The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected three joint ventures and one independent company to offer architectural and engineering task orders under a three-year, $110 million contract. AECOM Technical Services, HDR GEI JV, Kleinfelder-Stantec USACE A JV and Tetra Tech-Black & Veatch JV are the awardees on the firm-fixed-price contract, the D...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said DOD’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 will offer details on how the U.S. military will spend on efforts to mitigate climate change, Defense News reported Thursday. “We are definitely looking at that both in our strategy development efforts...
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking commercially made lightweight technologies that could provide nuclear power and propulsion for small to medium military spacecraft sensing and communication systems. DIU said the Department of Defense will need more electrical power for smaller spacecraft as future missions will expand on new capabilities such ...
Traditional and nontraditional contractors play an essential role in the Department of Defense’s experimentation program aimed at testing dual-use applications of fifth generation wireless communications technology at military installations. Joseph Evans, who recently stepped down as principal director for 5G at the Office of the Under Secreta...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $172.7 million contract to operate and sustain airborne sensor equipment for the Missile Defense Agency. The company will continue to help MDA maintain systems, plan missions, conduct flight tests and modernize technologies of the agency’s High Altitude Observatory platform, ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report outlining the components of a potential $740 billion annual defense policy bill approved by the House Armed Services Committee. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that the full House panel voted 57-2 Thursday, Sept. 2, to pass the ...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, has approved 16 advisory boards to resume operations after considering some recommendations of a zero-based review of all advisory committees within DOD, Defense News reported Friday. In February, Austin ordered the immediate suspension of all 42 advisory boards to...
Trace Systems has won a potential five-year, $600 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to procure, integrate, install, operate and maintain communications systems for U.S. Air Forces Central Command. The Vienna, Virginia-based company will perform work throughout USAFCENT’s area of operations within Southwest Asia, the ...
Five companies have landed spots on a $249 million multiple-award contract to support construction projects at the U.S. Navy’s support facility in the British Indian Ocean Territory atoll known as Diego Garcia. Contractors will compete for task orders to renovate offices, replace or repair built-in equipment, work on electrical and mechanical ...
A Noblis subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $187.46 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide research, program management, systems engineering and end-to-end system design support for the service’s command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. Noblis MSD will also provide integratio...
