The Defense Information Systems Agency has begun to seek proposals for the second iteration of a potential 10-year, $979.8 million contract to provide satellite communications services under the Commercial Broadband Satellite Program. The CBSP Satellite Services Contract II seeks to support the U.S. Navy’s commercial satcom requirements by enablin...
David Stagney, senior director at Pratt & Whitney, served as moderator for an expert panel discussion during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum on July 8th. The following panelist discussed embracing digital transformation and agile development featuring Preston Dunlap of the Department of the Air and Space Forc...
The U.S. Air Force has named 29 additional contractors as awardees on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
Greg Agnew, a partner at Acorn Growth Companies and a two-decade financial services industry veteran, has been appointed to lead the private equity firm’s mergers and acquisitions group. He will also succeed the retiring Robert Hinaman as head of Acorn’s Washington, D.C. office, the company said June 30. Agnew will oversee intermediary r...
Seven small businesses have won spots on a potential seven-year, $349 million contract to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers build oil and gas pipelines and other related structures. USACE received 19 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online-based solicitation process and the agency will determine funds and work locations upon issuanc...
A Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) business unit has won a potential $75.8 million Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 6 contract to help Department of Defense mission partners connect to DOD’s global military information network. Comcast’s government services group will replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits with new ethernet connections in t...
John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said the recently announced replacement to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contracting program is planned to leverage direct awards to multiple vendors of enterprise cloud services, DOD News reported Wednesday. The initial awards under the Joint Warfightin...
Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO of Peraton, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most esteemed and respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson last week during a recent visit to the company’s office. This marks the fourth consecutive year and fifth overall that Stu Shea has...
Defense companies will likely continue to pursue mergers and acquisitions as geopolitical issues evolve, even though defense spending remains essential flat for the rest of 2021, according to PwC’s midyear outlook report. The professional services firm reports the aerospace and defense industry saw record values and volumes of M&A activity...
Planet Labs, an Earth imagery provider to the government and business sectors, has agreed to join forces with special acquisition purpose company dMY Technology Group (NYSE: DMYQ) in a merger deal that would take the satellite operator public and give it a post-transaction equity value of $2.8 billion. San Franciso-based Planet said Wednesday it mai...
