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The U.S. Army has awarded General Electric‘s aviation subsidiary a potential five-year, $45.8 million contract for support work on T700 engines that currently power various multiple aircraft platforms. GE Aviation will perform work under the indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through Sept. 24, 2021, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for […] More
Carahsoft Technology has added the identity and mobility management offerings of Okta to Carahsoft’s General Services Administration schedule to help public sector customers deploy new applications in a secure environment. As Okta’s master government aggregator, Carahsoft will also offer the former’s cloud-based products to agencies and channel partners via NASA’s SEWP V contract vehicle, Carahsoft said Tuesday. The partnership aims to […] More
Luke Tenery, former associate managing director of Kroll’s cybersecurity and investigations practice, has been appointed as senior managing director for the cybersecurity practice at Ankura Consulting Group‘s risk, resilience and geopolitical group. Ankura said Monday Tenery will be based in the company’s Chicago office and brings 15 years of cyber incident investigations and forensics, data privacy and […] More
Jack Keane, former vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army and a retired four-star general, has joined AM General as executive chairman of the military and commercial vehicles manufacturer. AM General said Tuesday he will collaborate with President and CEO Andy Hove as well as the company’s parent corporation MacAndrews & Forbes to implement strategic growth initiatives. Hove said that […] More
ThreatConnect will install Symantec Cyber Security Services‘ reputation data feeds on the former’s intelligence-driven defense platform in an effort to advance threat intelligence and management functions for users. The ThreatConnect platform will work to provide access to Symantec’s DeepSight Intelligence data feeds, provide insight on threat intelligence data and allow users to operate on the intelligence within […] More
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has visited the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin and met with the shipbuilders and sailors of the Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship program. Mabus saw the six LCS ships currently in construction under the Lockheed Martin-led team during his tour of the shipyard, the company said Monday. The team has delivered four Freedom-variant LCS to the Navy […] More
A Deloitte report says the total cost overrun for initiatives under the major defense acquisition program portfolio rose from $295 billion in 2008 to $468 billion in 2015. The consulting firm said Monday the Defense Department’s MDAP portfolio in 2015 recorded a 48.3 percent growth in cost with nearly 30 months in average schedule delays. The report is […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential eight-year, $174 million contract to develop, test and certify RL10 upper stage engines for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. NASA said Saturday the contract will run through Feb. 29, 2024 and covers the production of 10 RL10C-3 engines and two spare engines in support of the SLS rocket’s second and third space flights […] More
Microsoft and Riverbed Technology have partnered to offer government customers access to application performance management tools designed to support information technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Riverbed said Tuesday its SteelHead CX can now be purchased via Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud marketplace while Riverbed’s SteelCentral AppInternals platform will be available to agencies in the first quarter of 2017. “Federal agencies are seeking technology solutions that help […] More
JOHN MARTINEZ VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL RAYTHEON – INTELLIGENCE, INFORMATION AND SERVICES (IIS) John Martinez is vice president and general counsel for Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS) business. Raytheon Company, with 2015 sales of $23 billion and 61,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions.  In […] More
The U.S. Air Force has renewed Telos’ licenses to perform system security reviews in support of the Defense Department’s cybersecurity authorization process. The Air Force Space Command renewed the company’s General and Special Agent of the Security Control Assessor licenses that seek to authorize Telos to test systems, applications, networks and platform information technology security […] More
ICF has secured a potential three-year, $14 million recompete task order for information technology support to National Institutes of Health‘s office of the chief information officer. ICF said Monday it will provide IT management, strategic advisory, planning and research services intended to help the NIH OCIO address technology requirements across the agency. The company will also conduct market research, studies […] More
