The Department of Homeland Security plans to issue in April a draft solicitation for the potential five-year, $288M Cellular Wireless Managed Services recompete contract, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.

The Trump administration has announced that the nation’s government will waive federal contracting laws to speed construction of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, the administration announced in Feb. 2020. 

Leidos Secures $7.7B Contract From Naval Information Warfare Systems Command; Gerry Fasano Quoted  The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command awarded Leidos a potential eight-year, $7.7 billion contract to modernize and maintain shore-based networks being used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps across the globe, Leidos announced on Feb. 12th.  …

Dynetics -- now officially part of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) -- has secured a potential five-year, $93M contract to help the U.S. Air Force update a range of equipment and systems used to simulate weapons. The company will modernize Guided Weapons Evaluation Facility systems, provide vehicle hardware for Air Force Research Laboratory's loop simulators and develop a combat identification multiplatform for joint use, the Department of Defense said Friday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 23, 2020 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) received approval from the International Mobile Satellite Organization to be a satellite service provider for the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 14.

A joint venture between Akima's Lockwood Hills subsidiary and DTSV has landed a potential five-year, $388M contract to help the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs process and adjucate visa applications.

United Launch Alliance has received a task order under the NASA Launch Services II contract to send a weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration into space.

Kent Lietzau, former vice president of strategy and business development at United Launch Alliance, has joined SEAKR Engineering as head of business development. He will oversee growth efforts across the space electronics manufacturing company's government, civil and commercial businesses, SEAKR said Friday.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award up to $750M in total funds for research and development of aircraft integration and virtual modeling systems.

United Launch Alliance has received a $98.5M contract to complete three Atlas V rocket launches for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. The company will continue and complete Atlas V launch activities that began under a previous contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.