KBR (NYSE: KBR) will continue to provide expeditionary staging area services to a U.S. Marine Corps installation in Quantico, Virginia, after the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command issued a $37 million task order modification under a multiple-award contract vehicle. NAVFAC exercised the third option of its global contingency services contr...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has issued an $800 million modification to a multiple-award contract with five companies that provide incidental construction and other global contingency services to the U.S. military. KBR (NYSE: KBR), Vectrus (NYSE: VEC), IAP and ECC joint venture, Fluor (NYSE: FLR) and AECOM (NYSE: ACM) will share ...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum on Tuesday, during which prominent leaders in the public and private sectors spoke on the advanced technologies, areas of interest and urgent challenges impacting procurement and acquisition strategies within the Department of Defense as well as how industry can help drive innov...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Climate Resilience: Reducing Risk and Creating Opportunities Fireside Chat on Thursday, which gathered together leading climate experts in a timely discussion on how industry is partnering with city, state and federal governments and communities to implement robust climate resilience and adaptation plans as extreme wea...
Extreme weather events continue to increase in frequency and severity on a global scale, and climate change is gaining greater importance across federal government agencies’ priorities and concerns. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, the U.S. has experienced at least...
Lisa Starkweather, formerly the director of programs at Cyber Defense Technologies, has joined Virginia-based security consulting firm Avint as chief operating officer. She will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Avint’s business that aims to help federal customers secure cyber and physical systems, the company said Wednesday. Sta...
AshBritt, ECC Constructors and DRC Emergency Services have been awarded five-year contracts to support the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ debris management mission. USACE received nine bids for the firm-fixed-price contracts via the internet and the agency expects work to conclude on Nov. 9, 2026, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. AshBr...
The Department of Homeland Security has received 637 proposals from 325 vendors for the potential 10-year, $10 billion FirstSource III information technology contract and that Phase I evaluation of the proposals is nearly complete, according to an updated notice to industry. DHS informed vendors that it expects to issue advisory downselect notificat...
Federal agencies are working to integrate artificial intelligence into their infrastructures as they iteratively replace outdated legacy systems and optimize essential operations to match adversarial capabilities in the digital age. As a boost to this critical initiative, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio introduced the Adv...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) recorded $3.5 billion in revenue during the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 and $403 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, up 16 percent from the same period last year. The Reston, Virginia-based technology services contractor said Tuesday the 7 percent revenue growth from the prior...
