Department of Homeland Security acquisition teams have increased their use of innovative procurement practices despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the department is working to scale up these efforts moving forward, a DHS official said on Tuesday. During fiscal year 2020, 38 DHS procurement ...
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The ongoing pandemic has created stress points for the global supply chain for information and communications technology (ICT), in part because company’s lack of deep insight into their supply chains, according to a new report released last Friday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...
Leidos [LDOS] on Monday posted record sales driven mainly by two acquisitions earlier this year and the company mustered a slight increase in organic growth, overcoming headwinds related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company also said that if some program wins that were protested are ultimately ...
Leidos [LDOS] Chairman and CEO Roger Krone on Monday said that lessons being learned about doing business during the ongoing pandemic are demonstrating areas where the company will be able to cut costs and enhance profits going forward. Krone, like some other defense industry chiefs have been ...
Boeing [BA] on Wednesday reported a third quarter loss primarily due to declines in its commercial aircraft and services businesses stemming from the ongoing pandemic, but the bleeding also seeped into its defense business where operating profits also dropped. The net loss in the quarter was $466 ...
Future nuclear weapons programs will be delayed if the Department of Energy is not able to produce depleted-uranium-niobium alloy ingots in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in the next three years, according to a report the Government Accountability Office published this week. “[A]ny delays beyond that will ...