Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $601.3M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce additional submarine-launched ballistic missile systems for the service branch and the U.K. The company will manufacture Trident II D5 missiles and support deployed systems through the sole-source contract, the Department of Defense said Thursd...
Defense Secretary and 2020 Wash100 awardee Mark Esper said the Department of Defense would open up to 16 laboratories to test civilians for the new coronavirus and offer up to 5M respirator masks and 2K specialized ventilators, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The U.S. military is also preparing its hospital ships, USNS Comfort and USNS Me...
The potential impact of coronavirus fears on the implementation of new Department of Defense cybersecurity standards for contractors is not known, with DoD officials considering teleconferencing and online training sessions for third-party evaluators, FCW reported Monday....
The Department of Defense said it intends to “reconsider certain aspects” of its move to award the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), GeekWire reported Thursday. DoD asked the court for 120 days to review the contract decision and reconsider its assessment of th...
The U.S. Army has released its draft request for proposals for a potential $957M contract vehicle for cyber training services in support of organizations within the Department of Defense and other non-DoD agencies. A notice posted Wednesday says the Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise Technology contract will support the ...
Companies should conduct a self-assessment of their compliance with current government cybersecurity standards in order to prepare themselves for the mandatory audits under the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, according to a commentary piece on Federal News Network. The Potomac Officers Club will ho...
Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a $525.4M contract modification from the U.S. Army to build an additional 40 UH-60M helicopters. Sikorsky will provide 38 units of the multimission Black Hawk variant to the service branch and two aircraft to foreign military sales customers, the Department of Defense said Tuesd...
Insights from data sets have the potential to help organizations in efforts to comply with the U.S. government's information security requirements such as the Department of Defense Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, Federal News Network reported Monday. The Potomac Officers Club will host its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2. Cli...
The Department of Defense has awarded BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), X-energy and Westinghouse's government services business separate two-year contracts worth potentially $39.8M combined to design a mobile nuclear reactor model....
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured an $800M contract modification with the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead materials and services needed to build an 11th batch of P-8A multimission maritime planes. The award is intended to address advanced procurement requirements to manufacture eight P-8A aircraft for the service branch as well as four planes for New ...
