Textron’s Bell subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $557 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide spares, repair and logistics support for rotors and drive components of the service branch’s H-1 light attack helicopter fleet. The Department of Defense said Thursday work will occur in Fort Worth, Texas, and Cherry Point, North Car...
The Senate voted 85-14 on Wednesday to pass a defense bill that would authorize $895.2 billion in fiscal year 2025 funding for national defense. The Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, would authorize $849.9 billion for the Department of Defense and $33.3 billion for the Department...
Until surprisingly recently, U.S. state and local governments have had a limited awareness of populations and demographics; it’s unclear who lives where and especially what their health needs might be. This becomes glaringly apparent when a weather disaster hits. When Hurricane Sandy pummeled the northeast in 2012, followed by several other disast...
Current events are changing and shaping the military health landscape. From the global pandemic to increasingly contested environments, military branches are considering a wide range of emerging factors as they look to advance military health. GovCon Wire sat down with Corey Hastings, chief financial officer at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation f...
There are few people more qualified on the subject of wireless networking and communications than Dr. Thomas Rondeau. The highly knowledgeable, innovative official is currently steering research and development work on future generation, or FutureG, technologies at the Department of Defense as a principal director. He’s been at the DOD in var...
Palantir has received a potential $400.7 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Army to continue its work on the military branch’s Vantage platform. According to an award notice published Tuesday, the sole-source recompete contract enables the continuation of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, model support of the Army Vantage software platform...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and target sensitive government information, the protection of controlled unclassified information, or CUI, has become a top priority for the Department of Defense and its contractors. NIST Special Publication 800-171 plays a key role in DOD’s ...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded 17 companies positions on the third iteration of the potential five-year, $1 billion Public Information and Communication Services, or PICS, contract. According to an award notice published Tuesday, the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations competed the multiple-award PICS III indefinite-del...
Robert Dowling is humble about his qualifications and leadership bona fides, but his resume suggests a finance and business guru twice his age. Dowling has deep experience in mergers and acquisitions—he has successfully brought to term more than 35 transactions in the government services and aerospace and defense markets, exceeding $2 billion in e...
The intelligence tradecraft and landscape have shifted dramatically in recent years due to emerging technologies and increasingly sophisticated threats. We caught up with former CIA leader Jennifer Ewbank at the 2024 Baird Government & Defense Conference last month to get an update on how industry and IC agencies are adapting to and tackling tr...
