NASA is soliciting proposals for a follow-on contract that will provide for operations, maintenance and other support services needed at Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, and several agency locations. According to a solicitation notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov, the Wallops Range Contract has two areas of core requirements: prog...
Jennifer Swanson When fully realized, digital engineering in the Army will take engineering process components represented in disconnected documents and unify them in a virtual setting, Jennifer Swanson, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software, said in a May interview with Breaking Defense. Digital enginee...
Defense contractors are in focus lately and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is the first to report third-quarter earnings since recently. In the three months that ended Sept. 24, 2023, net sales increased nearly two percent to $16.9 billion compared to the third quarter in 2022. Lockheed said Tuesday its net earnings reached $1.68 billion. The...
Information technology services provider 22nd Century Technologies has acquired public safety technology developer Queues Enforth Development for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of government software offerings. QED specializes in computer-aided dispatch and records management software systems that support over 300 state, local and federa...
Mansour “Manny” Yusuf, chief cloud/edge architect at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies seeking to support enterprise applications and activities in a more flexible manner while reducing security risks and costs and improving performance should consider adopting a software-defined data center. Yusuf wrote in an article publ...
United States officials are facing constantly evolving homeland security threats and challenges in today’s interconnected world. According to Scott Recinos, senior vice president of homeland security at LMI, environmental impacts from climate change are becoming increasingly more consequential to homeland security missions. “The escalating ...
Seventeen cybersecurity and defense agencies from different countries joined the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in updating a guidance on the implementation of secure-by-design principles in software development. The joint guidance was revised based on input from individuals, nonprofit organizations and industry members workin...
Rich Scigaj, formerly partner and chief financial and administrative officer at Cyber Capital Partners, has been named chief financial officer at Easy Dynamics, a McLean, Virginia-headquartered provider of cybersecurity products and services to the government sector. The two-decade industry veteran will oversee the company’s overall financial ...
Mergers and acquisitions deals are a feature of any industry where there are large enough companies and funds to support new combinations and ownership arrangements. They’ve become a particularly notable occurrence across markets in the 21st century, as large conglomerates buy up smaller operations. Government contracting is no different. Accordin...
The U.S. Army has posted a draft request for proposal for a follow-on multiple award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that will be used to procure research and development capabilities in support of Space and Missile Defense Command missions. According to the SAM.gov posting, the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration II ...
