Science Applications International Corp. said profit in its most recent quarter reached $33 million, the same figure the company reported in the same three-month period the prior year.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
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.
Science Applications International Corp. said profit in its most recent quarter reached $33 million, the same figure the company reported in the same three-month period the prior year.
Defense executives have been loathe to publicly criticize the Pentagon's efforts to woo Silicon Valley start-ups, but one chief executive on Friday made no secret of his disdain.
The Professional Services Council and Grant Thornton today released their annual acquisition policy survey.
The Aerospace Industries Association said today it participated in a meeting with the Trump campaign "to brief Mr. [Donald] Trump on issues of importance to our industry."
Vectrus is focusing on winning major recompetitions, including one program that makes up 30 percent of its total revenue, the company's chief financial officer said today.
United Technologies said this week that retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, former commander of U.S. Central Command, has been elected to its board of directors, effective Sept. 1.
Leanne Caret, chief executive of Boeing's defense business, today credited the development organization Boeing established last year with improving the company's work on the KC-46 tanker program.
The number of sole-source contracts worth more than $20 million the Pentagon has awarded to small business through the 8(a) program has been declining since 2011, the Government Accountability Office reported in a study released today.
The services portion of Huntington Ingalls' work "will be bigger and it will be more relevant," Mike Petters, the company's chief executive, said during a Deutsche Bank conference this morning.
A congressionally mandated panel on technical data rights held its first meeting Tuesday, laying the groundwork for a report on the matter due to the defense secretary by Sept. 30.
Bloomberg Government this morning released its list of the top 200 contractors, topped this year by Lockheed Martin with $36.6 billion in fiscal year 2015 obligations.
Focused on innovation, Booz Allen Hamilton has pursued a closer relationship with technology companies and a more agile approach, the company's chief executive told Inside Defense this month.
The Council of Defense and Space Industry Associations has sent a letter to Claire Grady, director of defense procurement and acquisition policy, asking that the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council suspend the rulemaking process for technical data rights issues until a congressionally mandated government-industry advisory panel submits a report to Capitol Hill.
L-3 Communications said today it has named Heidi Wood to the newly created position of vice president and chief analytics officer.
General Dynamics is ramping up its work on the Ohio-class replacement program, a Navy initiative so large that the contractor's chief executive joked Friday that it “kind of blocks the sun for us.”
After a “wave” of spending on share repurchases, Northrop Grumman is now looking toward greater internal investments, the contractor's chief executive said Friday.
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said today it has hired Peter Haynes, formerly deputy director of strategy plans and policy (J-5) for strategy and concepts at U.S. Special Operations Command.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program provides about 25 percent of Lockheed Martin's sales today and is the company's "biggest growth engine," chief executive Marillyn Hewson said Wednesday in New York.
Retired Army Gen. John Campbell has been appointed to the board of directors for the U.S. unit of BAE Systems.
The Pentagon is proposing a new records system focused on insider threat management and analysis.