The Department of Defense has issued a request for prototype proposals seeking spectrum-sharing concepts from members of the National Spectrum Consortium to support 5G development and test activities at military bases in Utah....
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a five-year, $404M contract modification for software, engineering and product support work on the U.S. Navy's airborne early warning and command-and-control aircraft platform. The Navy exercised options on a previously awarded contract to procure E-2D Advanced Hawkeye support services and two addi...
Monkton has received a potential $500M contract from the U.S. Space Force to support the commercialization of a mobile strategy. The company will provide technology and support services to help the Department of Defense design, build and field mission-enabling platforms to service members, civil servants and reservists operating at the tactical edge...
Govini analyzed the Department of Defense’s use of other transaction authorities and Small Business Innovation Research contracts between fiscal year 2015 and FY 2019 and found that the two contracting methods accounted for 10 percent, or $9.6B, of DoD’s spending on research, development, test and evaluation operations in 2019, Defense News repo...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential $353.3M contract from the U.S. Navy to provide guided missile round packs and spare replacement parts for the Block 2 and 2A variants of the Rolling Airframe Missile system. The contract includes foreign military sales to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Germany, the Departm...
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, told Government Matters in an interview posted Sunday about the creation of standards that third-party assessment organizations will use to evaluate and certify contractors under DoD's Cybersecurity Maturity Model C...
Six technology trade associations have asked the Department of Defense to consider their recommendations and respond to their queries with regard to the implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The trade groups presented their suggestions in a Thursday letter addressed to Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquis...
BAE Systems' San Diego Ship Repair business has won a potential $207.5M contract to modernize, repair and maintain a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship for the U.S. Navy. The company will perform these services as part of USS Boxer docking and selected restricted availability efforts, the Department of Defense said Friday....
The Department of Defense and a nonprofit corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding to move the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program forward, Nextgov reported Thursday. Katie Arrington, chief information security officer in DoD's acquisition office and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, confirmed the MOU between the Pentago...
A joint venture between Caddell Construction and Hawaii-based Nan has won a potential $110.4M contract from the U.S. Navy to build bachelor-enlisted quarters at Naval Base Guam. The JV will design and construct a building complex with multiple floors on Joint Region Marianas site to house unaccompanied U.S. Marines, the Department of Defense said...
