Amentum, through its legacy company DynCorp, has secured a potential $147.3 million contract to provide global prepositioned material services to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. The company will help store, maintain, reconstitute and outload equipment and perform contingency logistics support work under the USAFE GPMS program, Air Combat Command said...
Vortex Optics has received a potential $2.7 billion follow-on other transaction agreement from the U.S. Army to produce fire controls for next-generation weapons systems. The company will also provide spare parts, repairs, accessories, engineering, contractor support and other services to other Department of Defense components and foreign military s...
The Department of Defense is ramping up its modernization efforts with critical funding boosts and newly created senior executive roles to match the speed of rapid global developments and combat urgent pacing challenges. Defense spending for fiscal year 2022 has increased by five percent from the previous fiscal year’s defense policy measure. In D...
Tyto Athene seeks to expand its digital enterprise transformation and network modernization capabilities in support of defense and national security customers through its recently concluded acquisition of Qbase. Chris Meilhammer, CEO of Tyto Athene, said in a statement published Wednesday Qbase brings over two decades of experience in supporting Dep...
A joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has secured a potential four-year, $1.64 billion contract to provide hardware supply support for Osprey military tiltrotor aircraft being used by the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and the Air Force. Bell Boeing will help the three service branches manage an inventory...
Reid Middleton has won a five-year, $100 million contract to perform architecture and engineering work for projects located within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command‘s Northwest area of operations. NAVFAC received six proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition process, the Departm...
Robert Carey, president of Cloudera’s government solutions business, said agencies seeking to advance their capability to deliver on missions should understand the importance of connecting cloud, data management and artificial intelligence strategies. “By linking all three efforts, the government can leap ahead in terms of efficiency and effecti...
Merck’s life science business has been awarded a three-year, $136.7 million contract to stand up a factory for a critical material needed to manufacture rapid COVID-19 point-of-care tests. MilliporeSigma said Thursday it will use the funds to establish a lateral flow membrane production facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to support domestic pro...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a one-year, $492.7 million contract modification to provide logistics support for F-35 aircraft systems that have been delivered to U.S. military and foreign military sales customers. The award to Lockheed’s aeronautics segment covers work to operate and maintain an automatic logistics information syste...
A $770 billion defense policy bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday requires the Department of Defense to come up with a digital health strategy for distributed ledgers and other emerging technology, The Block reported Tuesday. The fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act directs the DOD secretary to find ways to incorporat...
