The Navy has discontinued further deliveries of Lockheed Martin’s Freedom-class littoral combat ship until a material defect found in the warship’s combining gear can be fixed. According to a statement released by the Navy, the defect affects a complex transmission that transmits power generated by the ship’s engines to its waterjet propulsion system. Rear Adm. […]
Agile Decision Sciences, an ASRC Federal subsidiary, has secured the $212M NASA Research and Education Support Services-II contract. Under the terms of the five-year contract, ADS will offer professional services and IT support to strengthen NASA’s peer review life cycle and the research objectives of four directorates, namely the Aeronautics Research Mission, Human Exploration and […]
Michael Dumais has been appointed as the new chief transformation officer of Raytheon Technologies. The role puts Dumais in charge of corporate strategy and development functions, with emphasis on accelerating the company’s strategic transformation initiatives. He will lead efforts to capitalize on key market opportunities, digitally enabling key business processes and reducing cost, the company […]
A $1.9T stimulus package announced by President-elect Joe Biden pushes initiatives to modernize federal information technology in an effort to defend against future cyberattacks. The American Rescue Plan earmarks $9B for the Technology Modernization Fund to help launch new IT and cybersecurity shared services at the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency and the General Services […]
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville intends to use a pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy equipment funded by the Department of Defense to move forward with a hypersonics fuel research project. The Py-GC/MS instrument, which will be used by the university’s Propulsion Research Center, was purchased through a $186K DOD grant awarded […]
A joint venture between Granite and Healy Tibbitts Builders has landed a spot on the $750M Waterfront Multiple Award Construction Contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest. As part of the contracting pool for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity MACC, the Granite-Healy Tibbitts JV will compete for task orders requiring new construction, repair and renovation of NAVFAC […]
John DuBois has been serving as NTT DATA Services’ vice president of digital operations for nearly two years now. Since assuming the role in April 2019, he has helped foster innovation across clients’ applications, data centers, networks, end-user services and business processes. DuBois has also played a key role in creating new digital offerings, defining […]
Tom Frana is the president, chief executive officer and chairman of ViON, a Herndon, Virginia-based provider of information technology enterprise solutions, including hybrid cloud implementations, infrastructure as a service, artificial intelligence solutions and hardware and software for data management and analytics. As ViON’s leader since 1992, Frana was central to the company’s evolution from a […]
Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and 2020 Wash100 winner, has raised concerns about the acquisition of medium-sized companies by larger defense contractors and its impacts on the defense industrial base at large. Speaking at a recent press event, Roper said he considers some of the major acquisitions […]
Jacobs is set to provide waterfront facilities inspection and assessment services for the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center under a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The IDIQ, which covers facilities outside the contiguous United States, calls for field investigations including underwater inspections; design of facility repairs; underwater geotechnical and above water surveying; engineering analysis of […]
