The State Department has cleared a potential $5.9 billion foreign military sale of Boeing-manufactured (NYSE: BA) multimission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft and related equipment to the Canadian government. Canada asked to buy 16 P-8A aircraft and 111 items such as joint tactical radios, GPS navigation systems and guardian laser transm...
The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking feedback on a draft solicitation for its potential five-year, $300 million Engineering for Virtualized Enterprise and Remote Access Technology program. AFRL expects the EVEREST contract will have a cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity structure and comprise software, hardware and r...
Recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense as a top priority, artificial intelligence offers numerous benefits for the warfighter – but these potential advantages are not limited to the nation alone. While the DOD has accelerated its work to develop and deploy AI technologies, so have U.S. adversaries, making the race to perfect AI tools mo...
The State Department has cleared a potential $611 million foreign military sale of MQ-9A Block 5 unmanned aerial vehicles, manufactured by a General Atomics affiliate, and related equipment to the Netherlands. The Dutch government asked to buy four modernized MQ-9As with mobile ground control systems, navigation systems, GPS modules, targeting senso...
The General Services Administration has released the final requests for proposals for six contracts comprising the follow-on One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle program. GSA said Friday OASIS+ is composed of multiagency contracts for the acquisition of complex non-information technology services from the private sector: unrestri...
Edgewater Federal Solutions will provide enterprise information technology and professional engineering services to the FBI’s IT infrastructure division a contract valued at $138 million over five years. The company said Wednesday it will help the bureau manage data center, cloud computing and remote office systems at three domestic sites. Dav...
The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to continue its purchase of engineering technical and maintenance support services for C, D, E and F variants of the F/A-18 fighter aircraft from the U.S. government under a potential $1.8 billion foreign military sales agreement. Sigmatech, Kay and Associates, KBR (NYSE: KBR), L3Harris Techno...
The U.S. Navy has chosen 10 companies for a potential five-year, $178.4 million contract vehicle to help the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific manage, engineer and secure information technology systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a $76.4 million initial award covering three base years a...
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Atomics a $1.19 billion modification to a contract centered on the aircraft launching platform of CVN 81, the future carrier USS Doris Miller. The firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee amendment includes additional scope to produce, assemble, test and manage the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, and make neces...
Julia MacDonough, a 25-year military and civil space veteran, has joined Draper as vice president and general manager of space systems. She will lead strategy execution efforts meant to drive growth in one of Draper’s key business areas, the nonprofit research and development company Wednesday. Her career began in the U.S. Air Force, where she...
