Contract Awards

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $194.5M modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract that provides for production concurrency updates to the U.S. Navy‘s and the Australian government’s P-8A Aircrew Training System. The system requires these updates to accommodate initial training for future mission functions, the Defense Department said Wednesday. …

Advanced Technology International has received a $400M “other transaction” agreement modification from the U.S. Air Force to continue to manage a consortium tasked with developing prototypes of space-related technology platforms for the Defense Department. DoD said Tuesday ATI will further guide the Space Enterprise Consortium in efforts to build ground, launch and …

Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a potential $51M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support installation of close-in weapons systems on U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy ships. Reston, Va.-based Serco Inc. said Wednesday it will help the military services install, update and modify CIWS designed to recognize and destroy anti-ship missiles. The single-award …

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected six entities to conduct advanced geospatial analytics research efforts as part of the Boosting Innovative GEOINT Broad Agency Announcement program. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), OGSystems and SRI International will leverage machine learning technologies for agricultural crop assessment, spectral dataset processing and infrastructure management, NGA  said Tuesday. The efforts …

Four companies have each won a potential five-year, $75M contract to provide the Food and Drug Administration’s center for biologics evaluation and research with data, tools and infrastructure for use in the surveillance of vaccines, tissues, blood products and other biologics. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says IBM (NYSE: IBM), …

An ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $214.2M contract to help the U.S. Agency for International Development update tools and methods used to collect population, health and nutrition data throughout the country. ICF Macro will perform work through Sept. 9, 2023, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. …

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $2.85B contract modification to produce an additional 18 KC-46 aircraft designed to support the U.S. Air Force‘s aerial refueling missions. The company said Monday the lot 4 tanker production contract also covers the provision of two spare engines, five wing refueling pod kits and initial spares. Work will …

Alion Science and Technology has secured a potential $74.7M contract from the U.S. Navy to provide professional support services to Naval Sea Systems Command 21. The company will help NAVSEA’s surface warfare directorate manage key programs and support planning and readiness, financial, engineering and logistics activities, the Defense Department said Monday. SEA 21 oversees the life …

Valiant Integrated Services has received a potential three-year, $140M contract to provide training support services for the Army National Guard. The company said Monday it will support the service’s readiness efforts through the delivery of live, virtual and constructive training platforms to troops and formations at more than 50 locations …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a potential $2B campaign that seeks to invest in research-and-development programs that focus on artificial intelligence. The AI Next campaign is a multi-year investment effort that aims to develop “third wave” AI technologies with contextual reasoning capabilities designed to facilitate human-machine collaboration, DARPA …