The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a request for proposals for a potential 10-year, $4 billion contract to research, develop, test and evaluate scientific and technological platforms meant to help the Department of Defense counter and deter weapons of mass destruction. The Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program is a multiple-award...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will maintain surface ship undersea warfare systems for the U.S. Navy and the governments of Australia and Japan under a contract worth potentially $291.9 million. The company will install AN/SQQ-89 combat system shipset hardware and perform logistics support work under the contract with an initial value of $24 million, the Depar...
Over the course of the last two and a half years, the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, known as CMMC, has undergone multiple changes, organizational shifts, revisions and updates. Now, DOD officials are expecting to include CMMC requirements in federal contracts as soon as May 2023 — but there is s...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will provide software development, engineering and data science support for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center under a potential five-year, $241 million basic ordering agreement. Maxar said Wednesday it secured a spot on the BOA, which also covers architecture, standards and analysis se...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a two-year, $632.1 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command to create software builds and conduct developmental flight tests for the F-35 program. The company’s aeronautics segment will provide logistics, maintenance, engineering and material services to U.S. and international military customers,...
DC Capital Partners Management has made an investment in Valkyrie Enterprises and will combine the latter with the private equity firm’s portfolio company Hill Technical Solutions. Valkyrie has over 700 engineers, industry specialists and technical professionals who provide support to diplomatic and security missions at the Department of Defen...
Shay Assad, a more than four-decade defense business veteran, has joined George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting as a non-resident senior fellow, GMU said in a monthly update. He previously served as director of pricing at the Department of Defense from June 2011 to December 2018 and advised DOD on weapons and automated inf...
In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Lance Spencer, client executive vice president of defense for AT&T, to talk about his experience with the company as well as with the cybersecurity space and the intelligence community. He also discussed AT&T’s 5G-focused initiatives and its application to Department of...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 13 small businesses spots on a potential 10-year, $990 million multiple award contract for military facility construction services. The awardees will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and perform work at Joint Base San Antonio, Laughlin Air Force Base and Goodfellow AFB ...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $397.7 million contract modification to obtain initial spares for lot 16 F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The award is for deliveries of global spares pool and afloat and deployment spares packages to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, non-Department of Defense agencies and foreign...
