Leidos shakes up C-suite in restructuring
Months after new Leidos CEO Tom Bell hinted at a “new North Star” for the Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor, the company has announced a shakeup of its C-suite and a reorganization. The company solidified the changes Thursday, two days after releasing its third-quarter report, which included revenues of $3.9 billio[...]
Northrop Grumman awarded up to $732M for satellite contract
Fortune 500 Falls Church defense contractor Northrop Grumman will build 38 data transport satellites for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency under a contract valued up to $732 million as the agency builds out a space-based communications network. The work, announced Monday by the agency, falls under Tranche 2 T[...]
Northrop Grumman CEO to chair Greater Washington Partnership
Northrop Grumman chair, CEO and president Kathy Warden is adding a new title to her résumé. On Jan. 1, 2024, Warden will officially take over as chair of the Greater Washington Partnership. She will be the first woman, first nonfounder and first CEO of a global company to lead the board for the partnership, a […]
GDIT lands $450M CMS contract
Falls Church-based federal contractor General Dynamics Information Technology won a $450 million Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contract, the General Dynamics subsidiary announced Thursday. Under the contract, GDIT will continue operating and modernizing CMS’ Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS), an accounting system that standardizes federal financial accounting for the centers’ programs. HI[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 ‘[...]
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[...]
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[...]