VT Group announced on Tuesday that the company has acquired DELTA Resources, Inc. to enhance its specialization in naval systems engineering and technical services for the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding and modernization programs.

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A consortium of Polish state-owned defense companies intends to start exclusive further negotiations with Lockheed Martin on the development of a mobile artillery missile launcher system for Poland’s armed forces. The Polish Armament Group selected Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System offering as the basis of the country’s Homar program, the company said Friday. The program […] More

Alan Haggerty, a retired U.S. Navy captain and former deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, has joined The Beacon Group as senior adviser at the company’s aerospace and defense and government practice. Beacon said Wednesday that Haggerty has leadership experience in the naval technology development, system acquisition and innovation areas. “His knowledge in defense […] More

More than 80 industry groups and technology companies have called on House and Senate lawmakers to pass a bipartisan bill that aims to provide the public access to government data, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. Eleanor Lamb writes civil society groups and businesses urged Congress to act on the Open, Permanent, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act […] More

Rockwell Collins has formed a new business group that will provide connectivity and flight planning services to government aviation customers worldwide. The new government aviation services group within Rockwell Collins’ information management services unit aims to help clients schedule airborne assets on short notice and deliver field data to aircrews during operation, the company said Wednesday. The GAS organization will also offer satellite […] More

A threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks has found that a cyber espionage group has launched a new spear phishing attack against the U.S. government. The company said Tuesday its Unit 42 discovered that the Sofacy threat group, also called APT28, used a compromised email account linked to a foreign affairs ministry of another country […] More

A MeriTalk-formed industry advocacy group has developed a six-step plan that it believes the U.S. government should adopt to increase transparency and efficiency in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP Fast Forward said Monday it crafted the proposal in a move to encourage the federal government to implement a “do-once-use-many” approach to assess and […] More

Terence Raley serves as vice president of contracts and procurement at AECOM‘s government services unit and is a three-decade contract, acquisition and business management veteran. Raley previously served as a contracts VP for the company’s national security programs business. Before that, he was the director of operations for Computer Sciences Corp.‘s state and local solutions […] More

Kristie Steel, a senior financial management subject matter expert at Binary Group, has recommended best practices for contractors to increase satisfaction among their government clients. An outcome-based approach to project delivery could help vendors accelerate time to value as well as avoid potential cost issues, Steel wrote in a blog post published Wednesday. She says […] More

Albers Aerospace has made an investment in Lusby, Maryland-based Hop Flyt to help the latter further improve the design, develop and produce military versions of its electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Hop Flyt is working on military versions of three unmanned aircraft systems – Squall, Cyclone and Vortex – and Albers […] More

The Capital Group, a subsidiary of insurance distributor BRP Group, has created a unit with the goal of helping government contracting companies implement health care plans and programs for employees. GovCon Health group seeks to work with vendors serving the federal market to help them simplify the delivery of medical insurance benefits to their workforce, […] More

Executive Mosaic presents Haywood “Woody” Talcove, CEO of Government for LexisNexis Risk Solutions and LexisNexis Special Services, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award for the second consecutive year. Executive Mosaic congratulates Haywood Talcove for his 2021 Wash100 Award. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Woody Talcove as the most significant executive of consequence to the GovCon sector.

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