Mitre has secured a $474 million option contract to continue operating the U.S. Air Force-funded National Security Engineering Center, which conducts research work in cybersecurity and other technical areas. The nonprofit will continue to manage the NSEC federally funded research and development center through Sept. 30, 2022, and will initially rece...
SAP Concur has received a sole-source contract worth potentially $374.35 million from the Defense Human Resources Activity to produce and deploy a travel-as-a-service platform for the Department of Defense. The company will build the web-based MyTravel system with a subscription pricing model for DOD personnel to book trips and manage travel-relate...
Patrick Shanahan, former deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and senior vice president at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has joined the board of directors of Zanite Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ZNTEU) as an independent Class III director. The special purpose acquisition company said Wednesday Shanahan, a previous Wash100 awardee, will become a member of...
Titania has introduced a new tool designed to help companies automate the assessment of their network security practices in compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The new module is part of the company’s Nipper software that looks for vulnerabilities in firewalls, routers and switches and o...
The Department of Defense has unveiled a program that seeks to provide government funding to startups working on hardware technologies that could have national security and commercial applications, DOD News reported Monday. The National Security Innovation Capital program looks for tech startups across the U.S. to help them further develop and comme...
Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) will operate and maintain dark fiber infrastructure for the Defense Department under a potential seven-year, $196.5 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency. An initial task order under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the $1,000 minimum guarantee, DOD s...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected three joint ventures and one independent company to offer architectural and engineering task orders under a three-year, $110 million contract. AECOM Technical Services, HDR GEI JV, Kleinfelder-Stantec USACE A JV and Tetra Tech-Black & Veatch JV are the awardees on the firm-fixed-price contract, the D...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said DOD’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 will offer details on how the U.S. military will spend on efforts to mitigate climate change, Defense News reported Thursday. “We are definitely looking at that both in our strategy development efforts...
Intelligent Artifacts has hired Mike Edwards, a former Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) executive, to serve as chief growth officer and drive the startup’s business growth initiatives. Edwards will bring over three decades of experience in defense and government contracting to his new post and will now focus on ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $172.7 million contract to operate and sustain airborne sensor equipment for the Missile Defense Agency. The company will continue to help MDA maintain systems, plan missions, conduct flight tests and modernize technologies of the agency’s High Altitude Observatory platform, ...
