QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm has agreed to buy Avantus Federal from NewSpring Holdings for approximately $590 million to expand its U.S. footprint and establish a growth platform to address the defense and intelligence challenges facing government clients. QinetiQ US said Friday it expects the acquisition to close by the end of calendar year 2022, pen...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking information on microelectronics manufacturing-related capabilities and processes to help it plan for a domestic research, development and production center for 3D heterogeneous integration microsystems. In a presolicitation notice posted Friday on SAM.gov, DARPA said the broad agency announcem...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has received two contract modifications to provide detail design and construction support for the U.S. Navy’s fleet replenishment oilers and mobile landing platform. The first award is valued at $890 million and covers the service’s T-AO 211 and 212 oilers and the second contract modification is w...
Exiger was tapped by the General Services Administration to provide federal government agencies with risk management services to help them flag supply chain vulnerabilities and address threats to the supplier ecosystem. Under a multiyear, $74.5 million contract, Exiger will offer its third-party and supply chain risk management capability to help us...
HII (NYSE: HII) will research, develop, test and evaluate emerging technologies for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency under a potential five-year, $127 million task order awarded under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center multiple-award contract. The company said Wednesday it will develop hardware and software capabilities, co...
Lumen Technologies’ (NYSE: LUMN) government arm has won a potential 10-year, $1.5 billion contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide end-to-end transmission capabilities and related services for the Defense Information System Network Indo-Pacific. DISN Indo-Pacific serves as the Defense of Defense’s consolidated telecommunic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2022 — Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of defense and intelligence systems division at Hughes Network Systems, has underscored the possibility of applying a 5G standard to non-terrestrial networks amid the Department of Defense’s continued support to 5G testing and experimentation initiatives, Execut...
Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) has received a potential $1.74 billion contract to initially produce and deliver 66 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine booster candidate to the U.S. government. The contract calls for the delivery of the initial doses in 2022 and includes options for the government to buy 234 million more doses of Moderna’s mRNA-1273.222...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Michael Conlin, chief technology officer of Definitive Logic, was appointed chair of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform Task Force, a team formed by the American Society of Military Comptrollers to promote the Department of Defense’s PPBE reform awareness, ExecutiveBiz reported. Conlin...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a five-year, $213.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help modernize an F-35 data center located at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The company will perform engineering, maintenance, logistics and material support work for the modernization of the Australia Canada United Kingdom Reprogramming Laboratory...
