The U.S. Air Force has awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $950 million in combined value to 22 companies to procure intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment and services in support of U.S. customers under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Department of Defense said Thursday recipients of the multiple...
A joint venture between Jacobs (NYSE: J) and North Wind Portage has won a potential $6.4 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to conduct environmental cleanup efforts at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. DOE said Thursday its environmental management office chose Idaho Environmental Coalition as the winn...
Several technology companies and industry groups wrote a letter Tuesday to President Joe Biden urging him to ensure that the federal government prioritize the procurement of commercial software and tech platforms over custom-built systems in accordance with federal acquisition rules. Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), Govini, Palantir Technologies (NY...
An L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) subsidiary will modernize the forward-looking infrared systems on military rotary-wing aircraft for the U.S. Special Operations Command under a potential $96.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. L3Wescam received the noncompetitive award to support SOCOM’s Improved Rotary-wing Electro...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a $438 million contract modification that increases the ceiling value of U.S. Special Operations Command orders for radio frequency countermeasures technology. The award raises the maximum ordering amount in SOCOM’s Suite of Integrated RF Countermeasures program to $493 million, the Department of ...
DCS’ InfoScitex subsidiary will help the U.S. Air Force develop aerospace technologies and conduct multidomain operations analysis under a pair of seven-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $243 million combined. The single-award IDIQs entail support to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Techno...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2021 — Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, talked about how the U.S. Postal Service and company collaborated to deploy a distributed edge artificial intelligence platform in an effort to streamline the identification and tracking of packages, ExecutiveBi...
Jim Kelly, a vice president at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), has been promoted to senior VP for North America federal sales at the company. “Jim’s experience and drive make him an excellent leader to continue our strong momentum in this segment,” John Byrne, president of North America Sales at Dell, said in a statement. “I’m...
During a recent visit to Northrop Grumman, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Shawn Purvis, corporate vice president and president of Enterprise Services at Northrop Grumman, with her first 2021 Wash100 Award. Purvis received the first Wash100 Award of her career for her leadership in enabling large-scale technology infrastructure and tra...
The U.S. Air Force has named 33 awardees on a seven-year, $700 million contract vehicle to support minor construction projects at Joint Base Andrews and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Contractors will compete for task orders to build, repair and maintain infrastructure at the two Maryland-based military installations, the Department of Defense said F...
