Lockheed Martin has become the first defense contractor accredited as a commercial service provider under the Department of Homeland Security's enhanced cybersecurity services program.
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Marjorie Censer was Inside Defense's editor until July 2021. 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.
Lockheed Martin has become the first defense contractor accredited as a commercial service provider under the Department of Homeland Security's enhanced cybersecurity services program.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has appointed Cheri Tyner, formerly deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's office of acquisition management, director of the acquisition directorate within Washington Headquarters Service, the Pentagon announced today.
Seeking to continue advancing its technology -- even as Pentagon spending shrinks -- defense contractor TCOM, which manufactures aerostat systems, has opened a center of excellence.
Salient Federal Solutions was seeking a change. The contractor, founded in 2009, was growing only modestly, according to its chief executive.
Textron Systems' chief executive is urging defense contractors to more proactively adapt to tougher budget times, but says the industry also needs support from the Pentagon.
Booz Allen Hamilton said today it has formed a strategic alliance with Raytheon and Websense, the cybersecurity firm Raytheon acquired earlier this year.
Defense and federal services businesses worth billions of dollars are considered up for potential sale but -- so far -- potential buyers are playing coy.
Five years to the day before Gen. Ray Odierno delivered his last press briefing on Aug. 12, Inside the Pentagon was reporting on major organizational changes at the Pentagon that would eliminate his new gig.
CACI International's sales in its most recent quarter fell about 4 percent to hit $865.5 million, the company announced today.
Following the award of a massive Pentagon electronic health records program to Leidos, no protests have been filed, allowing the contractor to move forward with the initiative.
Computer Sciences Corp. is making "good progress" on the separation effort expected to create two public companies, one focused on the U.S. public sector and the other on commercial and international government customers.
Salient Federal Solutions and CRGT said Tuesday they have agreed to merge to create a $375 million IT services contractor.
Four industry groups have banded together to call on the White House to stop issuing presidential directives focused on government contractors, arguing that the dozen released during President Obama's time in office have significantly increased the costs of doing business with the government.
Following a Government Accountability Office report that found federal agencies are paying insufficient attention to prices when using Federal Supply Schedules, the Pentagon said it is issuing new guidance and assessing its training programs.
(This regular feature highlights protests decided by the Government Accountability Office.)
Agency: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division
Awardee: Ausley Associates
Protester: CenterScope Technologies
Agency: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Protester: PTSI Managed Services
From this week's edition of Inside the Air Force:
Following its acquisition of Exelis, Harris plans to close Exelis' Fort Wayne, IN, tactical radio manufacturing facility and consolidate the work into its existing facility in Rochester, NY.
Northrop Grumman said Thursday it has realigned its aerospace systems portfolio, appointing Chris Hernandez vice president of a newly formed research, technology and advanced design organization.
Vectrus today reported sales in its most recent quarter hit nearly $310 million, only slightly down from the roughly $313 million in sales the contractor reported in the same three-month period a year earlier.