General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has won a potential $121.1 million contract to help the U.S. Navy update, repair and maintain systems of USS Pinckney guided missile destroyer. Naval Sea Systems Command received three offers for the DDG 91 vessel’s fiscal 2022 depot modernization effort through a full and open competition, ...
Oshkosh’s (NYSE: OSK) defense arm has won a potential six-year, $942.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to build and deploy a medium caliber weapon system for the Stryker armored fighting vehicle. Army Contracting Command received three offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract and expects work to conclude on June 2, 2027, t...
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has received a potential $100 million contract from the Defense Health Agency to perform research and engineering work for the Military Health System enterprise. Under the five-year contract, APL will help the agency maintain organizational performance of MHS in the long term and conduct st...
Comcast Government Services, doing business as Comcast Business, has won a potential 10-year, $102.8 million contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency replace legacy circuits and establish connectivity with mission partners via ethernet. The company will use Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 3 to connect external mission partners to t...
President Joe Biden has unveiled a $715 billion budget request for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2022, which reflects a 1.6 percent rise from the FY 2021 enacted amount of approximately $703.7 billion. The proposed defense budget proposal includes $27.7 billion in funds for nuclear modernization efforts, including $3 billion for B-21 Lon...
Five companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $400 million contract vehicle to build and engineer integrated systems for the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Friday contractors will provide support services or equipment to support the branch’s air traffic control functions, meteorology and oceanography programs and aviation...
The departments of Defense and Health and Human Services have coordinated to execute contract actions worth $226.3 million combined to help four companies increase domestic production capacity for COVID-19 antibody tests and nitrile gloves. DOD said Friday its Defense Assisted Acquisition Cell organization led the contracting process while the HHS O...
Michael McCord and Ronald Moultrie received Senate confirmation to serve as comptroller at the Department of Defense and as DOD undersecretary for intelligence and security, respectively, Defense News reported Friday. McCord, a 2015 Wash100 awardee, oversaw financial and budgetary functions at the Pentagon as its comptroller and chief financial offi...
The Department of Defense indicated in court documents filed Friday that it is preparing for more months of litigation over a contract protest filed by Amazon Web Services challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Federal News Network reported. DOD, Microsoft and AWS sa...
Battelle, Clinical Enterprise and PerkinElmer Health Sciences have received contracts worth potentially $650 million combined to help the U.S. government ramp up COVID-19 testing efforts nationwide. The Department of Defense said Wednesday it issued the awards under a partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services to deploy test kits a...
