Open radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a new approach to RANs that separates traditionally integrated hardware and software and upholds a set of specific standards to enable multiple vendors to provide different components under one cloud service provider’s network. The Department of Defense has made 5G a top priority, and it has taken notic...
The U.S. Navy has awarded four small businesses positions on a potential five-year, $240 million contract to provide environmental remediation support services at contaminated sites located at Navy and Marine Corps bases and other government sites. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia, conducted an online so...
BAE Systems has secured a pair of contract modifications worth $104 million combined to build additional amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it will produce and deliver production representative test vehicles to support government testing of the ACV’s recovery variant in 2025 under a $79 million contra...
For the past 20-plus years, Jason Adolf has helped government agencies identify and implement technologies that help them modernize for the present and the future. As vice president for global public sector at Appian, he works closely with defense and civilian agencies as well as state and local government and education institutions to help them...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business has received a potential five-year, $518.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide system technical support services for the military branch’s Stryker armored fighting vehicles. Army Contracting Command conducted an online solicitation and received one offer for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the De...
Palm Beach, Florida-based investment firm Kanders & Co. has agreed to acquire certain antenna and test equipment businesses of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for approximately $200 million. L3Harris said Friday the planned divestment is part of its portfolio-shaping strategy for non-core assets and it expects to use the proceeds from the tran...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential $250 million contract modification to the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory to sustain its provision of research, development, test and evaluation support for Department of Defense programs. The modification raises the ceiling value of a previously awarded contract to $925.8 million, the ...
KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) government services business unit has secured a potential five-year, $99 million contract to help the Air Force Space Vehicles Directorate transition and integrate space domain awareness, battle management command and control and space enterprise capabilities. The Air Force Research Laboratory received one bid for the indefin...
With the U.S. fitting into a larger interconnected web of allies and mutually beneficial geopolitical relationships, anything the country does has ripple effects. Its maneuvers thus require negotiations with partners, which are enabled by technologies that are not just customized for one Department of Defense component, but accessible and usable by ...
In its 10th week, Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 popular vote race has officially become a clash of the titans — a race between executives from the powerhouse organizations at the forefront of the government contracting industry. The top 10 is comprised of leaders from influential enterprises like Google, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Department of Defe...
