Mayvin, a woman-owned small business, has won a potential $95 million hybrid contract to research and develop military weapons for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Annandale, Virginia-based company will also provide acquisition and sustainment support services to SOCOM personnel as part of the cost-no-fee and firm-fixed-price award, the Depa...
Dell Marketing has received a 53-month, $127.5 million task order to provide the Defense Health Agency subscription licenses for collaboration and communication platforms, FedHealthIT reported Monday. DHA placed the order through the potential 10-year, $4.4 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions blanket purchase agreement, according to the repo...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential five-year, $470.7 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to provide checkpoint screening equipment deployment services. TSA announced the contract award in a notice posted Thursday on the SAM website. The overall scope of work includes surveys, design support, on-site coordinatio...
BigBear.ai has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company GigCapital4 (Nasdaq: GIG) in a deal that will take the Columbia, Maryland-based data analytics company public with an enterprise value of approximately $1.57 billion. Both parties expect to complete the transaction in the third quarter of 2021 and Reggie Brothers, CEO of BigBear...
ST Engineering North America‘s marine business in Pascagoula, Mississippi, will build another vessel to support worldwide oceanographic survey operations of Military Sealift Command under a $149 million fixed-price-incentive contract modification. Naval Sea Systems Command definitized a contract item for the design and construction of T-AGS 67...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, cleared in May the strategy document for DOD’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept that aims to facilitate data sharing among services through a warfighting communications network that will use artificial intelligence, 5G and other emerging technology. L...
In recent years, the Department of Defense (DOD) and Intelligence Community (IC) have recognized the strategic importance of information technology (IT) and data management. The IC and the DOD have made efforts to bolster their data management processes to enable quick and secure data usage. As the reliance on IT grows, public and private leaders...
The Department of Energy has started its bid solicitation process for a potential 10-year, $3 billion contract for management and operation services at a radioactive waste disposal facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico. DOE said Thursday it will conduct a full and open competition for the cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Was...
The State Department has approved Australia’s request to buy 29 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters, built by Boeing (NYSE: BA), along with associated equipment and support services under a potential $3.5 billion foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. The transaction also includes 29 Modernized Target Acquisition Designation S...
Deanna Hom Lund, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS), has been appointed to the defense technology provider’s board of directors. Kratos said Thursday its board selected Lund to fill one of the two vacant seats after the nomination and governance committee unanimously rec...
