federal Contractors | Technology
Apr 22, 2024

CACI wins up to $1.3B defense contract

CACI International won an up to $1.3 billion defense contract supporting the U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command, the Reston-based Fortune 1000 contractor announced Monday. Under the five-year task order, CACI will provide communications and information technology solutions, modernizing critical software and hardware, optimizing network IT and communications and providing support for mor[...]

L3Harris announces $41.2M Orange County expansion
Apr 18, 2024

L3Harris announces $41.2M Orange County expansion

Florida-based aerospace and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies announced on Thursday a $41.2 million expansion and modernization of its Aerojet Rocketdyne facility in Orange County, with plans to add 80 employees.  Over the next three years, L3Harris also plans to construct new facilities and buy new equipment for the facility, according to a statement from the […]

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Apr 17, 2024

Virginia Black Chamber to host first govcon conference

The founders of the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce decided to provide a venue for Black business owners to learn how to find success with government contracting.  “We wanted to just bring together all of our business owners or people who are interested in potentially looking into local, state and government contracting,” said Tracey J. […]

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN GOODMAN
Apr 16, 2024

Accenture Federal Services to acquire Cognosante

Arlington County-based Accenture Federal Services (AFS) has entered into an agreement to acquire Falls Church-based Cognosante, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory review, were not disclosed in the announcement released Tuesday by the two companies. Cognosante’s more than 1,500 employees will join AFS’ workforce of more than 14,000[...]

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Apr 11, 2024

Reston software firm boosted by $60M investment

Raft, a Reston-based software engineering firm and government contractor, has received a $60 million investment from Washington Harbour Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based private investment firm. Founded in 2018, Raft will use the funds to “intensify its research and development efforts, significantly enhancing its command and control (C2) product offerings for the tactical edge,” acco[...]

SAIC wins potential $1.11B Navy contract
Apr 4, 2024

SAIC lands potential $494M NASA contract

Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded a safety and mission assurance support contract from NASA worth up to $494 million. The federal agency announced it had selected SAIC for the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract III on March 29, and the contract period begins June 1. SMAEC […]

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