THIS WEEK'S TOP 10 NEWS STORIES
Weekly Contract Awards: This week's top GovCon contract awards.
Dana Deasy to Receive Official Presidential Nomination for Pentagon CIO Role: President Trump officially announced in a White House release Tuesday his intent to nominate Dana Deasy to become the chief information officer role with the Department of Defense.
Bechtel Wins $383M Contract to Design, Build NASA’s Second Mobile Launcher: Bechtel has been awarded a 44-month, $383M contract to design, construct, test and commission a second mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
TCOM Wins Potential $979M Army Tethered Aerostat Support Contract: Airborne surveillance systems provider TCOM has won a potential five-year, $978.9M contract to help the U.S. Army engineer, and operate low-altitude aerostats that are intended for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Richard Haley Joins FBI IT Branch as Exec Assistant Director: Richard Haley, chief financial officer at the FBI, has been appointed to serve as the executive assistant director of the agency's information and technology branch.
L3, Harris Target June 29 Closing Date for All-Stock Merger; Christopher Kubasik Quoted: Harris and L3 Technologies set June 29, Saturday, as the closing date for their all-stock merger deal after they secured the regulatory clearances needed to complete the transaction.
Austal USA Delivers Future USS Cincinnati to Navy: The U.S. Navy has received the future USS Cincinnati (LCS 20) from Austal USA, which will be the 10th Independence variant to join the service’s fleet of littoral combat ships.
Navy Picks Five Contractors for Potential $100M Expeditionary Warfare Tech Dev’t OTA: Four companies and one university research organization have won spots on a potential six-year, $100M other transaction agreement to develop expeditionary warfare technology protoypes for the Naval Sea Systems Command.
Federal IT Market Vet Steve Tolbert Named CACI Business Systems EVP: Steve Tolbert, former senior vice president and general manager of Perspecta’s civilian state and local group, has joined CACI International as executive vice president of business systems, G2Exchange ETC reported Thursday.
Accenture Federal Unit Secures Air Force OTA for IT Hosting System Risk Reduction Work: The federal business of Accenture has received a one-year, $65.4M other transaction agreement from the U.S. Air Force to conduct risk reduction efforts for an enterprise information technology-as-a-service platform.