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GovConWire's Government Contracting News 9/13/2021

Vertex to Buy Raytheon’s Defense Training & Mission Critical Solutions Unit; Ed Boyington Quoted
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Vertex to Buy Raytheon’s Defense Training & Mission Critical Solutions Unit; Ed Boyington Quoted

Vertex Aerospace has agreed to acquire Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) defense training and mission critical solutions business for an undisclosed sum to expand its product and service offerings for government, defense and commercial clients. Ed Boyington, president and CEO of Vertex, said in a statement published Friday he looks forward to welcoming over 2,000 employees
Kathleen Hicks: DOD’s FY 2023 Budget Proposal to Outline Climate Change Spending
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Kathleen Hicks: DOD’s FY 2023 Budget Proposal to Outline Climate Change Spending

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,
SpaceX Wins Contract to Launch Final Weather Satellite for Joint NASA-NOAA Program
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SpaceX Wins Contract to Launch Final Weather Satellite for Joint NASA-NOAA Program

SpaceX has secured a potential $152.5 million contract from NASA to launch the fourth and final spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series, the space agency’s collaborative acquisition program with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA said Saturday it expects the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket to send the GOES-U weather satellite into space
B3 Hires Navy Vet Lionel Vigue to Lead Cybersecurity Practice
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B3 Hires Navy Vet Lionel Vigue to Lead Cybersecurity Practice

Lionel “Lee” Vigue, a three-decade U.S. Navy veteran, has joined B3 Group as lead for the information technology consulting firm’s cybersecurity practice. Vigue most recently served as cybersecurity solutions branch chief at the Navy and brings 20 years of government IT experience at the federal and state levels to his new position, B3 Group said
Aerospace Companies Awarded $100M in FAA Emission Reduction Tech Development Contracts
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Aerospace Companies Awarded $100M in FAA Emission Reduction Tech Development Contracts

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded several companies contracts worth more than $100 million combined to build technologies that could help reduce aircraft’s fuel consumption, noise and emissions. FAA said Friday the awards are part of the third phase of the agency’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise program, a public-private partnership that started in
Former GDIT Exec Helen Soln Joins Leidos as Proposal Operations VP
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Former GDIT Exec Helen Soln Joins Leidos as Proposal Operations VP

Helen Soln, former senior director of proposal management at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit, was appointed as vice president of proposal operations at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. She brought to her new role almost a decade of experience in managing proposal departments for a number of government and Department of
Air Force Research Lab Intros R&D Initiative for Autonomous Electromagnetic Warfare Operations
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Air Force Research Lab Intros R&D Initiative for Autonomous Electromagnetic Warfare Operations

The research arm of the U.S. Air Force has released a presolicitation notice for a program aimed at enabling autonomous electromagnetic warfare operations through artificial intelligence or machine learning-powered collection and analysis of on-board data in real time. According to the notice of contract action posted Thursday on SAM.gov, Project Kaiju will study software-defined radio,
Dave Schmidtknecht: cBEYONData Seeks to Grow Federal CFO Community Presence With Bluestone Investment
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Dave Schmidtknecht: cBEYONData Seeks to Grow Federal CFO Community Presence With Bluestone Investment

Bluestone Investment Partners has invested in cBEYONData, a professional services company that primarily offers business process automation, data management and analytics support to government chief financial officers. “With this investment, we have the additional resources necessary to expand our product offerings and deliver on the evolving needs and expectations of the federal government CFO community,”
Lockheed Receives $101M Modification on Army Hellfire Missile Contract
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Lockheed Receives $101M Modification on Army Hellfire Missile Contract

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a three-year, $101.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide Hellfire missile systems to domestic and international defense customers. Army Contracting Command obligated the full amount using defense-wide funds from the U.S. military and foreign military sales funds from Indonesia, Greece, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates,
DOD’s Innovation Arm Interested in Commercial Nuclear Propulsion Tech for Smaller Spacecraft
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DOD’s Innovation Arm Interested in Commercial Nuclear Propulsion Tech for Smaller Spacecraft

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 as methods for de-orbiting, orbital
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