Contract Awards

Reston, Virginia-based professional services firm Golden Key Group and its five teaming partners will provide managed human resource services to the Department of Commerce under a potential six-year, $110M contract. GKG partnered with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Lindholm & Associates, OBAN and ManpowerGroup to support the department's HR operations via the Personnel Action Request, Payroll, and Benefits Services contract.

Five companies have won spots on a potential nine-year, $837.6M contract from the U.S. Army to supply personal protective equipment designed to help protect warfighters against ballistic threats. Army Contracting Command received 11 bids for the Soldier Protection System procurement vehicle.

KBR has received a five-year, $49 million task order to assist the U.S. Army's Cargo Helicopter Project Management Office in aircraft system acquisition and reliability improvement efforts. The company said Wednesday it aims to help the Army manage the availability and life cycle of the branch's CH-47 Chinooks.

South Korea's defense acquisition program administration expects to finalize an estimated $878M foreign military sales contract with the U.S. government to procure a dozen MH-60R Seahawk naval helicopters built by Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, Defense News reported Wednesday.

Amazon Web Services called on a judge in a redacted court filing to nullify the Department of Defense’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Nextgov reported Wednesday.

An ASRC Federal subsidiary will help NASA announce research opportunities, collect and review proposals and assist in the selection of applications for awards under the potential five-year, $212M Research and Education Support Services recompete contract. Huntsville, Alabama-based ASRC Federal Agile Decision Sciences will also provide information technology, professional services and other related support through the NRESS-II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will perform work at its facility and NASA headquarters in Washington, 

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has landed a five-year, $70M contract to help NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center integrate sensor technology onto unmanned aircraft. The company will perform engineering, production and technical services under the Global Hawk Skyrange program aimed at demonstrating an alternative approach to collect data with the high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft, the agency said Wednesday.

The U.S. Army has awarded the National Spectrum Consortium a potential $2.5B prototype other transaction agreement to help coordinate research and development projects designed to improve spectrum utilization, advance microelectronics and upgrade communications infrastructure to enable protected and resilient networks.

The State Department has cleared a potential $500M foreign military sale of L3Harris Technologies-built (NYSE: LHX) mission systems for integration onto Gulfstream G550 aircraft to support Italy's airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare missions.

The Department of Defense has issued a second draft solicitation to provide interested stakeholders with updated information on two fifth-generation TRICARE managed care support contracts that could be worth at least $58B combined, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.