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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 agencie[...]
Fairfax-based Guidehouse names chief human resources officer
Fairfax-based Guidehouse has named Jamila Taylor as its chief human resources officer. Taylor joined the consultancy in 2019 to help build its human resources functions and later that year was named partner and lead of Guidehouse’s shared services function. In her new role, Taylor will focus on strategy, talent acquisition[...]
PAE lands $111.7M contract from U.S. Army
PAE Applied Technologies LLC has been awarded a contract worth $111.7 million for the operations, maintenance and repair work at the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany, the Department of Defense announced Monday. The contract includes maintenance and repair of installed building equipment, equipment-in-place, minor co[...]
PAE’s former head named Amentum CEO
John Heller, the former CEO of Falls Church-based contractor PAE Inc., will serve as CEO of Germantown, Maryland-based aerospace defense contractor Amentum Services Inc., which purchased PAE earlier this month. Heller, who led PAE for seven years until March 2021, will take his new post effective March 28, Amentum announced Thur[...]
Amentum seals deal on $1.9B PAE acquisition
The $1.9 billion, all-cash acquisition of Falls Church-based government contractor PAE Inc. (Pacific Architects and Engineers) by an affiliate of Germantown, Maryland-based aerospace defense contractor Amentum Services Inc. has closed, the two companies have announced. The deal, which closed Feb. 15, was first announced in Oct[...]
Noblis announces new CEO
Noblis Inc. President and CEO Amr ElSawy will step away in October after 15 years leading the company, the Reston-based not-for-profit federal contractor announced this week. Mile Corrigan, senior vice president of Noblis’ Federal Civilian Solutions (FCS) division, has been named executive vice president and will become pr[...]
Northrop Grumman wins $341M contract to develop deep space radar
Falls Church-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a $341 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop and test a ground-based surveillance radar in support of its Space Domain Awareness mission, the contractor announced Wednesday. The Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability is expected to enh[...]
Fairfax-based Guidehouse names chief technology officer
Fairfax-based Guidehouse has named Dan Hushon to lead its technology efforts. As chief technology officer, Hushon will lead transformational activities as Guidehouse speeds delivery of digital solutions for its commercial and public sector clients. He will also lead the company’s next generation cloud computing solutions a[...]
Northrop Grumman secures $252M Marine Corps contract
Falls Church-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. landed a $252 million contract to produce and test a handheld precision ground targeting system for the U.S. Marine Corps, the Department of Defense announced Thursday. Under the hybrid, follow-on contract, Northrop Grumman will work on the Next Generation Targeting Handheld System, a lightweight, man-portable system […][...]
Manassas bio research supplier wins $5.5M in federal grants
Manassas-based biological materials management nonprofit American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) announced Tuesday that it won three Defense Threat Reduction Agency grants valued at more than $5.5 million to identify new therapeutic approaches to viruses. “ATCC is committed to supporting this global health initiative by pr[...]
GDIT secures $162M DISA Agency contract
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. (GDIT) announced Wednesday it had secured a potential $162 million contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to secure identity, access and account management for U.S Department of Defense applications. The Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Phase III production agreement has a […][...]
Peraton lands $2.69B Homeland Security contract
Federal contractor Peraton Inc.’s subsidiary, Perspecta Engineering Inc., landed a potential 10-year, almost $2.69 billion contract to assist the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the company announced Wednesday. Under the indefinite quantity, indefinite quantity contract, Peraton will assist with Data Center and Cloud Opt[...]
