The U.S. Navy has awarded Amentum a $461.8 million contract to run the Bahamas-based Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, which provides a testing environment for military maritime warfare research. Six proposals were submitted to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division for the AUTEC operation and maintenance contract, the Depart...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has urged Congress to fully fund the government for fiscal year 2022 because he believes a long-term continuing resolution will have a significant impact on key programs at the Department of Defense. Austin, a 2021 Wash100 awardee, made the statement Monday after President Biden approved stopgap measure to maintain age...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has won a potential 10-year, $46.9 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and provide mission partners access to the Department of Defense Information Network through ethernet connectivity. DISA received four offers for the single-award Commercial Ethernet Gateway...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a $273.4 million contract modification to expand its support services for a new U.S. Navy radar system being produced to help the military service detect adversarial aircraft and missile threats. The company will provide laboratory generator support for the Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar and ...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business will continue to maintain military fighter aircraft engines for domestic and foreign military sales customers under a $447.6 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The Department of Defense said Tuesday that contract work involves recurring sustainment effor...
President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
Leaders from the Defense Information Systems Agency and the departments of the Navy and the Air Force are scheduled to discuss the military’s current technology acquisition environment at a Dec. 7 panel discussion hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire). Douglas Packard, director of DISA’s procur...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $124.9 million contract modification to produce 42 more Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles for the U.S. Air Force and Navy. The funds cover lot six production of LRASMs along with two dozen weapons datalinks, the Department of Defense said Monday. DOD pegged the contract’s cumulative face value at $549.7...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a $99 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop capabilities for multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling in support of the service branch’s munition research. The Weapon Engagement Simulation Technology for Advanced Research award is a five-year, indefinite-d...
BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Trac...
