A federal judge decided to put on hold until Aug. 17 a lawsuit filed by Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, Reuters reported Saturday....
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for the Department of Defense’s acquisition and sustainment office and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said she believes the DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program “will become a federal standard for the whole of government rapidly,” FedScoop reported Thursday. Arrington...
An Akima subsidiary has won a potential $385M contract to provide logistics services for C-21 transport aircraft at multiple U.S. Air Force facilities across the globe. Akima Logistics Services will help the military branch maintain its airlifter platform, apply modifications, manage related programs and support deployments under the indefinit...
The Professional Services Council (PSC) has released its comments on the Department of Defense (DoD) and General Service Administration’s (GSA) actions to accelerate payments to government small business primes and small business subcontractors, the organization announced on Thursday. ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received an $84M contract modification to create technical publications about the VC-25B presidential aircraft, or Air Force One. The company and its subcontractors will provide integrated manuals for the aircraft system as part of the sole-source award, the Department of Defense said Wednesday....
The Department of Defense’s office of inspector general concluded that the awarding of the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was consistent with federal acquisition laws and policies, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday....
The Navy has awarded 42 small businesses spots on a potential 10-year, $6.1B contract for aircraft maintenance support services. The service received 42 offers for the kits, aircraft recovery, augmentation, components and engines contract and expects work to conclude by April 2030, the Department of Defense said Tuesday....
The Department of Defense has asked Congress nearly $2.9B in fiscal 2021 funds to procure hypersonic weapons systems, a 14 percent increase from the $2.5B DoD requested for the current fiscal year, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday....
Six companies have received a $550M increase to potential value of orders under a multiple-award contract to sustain U.S. Navy littoral combat ships docked at various locations within and outside the continental U.S. This contract action raises the ceiling for five ordering periods on MAC Tier 1 from $250M to $800M, the Department of Defense s...
The U.S. Air Force and Scaled Agile have formed a public-private partnership to provide recommendations on how to implement the Scale Agile Framework in a DevSecOps context in compliance with the Department of Defense’s Enterprise DevSecOps initiative....
