GovConWire's Government Contracting News 8/18/2022

Contract Awards

GSA Brings Ceiling Value of Alliant 2 IT Contract Vehicle to $75B; Sonny Hashmi Quoted

The General Services Administration has raised the ceiling value of the $50 billion Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract by an additional $25 billion to broaden opportunities for federal agency customers to access information technology platforms and services. GSA said Wednesday the move brings the ceiling amount of the Alliant 2 GWAC to $75 billion. “Alliant

News

DRT Strategies CEO James Gordon Presented 1st Wash100 Award By Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

James Gordon, CEO of DRT Strategies, was presented his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office in Arlington, VA. Executive Mosaic is thrilled to recognize Gordon as a first-time recipient of the Wash100 Award for his work helping steward the health

Contract Awards

Rolls-Royce Receives $1B Navy Aircraft Engine Maintenance Contract

Rolls-Royce has secured a $1.01 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain the engines that power T-45 Goshawk military training jets. The company will perform maintenance and logistics support work on 210 F405-RR-401 Adour engines under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Work will occur in Mississippi, Texas, Florida and Maryland

Executive Moves

Michelle Howell Named SPA Chief HR Officer

Michelle Howell, a two-decade human resources professional in the defense industry, has been named chief HR officer at Alexandria, Virginia-based government contractor Systems Planning and Analysis. She will be responsible for overseeing SPA’s talent attraction, retention and development functions across three continents, the company said Wednesday. Howell most recently served as executive vice president and

News

FirstNet-AT&T Partnership to Receive $190M FY 2023 Budget for Public Safety Network Enhancements

The First Responder Network Authority Board has earmarked $190 million for the government’s 2023 fiscal year to update the nationwide wireless emergency communications network that contractor AT&T (NYSE: T) helped build. FirstNet said Wednesday the allocated funds for network modernization are part of a $358 million annual spending package that received unanimous board approval. The

M&A Activity

AeroVironment Buys Unmanned Aircraft Navigation Tech Developer Planck; Wahid Nawabi Quoted

AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) has purchased Planck Aerosystems for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to drive the development of autonomy capabilities for its unmanned aircraft platforms. San Diego-based Planck is a small technology firm founded in 2014 and has worked with clients from the Department of Defense, allied governments and security agencies to build

Cybersecurity

IronNet, CISA Enter Threat Info Sharing Agreement; Keith Alexander Quoted

IronNet (NYSE: IRNT) has signed an agreement to provide the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency access to information from a company-built threat detection and data exchange platform. The Collective Defense technology works to identify anomalous events and disseminate security alerts intended to help partner organizations protect infrastructure against cyber actors, the company said. Keith Alexander,

Contract Awards

IT Company 2 Twelve to Build Multi-Cloud Enterprise Platform for Navy Under $93.5M Contract

Information technology provider 2 Twelve Solutions has received a $93.5 million other transaction agreement to develop and implement a cloud-native platform for the U.S. Navy‘s enterprise network modernization project. The OTA award comes follows a prototyping effort that sought to demonstrate the use of 2 Twelve’s commercial technology to support digital processes at the service

Cybersecurity

DOE Launches Funding Opportunity for Grid Cybersecurity R&D Projects

The Department of Energy will support research, development and demonstration efforts aimed at strengthening the security and resiliency of U.S. power grid against cyber threats and will select up to 15 cybersecurity projects for the new funding opportunity. DOE said Wednesday that potential topic areas are automated cyber attack prevention and mitigation; cybersecurity-by-design approach to

News

Q&A With Carahsoft Sales Director Michael Adams on Increasing AI Use Cases, Vendors

Michael Adams, director of sales at Carahsoft, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. The Q&A focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning, the growing use cases that led to more vendors joining the AI space as well as how Carahsoft’s practice has grown over the years. Here’s an excerpt from the

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 8/18/2022

GSA Brings Ceiling Value of Alliant 2 IT Contract Vehicle to $75B; Sonny Hashmi Quoted

DRT Strategies CEO James Gordon Presented 1st Wash100 Award By Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Rolls-Royce Receives $1B Navy Aircraft Engine Maintenance Contract

Michelle Howell Named SPA Chief HR Officer

FirstNet-AT&T Partnership to Receive $190M FY 2023 Budget for Public Safety Network Enhancements

AeroVironment Buys Unmanned Aircraft Navigation Tech Developer Planck; Wahid Nawabi Quoted

IronNet, CISA Enter Threat Info Sharing Agreement; Keith Alexander Quoted

IT Company 2 Twelve to Build Multi-Cloud Enterprise Platform for Navy Under $93.5M Contract

DOE Launches Funding Opportunity for Grid Cybersecurity R&D Projects

Q&A With Carahsoft Sales Director Michael Adams on Increasing AI Use Cases, Vendors

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