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Leidos awarded $197M CMS contract

Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor Leidos has won a new task order from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with an estimated total value of $197 million, the Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor announced Monday.

Under the hybrid firm-fixed-price, time and materials order, Leidos will provide IT support to the agency through its Office of Information Technology and the Infrastructure and User Support Group.

“We are delighted to extend our work with CMS in its transformative digital modernization journey, elevating the end-user experience to new heights,” Leidos Health Group President Liz Porter said in a statement. “With a steadfast commitment to innovation, Leidos is dedicated to delivering tailored solutions that align with the mission of CMS.”

In March, Leidos announced it received a prime contract and three subcontracts from CMS worth approximately $102 million. The prime contract was for OIT and IUSG support.

Leidos provides technology, engineering and science services to defense, intelligence, civil and health markets. The company employs 46,000 people and reported $14.4 billion in 2022 revenue. In May, Thomas Bell took over as the company’s CEO from Roger Krone, who led the company since 2014.

ManTech to acquire Definitive Logic

ManTech International Corp. on Tuesday signed an agreement to acquire Arlington County-based Definitive Logic in a deal that will add 330 employees to the Herndon-based federal contractor’s workforce.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Definitive Logic provides digital transformation consulting services and technology to defense, Homeland Security and federal civilian agencies. In a news release Tuesday, ManTech said the addition of Definitive Logic’s employees will expand the federal contractor’s suite of cloud, cyber, DevSecOps (development, security and operations) data engineering and artificial learning/machine learning capabilities as well as technology partnerships.

“With mission expansion and technology cycles accelerating at speed, our government customers rely on ManTech to bring our mission knowledge with our mastery of high-tech, high-end engineering, cyber and data solutions to solve their toughest security challenges,” ManTech CEO and President Matt Tait said in a statement. “Definitive Logic’s differentiated consulting and tailored technology solutions will further advance ManTech’s mission-focused strategy — ‘Bringing Digital to the Mission.’ We are very pleased to welcome their highly talented team, sophisticated capabilities and valued government customers.”

The acquisition is expected to close in early fall. ManTech provides technology solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence and federal civilian agencies. The company was acquired by The Carlyle Group for about $4.2 billion in September 2022. Tait succeeded former President and CEO Kevin Phillips, who retired and transitioned to chair of ManTech’s board soon thereafter.

Definitive Logic will maintain its Arlington office, company spokesperson Sheila S. Blackwell told Virginia Business in an email. Co-founder and CEO Paul Burke will lead the team and be part of ManTech’s growth and innovation organization, Blackwell said.

“For more than 20 years, Definitive Logic has earned its reputation as a trusted partner of government change agents,” Burke said in a statement. “We are proud of the transformation outcomes we have consistently delivered for the warfighter and taxpayer and are thrilled to double down on innovation and expand our capabilities as part of ManTech. … We look forward to capitalizing on the significant growth that both our company and employees will enjoy as part of a combined platform with enhanced scale, breadth, resources and career opportunities.”

Microsoft Federal sees leadership change

Microsoft Corp.’s federal arm has new leadership, after its former president, Rick Wagner, left the company to pursue “new opportunities.”

Wagner had run Microsoft Federal, now based in Rosslyn, since 2020. Candice Ling announced in a LinkedIn post this week that she had accepted his former job. Microsoft’s federal team works with the civilian and defense sectors on a variety of projects, and is part of the team on the Pentagon’s $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability Contract to build out cloud capabilities for the Department of Defense.

“Rick Wagner, president, Microsoft Federal, has decided to leave the company to pursue new opportunities,” a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to Virginia Business in an email Wednesday, adding that his departure was announced last week. “We are deeply grateful for his leadership and contributions to the company and wish him all the best in the future.”

Ling served as the federal sector’s civilian vice president since October 2021 and previously spent 19 years with Canadian consulting firm CGI Inc., most recently as a senior vice president in Fairfax. She joined Microsoft as a government industry leader in Asia in 2018.

Ling wrote in her LinkedIn post that she wants “to champion a public-private centered strategy, fostering co-innovation and accelerating time-to-mission. We are also dedicated to and laser-focused on accelerating AI adoption in support of your mission.” She went on to say she is “committed to fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and inclusivity while supporting each and every one of you to achieve your goals.”

Breaking Defense, a defense industry trade publication, reported that Wagner’s departure marks the third senior-level Microsoft executive with ties to the industry to leave in the last year. Toni Townes-Whitley, who stepped down as Microsoft’s president of U.S. regulated industries in September 2022, will become the new CEO of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) in October, succeeding Nazzic S. Keene.

In her LinkedIn post, Ling also announced that Heidi Kobylski will take over her previous role. Kobylski has spent more than 13 years at Microsoft, including as general manager of the federal civilian unit.

Amentum-led team receives $5.87B nuke cleanup contract

A team led by Chantilly-based federal contractor Amentum Services Inc. will manage the decontamination and decommissioning of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons complex under a $5.87 billion, 10-year contract announced by the U.S. Department of Energy Thursday.

Southern Ohio Cleanup Company LLC, based in Aiken, South Carolina, is a joint venture led by Amentum Environment and Energy Inc., and includes Texas-based Fluor Corp. and Cavendish Nuclear Inc, a subsidiary of London-based Babcock International Group. Under the contract, the companies will handle the demolition and disposal of facilities, process equipment, related process buildings and other ancillary facilities at the 3,777-acre Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The contract also includes remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater and disposition of uranium material.

The Ohio plant operated from 1954 to 2001 and was initially built to produce enriched uranium to support the nation’s nuclear weapons program and later switched to enriching uranium for commercial nuclear reactors. Weapons-grade uranium enrichment ceased at the site following the Cold War and production facilities were leased to the private sector.

“Amentum and our heritage companies have a long history of supporting the DOE’s environmental management program and have managed numerous decontamination and decommissioning projects across the DOE complex. Our extensive experience at the Oak Ridge Reservation enables us to bring advanced technical solutions to complete the work safely and effectively at Portsmouth,” Amentum CEO John Heller said in a statement Monday, referring to the company’s work at the Tennessee-based Superfund site established during World War II to process material for nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. “We will partner with our DOE client, regulators and community stakeholders to further advance the Department of Energy’s mission.”

Amentum moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly earlier this year. The company has more than 44,000 employees in 85 countries, including locations across Virginia in Alexandria, Arlington County, Chantilly, Dahlgren, Falls Church, Fredericksburg and Norfolk.

HII Mission Technology promotes two execs

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.’s McLean-based Mission Technologies division has promoted Garry Schwartz, formerly a group president, to chief operating officer on June 1. At the same time, the company also promoted Todd Gentry to president of the division’s C5ISR (command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) business group.

Schwartz joined HII in 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile. He previously led and expanded HII’s largest technology-centric business groups, HII’s Mission Technologies said in a news release. He has also worked in a senior leadership positions at McLean-based Alton Science and Technology, which was acquired by HII in 2021, as well as with Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor Science Applications International Corp. Schwartz retired from the Marine Corps in 2004 after more than two decades, serving as a commissioned officer as well as in the enlisted ranks in multiple combat tours. He has a master’s degree in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Gentry was previously senior vice president of Mission Technologies’ C5ISR business group. He joined HII in 2019 and has advanced in programmatic and operational leadership roles. Gentry also served as director of the advanced aviation assessment portfolio for the Army Aviation and Missile Command. He also served in various positions in direct support of the U.S. Special Operations Command and its service component commands. Gentry retired from the Army in 2013 after a quarter century.

“To drive growth and opportunity across the division, we continue to optimize business operations and overall performance,” Mission Technologies President Andy Green said in a statement. “Garry and Todd’s proven expertise building large business operations at HII, paired with their long history of success across the defense industry, demonstrates they are the exceptional leaders to support our customers’ missions and help us achieve our growth objectives.”

“I’m excited to continue working with them to expand the division and deliver advanced capabilities to the warfighters,” Green added.

CNSI-Kepro rebrands as Acentra Health

The health services tech company that formed from last year’s merger of McLean-based health care IT provider CNSI and Nashville, Tennessee-based health care management tech company Kepro is now branding itself as Acentra Health. The company announced the rebranding Tuesday.

“Our new company name and brand represent a new era and a transformational new company,” Acentra Health CEO Todd Stottlemyer, who previously led CNSI, said in a statement. “Acentra Health brings together a deep collective of expertise across all facets of the health care ecosystem that is unmatched in our industry today. Our team of technology and business experts, skilled clinicians and highly talented health care professionals work as one to help state and federal partners lead the way in accelerating better health outcomes for priority populations.”

The name Acentra is formed from the words “accelerate” and “central” and reflects the company’s resolve to be “vital partner” to public sector health agencies in delivering comprehensive health care solutions and services, Acentra said in a news release.  The company’s merger was completed in December 2022. At the time of the initial announcement, it said a rebrand would follow in 2023. The company will keep its locations in McLean and Nashville with McLean taking precedence as the company’s corporate headquarters. It is planning to launch a new website later this summer.

Acentra Health serves clients in all 50 states, and partners with 45 state Medicaid agencies and five federal agencies. The company has 3,000 employees and more than 4,500 credentialed clinicians, in addition to 450 physicians who serve on its advisory and review panel. The company manages and processes more than 1.5 billion claims and encounters and disburses over $26 billion in payments annually.

 

 

SAIC wins $889M defense contract

Reston-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has won an $889 million contract to develop and implement an information technology solution for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s systems, SAIC announced Tuesday.

As the prime contractor, SAIC will develop One IT, an enterprise IT solution with an adaptable infrastructure and customer support. The company’s work will include planning and systems architecture development; network, database and storage engineering; service desk support; and cybersecurity.

“As the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency transforms security work around the globe, SAIC looks forward to advancing support for user communities,” Michael LaRouche, president of SAIC’s national security and space sector, said in a statement. “Our goal is to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the agency’s One IT infrastructure by leveraging the experience of our proven team of cloud architects, modernization engineers and integration specialists.”

The contract has one base year and four one-year extension options.

SAIC employs approximately 25,000 people and reported $7.4 billion in fiscal year 2022 revenue.

ASRC Federal buys Manassas defense contractor

Reston-based ASRC Federal Holding Co. has acquired Manassas-based defense contractor Broadleaf Inc., ASRC announced Monday.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2009, Broadleaf is a U.S. Small Business Administration Certified Native Hawaiian Organization. The company provides information technology services and professional services. Broadleaf was No. 977 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of the U.S.’s fastest-growing privately held companies.

“Broadleaf is thrilled to join the ASRC Federal family,” Broadleaf President Vince Apesa said in a statement. “Our team is passionate about driving mission success for our customers, and we look forward to joining forces with the depth of resources and talent available at ASRC Federal to provide even greater value to those we serve.”

Nearly 600 Broadleaf employees will join ASRC Federal, and the acquisition adds Department of Defense and federal civilian customers to ASRC Federal’s portfolio.

“This acquisition strengthens and expands our presence within key [DOD] agencies while also providing growth opportunities with new customers,” ASRC Federal President and CEO Jennifer Felix said in a statement. “I know the high-performing team at Broadleaf will blend seamlessly with the ASRC Federal culture, and together we’ll continue to excel in the support of important customer missions.”

The Broadleaf acquisition follows a March announcement that ASRC Federal would buy Reston-based Science Applications International Corp.’s logistics and supply chain management business for $350 million in cash.

ASRC Federal is a federal government services subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corp., an Alaska Native corporation. Its family of companies provides engineering, IT, infrastructure and professional services support. ASRC Federal has about 8,000 employees and operations across 44 states, districts and territories.

BWXT wins potential $45B DOE contract

A joint venture led by BWX Technologies Inc. has won a federal contract worth up to $45 billion — its largest ever — from the U.S. Department of Energy to clean up a decommissioned nuclear production site in southeastern Washington state, the Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier announced Monday.

The Hanford Site Tank Farms has 177 underground waste storage tanks with 54 million gallons of nuclear waste produced by plutonium production, according to a 2021 federal report. The Department of Energy awarded the 10-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract (ITDC) to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure LLC (H2C), a joint venture led by BWXT’s Technical Services subsidiary that includes Amentum Environment & Energy Inc. and Fluor Federal Services Inc.

“This is the largest single contract award in our company’s history and is a stair-step achievement as we strengthen our leadership position in environmental restoration at highly technical projects across the nation,” BWXT President and CEO Rex Geveden said in a statement.

The federal government produced plutonium for more than 40 years, from 1943 to 1987, at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington. The DOE is repurposing the site to treat tank waste from the production period in an environmental cleanup. The site has 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste stored in 159 underground tanks, according to the DOE.

Low-activity radioactive waste will be removed and treated and eventually turned into a glass product through the vitrification process, which mixes the waste with glass-forming materials and heats it to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit so the waste bonds with the glass. Vitrification will occur at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, which contractor Bechtel National Inc. is constructing. Bechtel completed construction on the first phase of the facilities in January 2021, and the multiyear testing and commissioning period has begun.

Under the ITDC contract, H2C will operate tank farm facilities; design, construct and operate waste-receiving facilities and treatment capabilities; operate the eventual Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant; and oversee core project functions, including project management and environment, safety, health and quality functions.

Fortune 1000 company BWXT has roughly 7,000 employees and 14 major operating sites across the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

Rocket Lab to launch new hypersonic rocket from Va.

California-based Rocket Lab USA Inc. will launch its new Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) rocket in Accomack County in the first half of 2023.

The company introduced the suborbital testbed launch vehicle, derived from its Electron rocket, on Monday. Rocket Lab is preparing the HASTE vehicle for launch for a confidential customer at its integration and control facility on Wallops Island, according to a news release. The rocket will launch from the company’s Launch Complex 2 within Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, where the aerospace company launched its 60-foot-tall Electron rocket in January, its first launch from U.S. soil.

“Hypersonic and suborbital test capabilities are key priorities for the nation, yet the [Department of Defense’s] ability to test these systems has been limited,” Brian Rogers, Rocket Lab’s senior director of global launch services, said in a statement. “With HASTE, we’ve taken a proven vehicle in Electron and tailored it specifically to deliver highly capable, frequent and cost-effective hypersonic and suborbital test opportunities from our existing launch site in Virginia.”

Rocket Lab announced in February 2022 that it had selected Wallops Island as the location for its launch site and a new manufacturing and assembly complex for its new, reusable Neutron rocket, a move that is expected to bring 250 jobs.

Rocket Lab National Security, a wholly owned subsidiary, will primarily operate HASTE. HASTE will have a payload capacity of up to 1,540 pounds and options to accommodate larger payloads.

Since 2018, the Electron vehicle has deployed satellites for NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Space Force.

Dynetics, an Alabama-based wholly owned subsidiary of Reston-based Leidos Holdings Inc., has selected Rocket Lab to provide hypersonic test launch capability under a Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane division contract announced in October 2022. The Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit has also selected Rocket Lab to prototype hypersonic launch capability on HASTE in its hypersonic and high-cadence testing capabilities (HyCAT) program. In addition, the company completed a study for the Missile Defense Agency’s Targets and Countermeasures Program to evaluate a variety of payloads on HASTE, which could set the stage for future test flights, the company said in a news release.

Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron rocket and the Photon satellite platform and is developing the Neutron 13-ton payload class launch vehicle. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, the company has delivered 159 satellites to orbit for private and public organizations. Rocket Lab has two launch pads in New Zealand in addition to its pad in Virginia.