In recent months, the Department of Defense has placed greater emphasis and importance on artificial intelligence. The technology has been included on the White House’s critical and emerging technologies list, and the department in December created a new position meant to oversee artificial intelligence, digital-focused initiatives and data. Now...
BAE Systems has won a potential $148.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to maintain, repair and modernize USS Essex for the amphibious assault ship’s fiscal 2022 docking selected restricted availability. The firm-fixed-price contract has a base value of $125.5 million, which the military service will obligate immediately, and would re...
Jeffrey Specht, most recently executive director of the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, has joined Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) as senior director for government security. He brings to Oracle 27 years of experience as a civil servant and will oversee the company’s efforts in delivering support and building partnerships with DOD, the U.S. intellig...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $166.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide, install and configure 22 F-35 aircraft training devices. The contractor will deliver interactive courseware, a multispectral database and full-mission simulators to the service branch as part of the contract action, the Department of Defens...
Federal Advisory Partners, a Sagewind Capital portfolio company, has bought Universal Consulting Services for an undisclosed sum to further expand its client base and digital service capabilities in support of customers in the federal market. “As demand for modernization and digital transformation accelerates across the federal sector, the need fo...
Eighteen companies have won indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to provide various types of fuel to the Defense Logistics Agency’s energy organization. The agency received 31 offers during the competitive acquisition process and set a 30-day carryover period for the awards, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Services are sch...
The U.S. Space Force has exercised contract options by selecting General Atomics and Orion Space Solutions to build and launch demonstration satellites as part of the Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System program. Orion Space Solutions will deploy a EO/IR Cubesat prototype in the fall of 2022 for a one-year demonstration, Space Systems Command sai...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a potential 10-year, $11.5 billion contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency consolidate information technology networks of the Department of Defense’s Fourth Estate organizational entities. Under the Defense Enclave Service contract, Leidos will move DOD agencies and field activities to a common netwo...
The Space Development Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and York Space Systems prototype agreements valued at approximately $1.8 billion combined to build and demonstrate 126 satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Transport Layer is exp...
A Fincantieri subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $78.7 million contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships. Fincantieri Marine Systems North America will assign technicians and provide program management support to the service branch’s planned corrective and maintenance efforts for MCM-1 vessels,...
