The Department of Health and Human Services is investing more than $1.4 billion in developing next-generation vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19. The funds are part of the government’s $5 billion Project NextGen initiative to enable the rapid development of longer-lasting COVID-19 vaccines, a new antibody therapy and technologies to ad...
Poland has requested to purchase 96 AH-64E Apache Helicopters and related equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $12 billion foreign military sale deal cleared by the State Department. Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as principal contractors on the proposed transaction that would include aircraft engines, n...
A Cherokee Federal business will support various functions at the Defense Health Agency headquarters under a four-year, $44 million contract. Cherokee Nation Defense Solutions will help DHA develop future plans for its clinical support division and clinical quality management branch, the Department of Defense’s Patient Safety Program, and DOD ...
The Defense Logistics Agency has released a solicitation for the fourth iteration of a contracting vehicle that would provide for research and development efforts in various agency mission-specific areas. According to the SAM.gov notice, the Emergent IV broad agency announcement will have a potential $125 million ceiling value for R&D program fo...
The U.S. Space Force has started to solicit information on technical approaches and concepts that could be used to facilitate the integration of government payloads onto a space vehicle without the need for major modifications. The service has provided information on two space vehicle variants meant to address the requirements of two separate missio...
Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
NASA is accepting industry proposals for the third iteration of its single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering safety and mission assurance engineering services. The SMAEC III procurement vehicle will support human spaceflight programs and projects at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and White Sands Test Faci...
Steampunk has received a five-year, $174 million task order to provide security assurance services for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The company said Wednesday it will provide information system security officer support to at least 115 systems under the ICE Security Assurance Support Services II task or...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) One Source business will continue providing the U.S. Army with geospatial services under a $99 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contractors will vie for each order of the award to determine funding and locations of work, which is expected to run through May 12, 2024, the Department of...
KC Wilberg, formerly a vice president at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Acuity to lead the technology consulting company’s newly formed intelligence practice. Reston, Virginia-based Acuity said Monday the two-decade federal market veteran aims to expand the firm’s technical service offerings for the intelligence community. W...
