ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 7/20/2021

CACI International has won a potential five-year, $1.4 billion single-award task order from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for continued delivery of mission expertise in support of efforts to counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and threat networks. Under the Decisive Action task order, CACI will provide DTRA with a broad range of analytical expertise to drive and […]

Comcast Government Services has secured two contracts, valued at $84.2 million and $71.6 million, to help the Defense Information Systems Agency modernize telecommunications circuits. The company will deliver Ethernet-based services for regions four and five of DISA’s Commercial Ethernet Gateway, with a goal to boost network performance, Comcast Business said July 13. The contracts are […]

Natasha Engan, senior vice president of Deltek‘s global consulting business since March 2017, has transitioned to a new role as SVP of global sales. Deltek said Tuesday it has also appointed three-decade company veteran Brian Daniell to serve as chief customer officer. Mike Corkery, president and CEO of Deltek and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, […]

ICF has received a $9 million contract from the U.S. Virgin Islands’ Labor Department to implement a workforce development program over the next two years in support of recovery efforts in the hurricane-stricken U.S. territory. The company said Monday it will provide strategic planning, stakeholder and performance management, workforce development training and other services as […]

Mike Mostow, previously the federal business vice president of Everbridge, has taken on a new role as the chief revenue officer of Fortem Technologies, a Pleasant Grove, Utah-based drone security company. In his new capacity, Mostow will spearhead and link the teams responsible for business development, sales, engineering, program management and customer success to enhance […]

A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary will continue to deliver Slocum gliders to the U.S. Navy under a potential 10-year, $39.2 million indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract in support of the service branch’s Littoral Battlespace Sensing-Glider program. Under the Navy contract with a five-year, $27.4 million base, Teledyne Brown Engineering and its sister company, Teledyne Webb Research, will lead the […]

Joe Thibodeau, most recently director of operations at BTI360, has been promoted to chief operating officer at the Ashburn, Virginia-based software development company. He will oversee company-wide operations and strategic planning functions in his new position, BTI360 said Wednesday. “I look forward to applying what I’ve learned over the past decade of software development, as well […]

Rhea Space Activity has received an award to research and develop a solar-thermal propulsion system that could be used by the U.S. Space Force for a deep-space lunar communications spacecraft. The company said Monday it will investigate a bi-modal propulsion system for the Scorpius spacecraft through a phase one award under the U.S. Air Force’s […]

Black & Veatch has received a federal funding from the Department of Energy to join a project initiated to advance direct air capture technology through research and development. Under a $2.5 million funding, the company will design a DAC system intended to gather 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions on a yearly basis, Black & […]

NASA has announced the completion of three testing milestones for its James Webb Space Telescope as the agency prepares for the observatory’s launch later this year aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The agency said Thursday one of the milestones is the final testing of the space telescope’s deployable tower assembly, which separates the mirrors and […]