ManTech Acquires Former CSC Subsidiary, Welkin Associates
ManTech International (NASDAQ: MANT) has acquired former Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) subsidiary Welkin Associates under a $34 million cash transaction. Welkin was founded in 1988 and delivers mission-centric services in high-end systems engineering to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense (DoD). The acquisition positions ManTech to pursue large engineering and support...
FAA Enlists Harris Tech to Address NAS Weather-Related Delays
TYSONS CORNER, VA May 1, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — Harris Corp. will provide weather program support for the Federal Aviation Administration under an eight-year contract worth $238 million, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday. The single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract aims to reduce delays and decongest the national airspace system through the establishment of the Common...
Iridium Revenue Posts Double-Digit Growth; Matt Desch Sees M2M, New Product Gains for 2015
TYSONS CORNER, VA May 1, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — Iridium Communications posted a 13 percent jump in first quarter revenues for its government services unit, GovCon Wire reported Thursday. Company financial results indicated that activity attributed to the increase from year-ago figures included Iridium’s $400 million defense contract for airtime services toward combat support. "When thinking...
Lockheed to Provide C-130 Training Systems to USAF for $80M
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 30, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — Lockheed Martin has landed aircrew and weapons training contracts worth $80 million in total from the U.S. Air Force, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The order includes the deployment of an air mobility command weapon systems trainer and loadmaster part task trainer for the C-130J Hercules transports at the Yokota Air Base in Japan; spares,...
Kamal Narang: SRA to Refresh VA Online Career Development Portal
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 29, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — SRA International has won a task order to refresh the Department of Veterans Affairs Learning University’s online career development program, MyCareer@VA, under the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology vehicle. Kamal Narang, vice president of SRA Health, said Tuesday the work will include content updates, skills training, information...
Dan Allen: Serco Continues 'Price Fighters' Support Under New Navy Contract
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 29, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — Serco has been awarded a potential $20-million contract to provide engineering-based cost price analyses for the U.S. Navy for a period of up to four and a half years, GovCon Wire reported Friday. The work comes under the armed forces’ Price Fighters service intended to assist contracting officers in price negotiation strategies for spare...
Ken Asbury: CACI Wins Operational Analysis Support Work from JIEDDO
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 24, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — CACI International will provide operational analysis support to Defense Department initiatives against improvised explosive devices under a three-year contract worth $34 million, GovCon Wire reported Thursday. Ken Asbury, CACI president and CEO, said Thursday the award affirms the company’s commitment to provide integrated security tools that...
General Dynamics Wins $96M Navy LCS Sustainment Services Contract
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 23, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — General Dynamics NASSCO has been awarded work to provide sustainment, facility maintenance, and fly-away and engineering support services to U.S. Navy littoral combat ships docked at the port of San Diego in California, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday. The $24.2 million contract has a one year base period of performance with options to extend,...
Robert Gough Named Northrop VP for Combat Avionics Systems
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 22, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — GovCon Wire reported Tuesday on Robert Gough’s appointment as vice president for combat avionics systems at Northrop Grumman’s electronic systems sector. Gough comes into the new role from his post as operations director in the information systems communications division. He joined Northrop in 1986 after graduating from Dartmouth College,...
Thomas Kennedy: Raytheon Seeks to Meet Evolving Cyber Threat with New JV
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 21, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — Raytheon and Vista Equity Partners will form a joint venture that will offer cybersecurity technology products designed to handle evolving threats, GovCon Wire reported Monday. The deal involves Raytheon investments into Vista’s Websense portfolio worth $1.9 million for majority ownership of the new company, Raytheon said Monday. “The market...
EMC Gains New Security Partner in CloudLink Buy; Chad Sakac Comments
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 21, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — EMC has acquired Canadian hybrid cloud encryption company CloudLink for an undisclosed sum, GovCon Wire reported Monday. EMC’s Chad Sakac indicated that the acquisition will become an “integral” component of EMC’s Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud integrated package of services, software and hardware, according to CRN’s report Friday....
Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility to Provide Technical Support to USAID Feed the Future Program in Senegal
TYSONS CORNER, VA April 20, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — GovCon Wire reported Friday that Engility Holdings has been awarded a $24 million contract to provide the U.S. Agency for International Development with technical assistance in its initiative to build agricultural production in Senegal. Tony Smeraglinolo, Engility CEO and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2015, said Thursday the...