The Department of State has approved a possible $445 million foreign military sale to Bahrain for F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft sustainment and related equipment. The proposed transaction adds new items to a previous FMS request valued at $47 million, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday. General Electric Aerospace and Lockhee...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond On Nov. 10, 2025, DFARS 252.204-7021 officially started requiring defense contractors to maintain CMMC certification at levels specified in their contracts. What many contractors don’t realize is that their eligibility for award is determined earlier in the process by a different...
David Lee, field chief technology officer at Saviynt, said adopting a cloud-based, artificial intelligence-powered identity security platform could help government agencies mitigate risks by unifying a wide range of activities and tools in a single place. What Is Identity Governance & Administration? In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Lee...
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, or TIP, has introduced a public data platform designed to provide insights into how NSF allocates funding across emerging technology areas. In the first part of this two-part series published in August, Ann Gabriel, senior vice president for global strat...
The Department of State has approved two potential foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia, totaling $1 billion. The proposed transactions, valued at $500 million each, aim to support the Royal Saudi Land Forces Aviation Corps, or RSLFAC, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday. What Is Included in the CLSSA Foreign Military Sale Or...
Peerless Technologies has acquired Maryland-based defense contractor QED Systems. Peerless said in a LinkedIn post Monday that the acquisition is part of its effort to expand its capabilities to better support military customers. “Together, Peerless and QED offer expanded capabilities and stronger mission support to our warfighters,” sta...
Cummins Power Generation has secured a $500 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce and make minor modifications to 500-kilowatt skid-mounted mobile electric power generator sets and power plants for Poland through the foreign military sales program. Work locations and funding will be set at the delivery-order level, the Department of War...
The Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued up to $471.9 million to provide engineering support for Nimitz-class and Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. What Work Will HII Provide Under the Navy Contract? The award covers engineering, technical and design work along with logistics, configuration and d...
BAE Systems Land & Armaments has secured a contract modification valued at more than $390 million to produce additional Bradley A4 infantry fighting vehicles for the U.S. Army, supporting the service’s multiyear effort to replace legacy Bradley variants with the A4 configuration, which offers improvements in mobility, lethality and crew pr...
Northrop Grumman has secured a sole-sourced contract worth up to $100 million to support the U.S. Air Force’s Stand-in Attack Weapon, or SiAW, subsystem. The award covers active seeker components, test and evaluation support, and science and technology development, the Department of Defense said. Work will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, un...
