President Joe Biden has unveiled a $715 billion budget request for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2022, which reflects a 1.6 percent rise from the FY 2021 enacted amount of approximately $703.7 billion. The proposed defense budget proposal includes $27.7 billion in funds for nuclear modernization efforts, including $3 billion for B-21 Lon...
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has secured a potential $90 million contract to build a laser-based technology to measure the temperature, pressure, carbon dioxide and oxygen within the Orion spacecraft during NASA’s planned human missions to the moon. Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics will produce the Laser Air Mo...
An expert panel is set to discuss the transition of artificial intelligence technologies from the research and development phase into real-world operational settings at a GovCon Wire virtual event scheduled for Thursday. How can emerging technology take part in national security strategies and goals? This is what GovCon Wire’s next forum, them...
Michael McCord and Ronald Moultrie received Senate confirmation to serve as comptroller at the Department of Defense and as DOD undersecretary for intelligence and security, respectively, Defense News reported Friday. McCord, a 2015 Wash100 awardee, oversaw financial and budgetary functions at the Pentagon as its comptroller and chief financial offi...
The Department of Defense indicated in court documents filed Friday that it is preparing for more months of litigation over a contract protest filed by Amazon Web Services challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Federal News Network reported. DOD, Microsoft and AWS sa...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $950 million in combined value to 22 companies to procure intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment and services in support of U.S. customers under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Department of Defense said Thursday recipients of the multiple...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased Pentek for approximately $65 million as part of efforts to expand software-based radio, radio frequency system-on-chip and data recorder offerings. “The acquisition of Pentek is an excellent fit for our market and low-risk content expansion strategy,” Mark Aslett, president and CEO of Mercury and a 20...
Belcan, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners, has bought service-disabled veteran-owned professional services contractor VICTOR42 for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand work with government and defense customers. Washington, D.C.-based VICTOR42 offers special operations and information technology support to government clients such as th...
Charles Onstott, a nearly three-decade veteran of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined Calibre Systems as vice president and chief technology officer. He will advance innovation and growth initiatives through the development and application of enterprise information technology platforms and help identify opportunities fo...
Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has acquired The Kaizen Company for an undisclosed sum to expand consulting service offerings under the former’s international development practice. Washington, D.C.-based Kaizen will be part of Tetra Tech’s government services group and performs advisory and consulting work in the health, education, peacekeepin...
