THIS WEEK'S TOP NEWS STORIES
Leidos CEO Roger Krone , a 10-time winner of the?Wash100 Award , is set to?retire by May ?after nine years in the chief executive role.?Thomas Bell , current CEO of Rolls-Royce's North American subsidiary and president of its global defense business, has been elected by the board of directors of Leidos to succeed Krone, effective May 3.
Boeing ?has secured a potential $1.2 billion contract to develop two variants of the?E-7 airborne early warning and control aircraft ?for the U.S. Air Force. Work on the?E-7A Rapid Prototype program ?under the sole-source, undefinitized contract action will occur in Seattle through August 2024.
Cherokee Federal ?has acquired Criterion Systems in a strategy to expand?cybersecurity and information technology ?modernization work with government customers.?“The strategic decision to acquire Criterion was made with the evolving needs and long-term success of the customer in mind,” said?Steven Bilby , president of Cherokee Federal.?
An information technology executive with international experience,?Guy Nielsen ?has nurtured a life-long passion for technology. For the past 12 years, Nielsen has been serving as a principal and part owner of?V3Gate. At the IT solutions, software, hardware and services provider, he is primarily focused on developing and executing V3Gate’s strategy. Late last month, Nielsen sat down with ExecutiveBiz to chat about V3Gate’s growing services offerings, the prevalence and importance of Everything-as-a-Service and more.
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Germantown, Maryland-based?Amentum ?has chosen Fairfax County as the location of its?new corporate headquarters . “The relocation of our company headquarters to Chantilly, Virginia, grants more convenient access not only for our local employees, customers, and partners, but also for everyone in our extended team who are doing business in the Washington, D.C. area,” Amentum CEO?John Heller , a recipient of the?2023 Wash100 Award .
The General Services Administration has?exercised the option period ?of five years for a governmentwide acquisition contract that federal agencies use to acquire information technology support services from service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.
Altamira Technologies ?has acquired?Virginia Systems & Technology ?in a transaction that expands its capabilities in?signals intelligence ?tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination, emerging threat identification and tactical SIGINT collaborative mission constellation management.
Five companies have secured other transaction agreements to develop prototypes of the U.S. Army's?Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Increment 2 . The OTA awards are part of an industry competition?seeking a new UAS platform for brigade combat teams to perform reconnaissance and surveillance work even in areas where GPS signals are corrupted.
The public sector had the strongest showing in terms of the movers and shakers this past week in the 2023 Wash100 popular vote.?Among others,?Stacey Dixon , principal deputy director of national intelligence, made a steady gain from number 20 to number 16?and?Heidi Shyu , undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, found inroads toward the top 20.
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