OneWeb has agreed to buy TrustComm for an undisclosed sum and will establish a new subsidiary that will focus on delivering satellite-based connectivity services to U.S. government agency customers. OneWeb said Monday TrustComm CEO Bob Roe will oversee the new government subsidiary and that it expects the transaction to be completed in 2021, subject...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, issued a memorandum that seeks to ensure U.S. competitive advantage by turning DOD into a data-centric organization, DOD News reported Monday. The May 5 memo with the subject Creating Data Advantage calls for the Pentagon to implement five data decrees,...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has won a potential 10-year, $495 million contract to provide wide area network services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA intends to obligate a $250 million minimum guaranteed award amount through the first task order under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Defense Research Engineering Networ...
The U.S. Air Force has named 33 awardees on a seven-year, $700 million contract vehicle to support minor construction projects at Joint Base Andrews and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Contractors will compete for task orders to build, repair and maintain infrastructure at the two Maryland-based military installations, the Department of Defense said F...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $105.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to build and maintain XM813 Bushmaster chain guns for the U.S. Army’s Stryker infantry carrier vehicle weapons modernization program. The Army is procuring the new configuration of 30×173 mm caliber cannons, a derivative of Northrop’s ...
Anto Tossounian of ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) and Brian Fogg of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business said their companies have partnered to help government agencies deliver digital services as part of efforts to modernize the customer experience. “Through our partnership, we can offer advanced cloud-based managed services for...
Engineering and Software System Solutions, Southwest Research Institute and the University of Dayton Research Institute have secured positions on a 20-year, $300 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the functional and structural performance of aircraft landing gear systems. Contractors will perform work under the service branch’...
Carmen Santos-Logan, former deputy director of cybersecurity architecture and capability oversight at the Department of Defense, has joined Millennium as vice president of business development. Santos-Logan will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based company’s business growth and development, capture and proposal functions, Millennium said Tues...
The Defense Logistics Agency has selected five companies to help delivery medical and surgical supplies to foreign military sales customers under a potential five-year, $516.9 million contract. DLA received eight responses to the FMS Medical and Surgical Tailored Logistics Support program via a competitive solicitation, the Department of Defense sai...
Marlborough, Massachusetts-based medical technology company Hologic will supply COVID-19 diagnostic tools to the U.S. Army under a three-year, $178.5 million contract. The Army’s Health Contracting Activity ordered Panther Fusion and Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assays, multiplex test kits and various related consumable items through the firm-fixed-price...
