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...
The U.S. Air Force has added Delta Resources, General Dynamics Information Technology and Modern Technology Solutions to the Pool 1 awardees on the potential $33.16 billion Information Analysis Center, or IAC, multiple-award contract to support research and development across the Department of Defense. The work, which will be performed in various lo...
Leidos subsidiary Dynetics, a mission-critical services provider offering hypersonics, force protection and other innovative capabilities to government agencies, has received a contract worth $204 million to provide the U.S. Army with missile launch system components and related items. Dynetics Contract Details The Department of Defe...
NCR Government Systems has secured a potential $335 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide the Defense Commissary Agency, or DeCA, with an Enterprise Business Operations Systems Solution. Under the single-award contract, the Germantown, Maryland-based company will support...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman $540.9 million in funding to support the company’s development of the Glide Phase Interceptor, a technology to detect and intercept hypersonic weapons. Work on the weapon countermeasure platform will be performed in Chandler, Arizona, until November 2029, the Department of Defense said Wednes...
