The U.S. Air Force has awarded five companies positions on a potential 10-year, $751 million contract for depot maintenance support services. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the Air Force Sustainment Center launched a competitive acquisition process for the Depot Onsite Contract Augmentee Teams Fifth Generation program, also called DOCAT 5,...
Prism Maritime has secured a $25.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to provide alteration installation team and in-service engineering agent support. The Department of Defense said Wednesday that the contract includes options that, if exercised, will bring the total value of the effort to $218.4 million. Under the contract, th...
AeroVironment has agreed to acquire BlueHalo for approximately $4.1 billion in an all-stock transaction to establish a diversified defense technology company with a portfolio of capabilities, including uncrewed platforms, space technologies, short- and long-range loitering munitions, cyber and electronic warfare systems. In a joint release published...
Northrop Grumman has received a U.S. Navy contract worth approximately $318.7 million to continue providing technical engineering and integration support services for the Trident II (D-5) submarine-launched ballistic missile and underwater launcher systems of guided missile submarines. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the sole-source contract ...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Department of Defense released its long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program final rule (32 CFR Part 170) on October 11. Announced in 2019 by the Pentagon as a response to growing cybersecurity threats targeting sensitive defense information, the CMMC program aims to es...
Assertive Professionals has won a Missile Defense Agency contract worth about $127.3 million for general and executive administrative support services. The Department of Defense said Monday MDA launched a competitive procurement process through the SAM.gov website and received nine offers for the five-year contract. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract ...
Dave Scher, former managing director of MITRE Labs Infrastructure and Networking Innovation Center, was elevated to the role of deputy chief information officer at the not-for-profit corporation, he announced in a LinkedIn post Sunday. The executive has been with MITRE for over a decade, starting as a project lead in 2011. He then assumed roles...
Textron Aviation has received a contract modification worth $276.8 million from the U.S. Navy for T-54A aircraft, equipment and other related items and services. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Wichita, Kansas-based company will produce 26 units of T-54A aircraft, 24 of which will be under Lot 3 while the remaining two will be under...
Lockheed Martin‘s Sippican business has received a $139 million contract modification from the U.S. Army for Stinger missile fuze/warhead body assemblies. The Department of Defense said Thursday that contract work is expected to run through Nov. 30, 2027, with work locations and funding to be determined with each order. In April 2021, Sippican...
Real-time 3D simulation and digital twin technologies provide the U.S. government — especially the military — an ability to train its personnel “across a much broader spectrum of scenarios and ‘what if’s,’” explains Ret. VADM Sean Buck, president of the National Training and Simulation Association. Rather than be limited by what i...
