The year 2022 in government contracting featured new multibillion-dollar contract awards, major recompetes and some protests over agency procurement decisions. Before we shift into 2023, our editorial team is thrilled to share the most significant federal contracts of the past 12 months from Executive Mosaic’s media portfolio.
Continue reading below for our rundown of this year’s top 22 contract announcements in the GovCon sector.
AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle to Share in Pentagon’s $9B Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability Contract
After 17 months of evaluation, the Department of Defense chose four companies for its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability procurement vehicle with a $9 billion ceiling over five and a half years, which replaces the canceled single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract. Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle will compete for task orders to provide authorized commercial cloud services to the military at the unclassified, secret and top secret levels under JWCC.
Leidos Wins $11.5B DISA Contract for Defense IT Network Consolidation
The Government Accountability Office denied a bid protest on the Defense Information Systems Agency’s decision in February to award Leidos the 10-year, $11.5 billion Defense Enclave Services contract. The Reston, Virginia-based company will help DISA consolidate information technology systems across “Fourth Estate” defense agencies and field activities.
Army Selects L3Harris, Thales for $6.1B Single Channel Radio Modernization Contract
L3Harris Technologies and Thales won positions on the 10-year, $6.11 billion U.S. Army contract to update a family of single-channel military radios used to transmit voice and digital data communications. The Army seeks to align its Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System with cryptographic modernization requirements set forth by the National Security Agency.
BAE Lands $12B Air Force ICBM Support Recompete Contract
The U.S. Air Force awarded BAE Systems a $12 billion follow-on contract in June to sustain a fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles through 2040. BAE will continue to serve as the lead systems integrator of the Minuteman III and Sentinel ICBMs.
MDA Awards Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System Support Contracts
Northrop Grumman landed a $3.29 billion contract to build the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense weapon system in late July. The following month, Boeing was awarded $5.02 billion to lead system integration, test and readiness efforts under the GMD program. A separate competition for the interceptor element of the GMD service life extension program is being pursued by a Northrop-Raytheon Technologies team and a Lockheed Martin–Aerojet Rocketdyne partnership.
DHA Hands Down $10B Military Medical R&D Services Contract
Fifty-six companies won spots on the Defense Health Agency’s Omnibus IV contract vehicle in May. The program has a $10 billion ceiling over 10 years and encompasses task orders across research and development, regulatory processes, translational science and R&D support services.
Collins Aerospace, Axiom Space Win Spots on $3.5B NASA Spacesuit Development IDIQ
Raytheon’s Collins Aerospace subsidiary and Axiom Space were awarded positions on a 12-year, $3.5 billion contract in June to develop next-generation suits and support systems for U.S. astronauts’ spacewalking and moonwalking activity. The first two task orders under NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services contract were valued at $228.5 million for Axiom and $97.2 million for Collins Aerospace.
Maximus Wins $6.6B Contract to Continue CMS Health Insurance Customer Support
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded Maximus a potential 10-year, $6.6 billion contract to continue its work as the operator of contact centers that serve Medicare beneficiaries and federal health insurance consumers.
FAA Picks 11 for $2.3B System Engineering & Technical Innovative Solutions IDIQ
Eleven companies won spots on the Federal Aviation Administration’s $2.27 billion System Engineering and Technical Innovative Solutions contract in June. The SETIS vehicle includes service analysis, research, strategic planning, financial, programmatic and aviation-related support services.
Air Force Awards 5 Spots on $4.8B Contract for Intell Production Support Services
The Air Force selected five companies to compete for task orders under a potential 11-year, $4.8 billion contract for capability support services to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. Altamira Technologies, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Modern Technology Solutions Inc., Radiance Technologies and Xandar were chosen among 10 offerors.
Space Development Agency Names Industry Partners for Tranche 1 Transport, Tracking Layers
Lockheed, Northrop and York Space Systems received prototype agreements worth $1.8 billion combined in February to produce 126 satellites for the National Defense Space Architecture’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer. SDA then in July invested $1.3 billion in two separate prototype agreements with L3Harris and Northrop for the procurement of 28 T1 Tracking Layer satellites.
CACI, Peraton Win $2.2B Contract Each to Help DSCA Conduct Background Investigations
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency awarded CACI and Peraton an approximately $2.25 billion contract each in December to carry out background investigation fieldwork for the federal government. DCSA received four offers for these parallel contracts and obligated $50 million for the two companies’ initial task orders.
Maxar Secures NRO Satellite Imagery Contract Worth Potentially $3.2B
Maxar Technologies booked a potential $3.24 billion National Reconnaissance Office contract in May to provide commercial satellite imagery in support of U.S. defense and intelligence community missions. In an August SEC filing, Maxar reported the award has a five-year base value of $1.5 billion, plus options worth up to $1.74 billion, and is meant to address imagery acquisition requirements for the NGA’s Electro-Optical Commercial Layer Program.
VA Selects 17 Contractors for $650M Health Care Tech Development Program
Seventeen companies landed spots on a $650 million contract in September to provide subject matter expertise to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Accelerating VA Innovation and Learning program. Task orders under the five-year, AVAIL indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract are divided into personalized care, data transformation, digital care, immersive technology and care and service delivery model categories.
Bechtel-Led Entity Wins $3B Contract to Operate DOE’s Waste Isolation Facility
Tularosa Basin Range Services, a Bechtel company, won a potential $3 billion DOE contract to manage and operate the country’s only deep underground only nuclear waste repository. Los Alamos Technical Associates will serve as the small business teaming subcontractor to TBRS on the 10-year Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Management and Operating contract.
Lumen Wins $1.5B DISA Contract to Support Indo-Pacific Defense Telecom Infrastructure
DISA awarded Lumen Technologies a $1.5 billion contract to perform enterprise-level telecommunications support for the Defense Information System Network Indo-Pacific. The Monroe, Louisiana-headquartered company will provide end-to-end transmission platforms and services over a 10-year performance period.
Verizon Lands $1.6B EIS Award for US Embassy IT Network Modernization
Verizon booked a 10-year, $1.58 billion task order in October to update technology and network infrastructure that supports U.S. embassies across the globe. The State Department made the award through the governmentwide Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
Bell Wins $1.3B Army Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft Development Contract
The Army named Bell as the winner of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition Dec. 5. Under a $1.3 billion contract, the Textron subsidiary proposed its V-280 Valor tiltrotor design for the FLRAA platform, which will replace a portion of the branch’s UH-60 Black Hawk fleet.
Navy Awards General Dynamics Subsidiary $5.1B for Follow-On Columbia-Class Submarine Procurement
General Dynamics Electric Boat received a $5.13 billion award from the U.S. Navy to start procuring long lead-time materials needed to build the next five ballistic missile submarines in the Columbia class. The funds will also support Submarine Industrial Base development and expansion initiatives.
BlueHalo Lands $1.4B Space Force Contract for Satellite Tech Development
The U.S. Space Force Office awarded BlueHalo a $1.4 billion other transaction agreement in May to provide full lifecycle development services to USSF’s Satellite Communications Augmentation Resource program.
8 Companies Win Spots on $400M NNSA TEPS III BPA
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration picked eight contractors for its $400 million Technical, Engineering and Programmatic Services blanket purchase agreement.
GSA Unveils Final Cohort of Awardees on $50B 8(a) STARS III GWAC
Sixty-one businesses make up the third and final batch of awardees on the General Services Administration’s 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III vehicle, bringing the total number of industry participants in the small business set-aside IT acquisition vehicle to 1,108.
