Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected 10 companies to support general construction projects at two U.S. Marine Corps installations in North Carolina under a five-year, $249 million contract. Contractors can compete for task orders to design, build, renovate, modify and repair facilities at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marin...
BAE Systems’ U.S. arm, Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and By Light Professional IT Services have formed a team to compete for an architecture, engineering and integration contract in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Mission Partner Environment modernization program. MPE is an operational framework that delivers command and ...
John “J.R.” Riordan, a business development leader, has joined Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial intelligence provider BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY) as chief revenue officer. He will bring his experience in GEOINT and space markets to BlackSky as he oversees strategic partnerships, sales activities and revenue operations, the company said Mo...
Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) will research how 5G networks could support warfighters on the battlefield under two contracts the Department of Defense awarded through the Information Warfare Research Project. The company said Monday it will examine how 5G connectivity could help improve command and control applications and services and will explore how 5G n...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $1.62 billion contract to repair the guidance kit of the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center is obligating $32.5 million at the time of award from the branch’s fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance funds, the Department of Defense said Fri...
Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force and a previous Wash100 Award winner, took her oath of office as the new chair of the Defense Business Board during a ceremony held Tuesday at the Pentagon. Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, swore in...
President Joe Biden has nominated John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, to serve as full-time CIO at DOD. Sherman has nearly 25 years of innovation and national security experience across DOD and the intelligence community leading modernization efforts in the areas of collaboration, cybersecurity and cloud comp...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems unit has secured a potential $117 million contract to provide systems and related equipment to the U.S. Navy. Naval Sea Systems Command received one offer for the fixed-priced-incentive fee contract through a competitive procurement approach, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The ...
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking proposals for novel platforms that could help improve mission effectiveness of service members and address national security challenges through the Commercial Solutions Opening process. DIU plans to award other transaction agreements to traditional and nontraditional defense contractors to develop prototypes of...
The U.S. Cyber Command is planning to collaborate with different agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cyber Information Security Agency to strengthen cybersecurity initiatives for the upcoming 2022 elections, Signal reported Wednesday. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of the Cybercom who serves concurrently as the director of the Na...
