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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[...]
EY taps 14 Virginians as Mid-Atlantic Entrepreneur of the Year finalists
Fourteen Virginia business leaders are among the 30 finalists for Ernst & Young’s 2024 Mid-Atlantic Entrepreneur of the Year award. EY announced the finalists, selected by a panel of independent judges, on April 22. The Big Four professional services company will name the regional awards winners on June 15. The Virginia finalists include: Anil Sharma, […]
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. […]
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[...]
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 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 […]
Noblis names new CIO
Reston-based Noblis will appoint Mark Lay as its vice president and chief information officer, the not-for-profit federal contractor announced Wednesday. Lay will take the place of Gail Hogan, who announced her retirement in December 2023 and whose last day is expected to be April 5. He will report to Gary Sladic, Noblis’ chief financial officer, […]
Leidos receives $158M Air Force contract
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor Leidos won a follow-on contract valued up to $158 million to develop and expand the Air Force’s Command and Control Incident Management Emergency Response Application, a government-owned software application system, the company announced Thursday. Kessel Run, a division within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, awarded the contract, which has [&[...]
McLean’s Iridium to purchase Satelles
McLean-based Iridium Communications, a global satellite communications company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, a Reston-based provider of satellite-based time and location services that serve as a backup for GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), Iridium announced Monday. Satelles’ positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) service is known as Satellite T[...]
Leidos wins $143M DIA contract
Reston-based Leidos won a contract worth an estimated $143 million from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Fortune 500 contractor announced Thursday. Under the single award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from DIA’s Science and Technology Directorate, Leidos will design and implement a tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED) system for the[...]
2024 BEST PLACES TO WORK — SMALL EMPLOYERS WINNER: Troika Solutions
“Partners, process, technology” is the tagline of Reston-based management and technology consulting firm Troika Solutions. In addition to valuing its partnerships with its military and government clients, this service– disabled veteran-owned small business has a keen focus on its partnership with its employees, says the company’s president and CEO, Kenneth Lasure. That’s [...]
Babel Street acquires Ohio data insights firm
Reston-based data analytics and threat intelligence tech company Babel Street has acquired Vertical Knowledge, a data products, insights and intelligence company based in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The acquisition — which has already closed — expands Babel Street’s data sourcing, enrichment and analysis capabilities, according to a news release from the two companies. Babel Street has [&hellip[...]
