CACI International said today its board of directors has added Sue Gordon, effective immediately.
Monday, April 6, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
Marjorie Censer is Inside Defense's editor. She previously worked at the Washington Post and its local business publication Capital Business, covering defense industry reshaping, the increased scrutiny of contractors following the Edward Snowden case and the challenges of canceling military programs. From 2007 to 2010, she was managing editor of Inside the Army. She also previously worked as defense editor at POLITICO and as a staff writer at the Carroll County Times and the Princeton Packet. A Fairfax native, she graduated from Princeton University.
CACI International said today its board of directors has added Sue Gordon, effective immediately.
Boeing said Sunday it is extending indefinitely its suspension of production operations at all Puget Sound-area and Moses Lake sites.
The president of General Dynamics Electric Boat said today he learned Friday he tested positive for coronavirus.
Booz Allen Hamilton said today it will devote more than $100 million to support its 27,000 employees and their communities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A memo signed yesterday by a top Defense Department acquisition official says DOD agencies and the services should act to ensure the defense industrial base remains healthy despite the coronavirus outbreak.
General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works said this week it is increasing the number of crews disinfecting and cleaning work areas as about half of its production workforce uses time-off policies.
Raytheon and United Technologies said today they have received all the needed regulatory approvals for their merger of equals and expect to close the deal prior to the opening of trading on Friday.
A survey conducted by the National Defense Industrial Association found that small businesses expect the coronavirus outbreak to disrupt their sales and their ability to carry out contracts.
Science Applications International Corp. has experienced "minimal impact" from coronavirus so far and expects the government services market to remain resilient, the company's chief executive said this week.
Lockheed Martin today said it is planning to advance more than $50 million to its small- and medium-sized business partners in its supply chain "to ensure they have the financial means to continue to operate, sustain jobs and support the economy."
The Justice Department said Thursday that United Technologies and Raytheon must divest Raytheon's military airborne radios business, UTC's military global positioning systems and UTC's large space-based optical systems businesses to move forward with the companies' planned merger.
Raytheon said today its missile systems business has agreed to a $1 billion, five-year deal to buy propulsion systems from Aerojet Rocketdyne for Standard Missile products.
Though a General Dynamics Bath Iron Works employee has tested positive for coronavirus, the business remains open because the president and the Navy have "mandated that we do so," according to a message from the unit's president.
The National Defense Industrial Association announced today it is conducting a survey of small-business contractors to find out the challenges they're facing amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Parsons said today it has named J.R. Riordan senior vice president of business development for its space and geospatial solutions market.
L3Harris Technologies said today it has agreed to sell its EOTech business to American Holoptics, an affiliate of Koucar Management.
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle manufacturer Oshkosh said today that while it is suspending access equipment production in North America next week, its defense segment is still working.
In a new memo, a top Pentagon acquisition official instructs the services and other defense organizations to offer contractors the same telework flexibilities extended to Pentagon servicemembers and civilians.
Boeing's planned two-week suspension of its Puget Sound-area production operations will include P-8 and KC-46A work, a spokesman confirmed today.
General Dynamics in a filing today added the coronavirus outbreak as a potential business risk.