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Leidos Announces $1M ‘Move the Needle’ Employee Vaccine Promotion; Chairman, CEO Roger Krone Quoted

Leidos announced on Wednesday that the company was launching an internal promotion to promote and encourage employee vaccinations against COVID-19. For the promotion, the company is offering approximately one million...

Serco Awarded $70M U.S. Navy Contract for C5ISR Electronic System Support; Dave Dacquino Quoted

Serco announced on Thursday that the company landed a potential $70 million U.S. Navy contract to provide engineering and technical support for aviation intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) electronic systems....

Maxar Technologies Providing WorldView Legion Satellite Capacity to International Defense, Intelligence Customers; Tony Frazier Quoted

Maxar Technologies announced on Thursday that the company secured a multi-year $35 million contract for WorldView Legion satellite constellation capacity through an expanded agreement with a key international defense and...

BigBear.ai to Work on AFRL’s Composable Collaborative Planning Prototype; GovCon Expert Reggie Brothers Quoted

BigBear.ai has received a Notice of Intent to Award the company a two-year contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a composable collaborative planning prototype. The Project AURORA will...

CEO Stu Shea Implementing Perspecta, Northrop’s IT Business to Build Peraton into National Security Powerhouse

Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO of Peraton, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most esteemed and respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO...

Executive Spotlight With Rick Wagner, President of Microsoft Federal Explores IT Solutions, Data Processing, Cloud Delivery Models

ExecutiveBiz released its latest Executive Spotlight on Wednesday with Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and four-time Wash100 Award recipient. During the interview, Wagner shed some light on his team’s...

Executive Spotlight: Rick Wagner, President of Microsoft Federal

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for its latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss his team driving new solutions for federal...

Peraton CEO Stu Shea Presented Fifth Wash100 Award By Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the fifth overall Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and sought-after award in all of government contracting (GovCon), to Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO...

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Passes Away

Donald Rumsfeld, a two-time defense secretary, passed away Wednesday at the age of 88, DOD News reported. Rumsfeld served as secretary of the Department of Defense (DOD) in the administrations...

Gen. Paul Nakasone: Navy-Marine Corps Integration Needed to Counter Cyberattacks

Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of U.S. Cyber Command and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said cybersecurity is national security and the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps must be...

Anne Neuberger: Microsoft Exchange Hack Attribution, Follow-Up Action Coming Soon

Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, hinted that the White House will release a formal attribution for the hack...

Leidos Chairman, CEO Roger Krone Presented Eighth Consecutive Wash100 Award By Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the eighth consecutive Wash100 Award to Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, during a recent visit on Monday to Leidos’ office in Reston,...

KBR Wins $194M Air Force Task Order to Test Microelectronic Tech Integrity; Byron Bright Quoted

KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a five-year, $194.3 million task order to help U.S. Air Force researchers analyze and verify the integrity of very small electronic devices. The company said...

Iridium Awarded $30 Million Research & Development Contract From U.S. Army; CEO Matt Desch Quoted

Iridium Communications announced on Thursday that the company has secured a research and development (R&D) contract from the U.S. Army worth up to $30 million to develop a payload to...

Leidos Secures Over $5B in Contract Award Wins in June

Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, received his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on Monday....