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Retired British Army Brig. Gen. Paul Tennant. Photo courtesy Huntington Ingalls Industries.
Oct 25, 2023

HII names new VP of engagement, intl. gov relations

Huntington Ingalls Industries has named retired British Army Brig. Gen. Paul Tennant corporate vice president of engagement and international government relations, the Newport News-based shipbuilder announced Wednesday. Tennant will be located in HII’s Arlington office and will work on national security policy and future force[...]

Arlington County-based RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corp., unveiled its new name and logo at the Paris Air Show June 19 2023.
Oct 24, 2023

RTX to sell cyber, intelligence biz for $1.3B amid Q3 slump

RTX has agreed to sell its cybersecurity, intelligence and services business segment for about $1.3 billion and announced a $10 billion stock buyback program Tuesday as it seeks to recover from a manufacturing quality issue in a jetliner engine that has plagued the Arlington County-based Fortune 500 defense and aerospace contrac[...]

Oct 18, 2023

MindPetal to acquire VerticalApps

Vienna-based government contractor MindPetal has entered into an agreement to purchase Arlington County-based IT firm VerticalApps, the companies announced Tuesday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. MindPetal and VerticalApps hope to become “a premier [artificial intelligence/machine learning] firm b[...]

An Air and Marine Operations crew aboard a King Air 350 uses the Minotaur. Photo by Ozzy Trevino.
Oct 17, 2023

HII secures $244M software integration contract

A McLean-based division of Huntington Ingalls Industries received a $244 million contract integrating software for the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, the Newport News-based Fortune 500 military shipbuilder announced Tuesday. Under the five-year, Naval Air Systems Command task order, HII’s Mission Technologies division wil[...]

Oct 17, 2023

Amentum wins $327M Army contract

Chantilly-based federal contractor Amentum Services has won a U.S. Army contract worth up to $326.9 million, the company announced Monday. Under the five-year contract, Amentum will engineer, integrate and test prototype technologies for the Army’s command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance a[...]

In March 2021, General Dynamics was awarded a $2.4 billion contract option to build a 10th Virginia-class submarine in collaboration with Newport News Shipbuilding. Photo by Ashley Cowan/Newport News Shipbuilding
Oct 11, 2023

HII, General Dynamics sued by marine engineers

A group of naval engineers filed a federal class action lawsuit on Oct. 6 against 20 large government contractors and shipbuilders, including Virginia-based General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries, claiming that the corporations have for decades “maintained an illegal agreement not to actively recruit, or ‘[...]

Oct 11, 2023

HII’s Mission Technologies wins $347M Navy contract

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ McLean-based Mission Technologies will build nine undersea drones for the Navy’s Lionfish System program in a deal that could grow to as many as 200 vehicles during the next five years, with a total value of more than $347 million. Newport News-based HII announced the contract Wednesday[...]

Oct 9, 2023

Newport News Shipbuilding names trades VP

Newport News Shipbuilding has promoted a third-generation shipbuilder to vice president of trades. David Horne has served since 2022 as senior director of trades. His promotion comes following a split of the shipbuilder’s human resources and administration department and trades department into two standalone groups. Xavier[...]

Oct 3, 2023

Wagner named CEO for Agile Defense

Reston-based Agile Defense, an IT solutions provider for national security customers and the U.S. Department of Defense, has named Rick Wagner as its new top executive. Wagner previously led Microsoft’s $5 billion federal arm until Candice Ling took over the role during the summer. Agile announced the leadership change in [...]

Oct 2, 2023

VSE calls off $100M sale of business to equity firm

Alexandria-based distribution and maintenance provider VSE Corp. has called off an agreement to sell off its federal and defense segment for up to $100 million to Louisiana-based private equity firm Bernhard Capital Partners. The deal was announced in May, and the companies said in a news release Wednesday that they mutually agreed to terminate the […]

Sep 28, 2023

Propelling forward

A massive building is rising on the northernmost point of Newport News Shipbuilding on the James River, physical evidence of the shipyard’s ambitious plan to build the Navy’s next generation of Virginia-class submarines as well as components for a dozen Columbia-class boats. Not as visible, but just as important as the new M[...]

Sep 28, 2023

A bigger piece of the pie

For the past 15 years, Vibhaa Vermani has led a successful woman-owned small government contracting business, providing integrated technical solutions and services to numerous U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Internal Revenue Service. Vermani’s Virginia Beach-based company, Chitra, is one o[...]

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