The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is the Department of Defense’s latest effort to enforce cybersecurity requirements for contractors. While CMMC is not necessarily new — read below for more information about CMMC’s history — there are a few things contractors need to know about the program as it becomes a defense contrac...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded 85 companies positions on the potential 10-year, $11.9 billion J6 Enterprise Technology Services 2.0 contract to provide information technology support services for DLA and other Department of Defense components. DOD said Tuesday the DLA Contracting Services Office in Philadelphia received 259 offers through ...
MITRE has booked a U.S. Air Force contract valued at $541.3 million to provide support to the National Security Engineering Center. The Department of Defense said Monday the contractor will continue serving as the administrator of the federally funded research and development center for another year. Under the cost-reimbursement option contract...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has agreed to buy Azure Summit Technology for approximately $1.275 billion in cash as part of efforts to expand its technology offerings for the Department of Defense and other national security agency customers. CACI said Monday it expects the all-cash transaction to conclude in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025...
AAR Government Services (NYSE: AIR) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) have been awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts by the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Friday the firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials contracts, which total an estimated $1.20 billion, cover maintenance and support services for the P-8A...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has secured up to $3 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding to work with the Department of Defense to broaden the production of secure semiconductors for the U.S. government and ensure the security of the domestic chip supply chain as part of the Secure Enclave program. The company said Monday Secure...
By Ron Lear, Vice President of Models and Frameworks at ISACA The Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI, has grown and evolved quite a bit in its 30-plus-year history. Tracing CMMI’s roots back to the Software CMM first released in 1991 for the Department of Defense, CMMI set the bar for process improvement and is...
Safran Defense and Space, a subsidiary of Safran Group, has booked a $275 million contract from the U.S. Army to supply Laser Target Locator Module II systems. The Department of Defense said Monday the cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract also covers the delivery of associated spare parts, contractor logistical support and mai...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has secured a $6.75 billion block-buy contract from the U.S. Navy to design and build up to eight T-AO 205 John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler ships. The Department of Defense said Friday Naval Sea Systems Command expects General Dynamics NASSCO to perform contract work in California, Louisiana, Michig...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 10 companies spots on a $669.9 million contract for the repair, maintenance and modernization of non-nuclear surface ships in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers continuous maintenance, emergent maintenance and Chief of Naval Operations availabilities, the Department of Def...
