Marina Theodotou, former Defense Acquisition University official, was named executive director of a Department of Defense organization focused on providing Pentagon leaders with independent advice and specific recommendations to drive innovation, according to her LinkedIn post. Theodotou brings three decades of leadership experience to the Defense I...
The National Science Foundation has started soliciting proposals for the fourth competition of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program and expects to make up to five awards in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The fourth National AI Research Institutes competition is anticipated to reach up to $100 million in total funding and wil...
Noble Supply & Logistics, SupplyCore and ADS subsidiary TWI USA will continue delivering maintenance, repair and operations support to military service branches as part of a potential $100 million contract modification from the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA exercised the second one-year option period that extends the ordering deadline for commer...
A new McAleese & Associates report shows that defense prime contractors posted a 7 percent to 9 percent rise in sales during the second quarter of 2022 and record-high backlogs as the Department of Defense accelerates contract awards. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the...
A subsidiary of BAE Systems‘ U.S. business arm will provide software development and maintenance, technical support and fleet services under a $91.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy. BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services was tapped to deliver system and subsystem support services to the Navy, Marine Corps, Military Sealift Command, ...
Fintech financial services provider Array US and software company Verato were awarded spots on a $330 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency for credit reporting services. Both contractors will compete for delivery orders under the potential 10-year IDIQ to support DCSA’...
Zack Butcher, a founding engineer at Tetrate, said government agencies looking to implement a zero trust architecture to improve their cybersecurity posture should adopt an infrastructure layer called service mesh. He wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com that a service mesh like Istio could enable agencies to intercept network traffic amon...
Amentum will deliver life-cycle support and other follow-on technical services to eligible international naval forces under a potential five-year, $591.6 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Keyport, Washington, received four proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a co...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program management, nonrecurring requirements and training support for the government of Germany under a potential $622.4 million contract with the U.S. Navy. Work on the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will occur in Texas, Florida and South Carolina through December 2027, the Departmen...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) One Source business will continue providing the U.S. Army with geospatial services under a $99 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contractors will vie for each order of the award to determine funding and locations of work, which is expected to run through May 12, 2024, the Department of...
