ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/20/2021

John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said that when it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the Reston, Virginia-based government services contractor is interested in buying assets that could fill gaps in capabilities, past performance and customer relationships, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “We’re going to be […]

Northrop Grumman has won a four-year, $82.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Army for services in support of the Planning Programming Budgeting Business Operating System. The Army Contracting Command selected Northrop following an online solicitation that gathered two proposals, the Department of Defense said Friday. Northrop will conduct work in Washington, D.C., through Sept. […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has completed the final acceptance trials of the U.S. Navy’s future Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. Kari Wilkinson, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, said in a statement published Friday the recent milestone brings the DDG 121, named after the Marine Corps’ first African-American general officer, one step […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded an $85 million modification to indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with five companies for construction work in the U.S. Southeast region. The companies build, modify, renovate, repair and demolish facilities including training spaces, dormitories, airfield, hangars and aircraft traffic control stations under the multiple award contracts, the Department of Defense said Friday. Work […]

Mathew Soltis, vice president of cloud solutions at General Dynamics‘ information technology business, has identified three areas where cloud computing is improving public sector health care, Federal News Network reported Friday. Speaking at the Federal News Network Cloud Exchange program, he pointed out that the cloud is enhancing data-related activities for health care research, assisting […]

AAR has received a $41 million firm-fixed-price contract to convert the B737-700 aircraft into a “FlexCombi” configuration for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. The aerospace and defense aftermarket solutions provider said Monday the reconfiguration is meant to increase NNSA’s fleet size and give the agency the flexibility to convert aircrafts between passenger […]

Four companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $69 million contract to test and evaluate amphibious and ground combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. MCSC, which functions as the acquisition unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, received seven offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering support services to the Marine Corps Systems Command […]

A wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos has been awarded an initial $40.8 million contract to help in the development of sustainable human landing system concepts in support of NASA’s lunar exploration transportation services. Under the firm-fixed-price, milestone-based contract, Dynetics will execute risk-reduction activities and deliver feedback on the requirements of the space agency to foster […]

Boeing has announced a future Illinois-based facility that, upon completion in 2024, will house the production of carrier-based unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The company said Friday the 300,000-square-foot facility within the MidAmerica St. Louis Airport will implement robotic automation, advanced assembly approaches and other manufacturing processes and tools to produce the MQ-25 […]

The Department of Health and Human Services has made a five-year blanket purchase agreement with TurningPoint Global Solutions for management of mobile devices and services at its Office of Inspector General headquarters and 10 regional and 80 field offices. The Rockville, Maryland-based company will deploy wireless mobility services that include a web portal intended for […]