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Peraton taps former CIA deputy director as VP
Herndon-based government contractor Peraton Inc. has named Andrew Hallman as its vice president for national security strategy and integration, according to a news release. Hallman formerly served as principal executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and was the CIA’s deputy director for digital inn[...]
GDIT awarded $661M EPA contract
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. has received a $661.6 million contract to modernize and manage IT services for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award, announced April 28, includes developing and operating the EPA’s enterprise IT infrastructure and applications. Services include cloud computing, platform management, network operations, enterprise identity access management and cybersecur[...]
Harder, better, faster, stronger
On March 20, 1922, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier: the USS Langley. A century later, the Navy is hosting centennial events around the country, including in Norfolk, where the USS Langley was converted into the Navy’s first carrier from the USS Jupiter, the Navy’s first electrically propelled ship. The [...]
Chantilly-based American Systems adds board member
Chantilly-based American Systems has appointed its vice president of human resources, Chris Braccio, to the employee-owned federal IT and engineering contractor’s board of directors. Braccio, who has worked for American Systems since 2007, will take over a board seat vacated by Joe Kopfman, who retired after 43 years of se[...]
Leesburg environmental firm wins $136.9M NOAA contract
Leesburg-based environmental contracting firm Lynker has received a $136.9 million, five-year contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide scientific support to the National Weather Service’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Work is expected to begin Sept. 1 and will be performed at the weather services’ Environmental Modeling Center in College Park, Maryland, […][...]
HII’s Mission Technologies division names new VP
Huntington Ingalls Industries has named Henry Choi as its new vice president of business development for cyber, electronic warfare and space for its McLean-based Mission Technologies division. Choi will be responsible for business growth, strategy and customer engagement, according to an announcement Monday by Newport News-based[...]
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 […]
Booz Allen to sell Middle East/N. Africa biz
New York-based management consulting firm Oliver Wyman announced last week that it has entered an agreement to acquire McLean-based Fortune 500 global management consultant Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.’s business serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close [...]
Mark Esper joins Tysons venture capital firm
Mark Esper, who led the Pentagon from 2019 to 2020, has joined Tysons-based incubation and venture capital firm Red Cell Partners LLC as a partner and chair of its national security practice, according to a news release. Esper will lead Red Cell’s investment activities in cyber, defense, security, international affairs, sp[...]
Newport News-based ITA receives $78M Air Force contract
Newport News-based ITA International LLC has received a $78 million contract from the Air Force for security support services at multiple locations across Central Command. The work, on behalf of the Ninth Air Force Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, includes base operations, administration, plans, security forces training and military exercises at bases in the United Arab […]
CACI receives $258M task order to continue DOD work
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor CACI International Inc. has received a $258 million task order for expansion and continued modernization of the Department of Defenses’ business systems, according to a news release. The award falls under a Defense Logistics Agency’s J6 Enterprise Technology Services indefinite d[...]
Northrop Grumman awarded nearly $200M in DOD contracts
Falls Church-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded two contracts worth nearly $200 million to complete projects for the Navy, according to a March 31 Department of Defense announcement. One contract, worth more than $98 million, calls for providing materials, including sensors, assemblies and battery kits to support the Navy’s Large […]
