Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will help the U.S. Air Force manage landing gear spares for the C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft under a $216 million contract modification. The award, part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, involves foreign military sales to seven countries and the NATO Airlift Management Program Office, according...
The federal government relies on healthcare services to fulfill various missions for the nation. Get to know the top healthcare and medical government contractors in 2023. Every year, the federal government allocates a significant portion of its budget to health care, aiming to obtain high-quality pharmaceuticals, therapies, and preven...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said his office will assume responsibilities for all 5G-related initiatives within DOD starting Oct. 1, and has been working with the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering to facilitate the transition, Breaking Defense repo...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will continue to help the Missile Defense Agency maintain complex simulation and modeling platforms under a three-year, $244.7 million contract modification. This award falls under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract and includes work on advanced discrimination approaches that support MDA’s Ballistic...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Noble Supply and Logistics a $562.5 million contract modification to continue to provide maintenance, repair and operation support at various U.S. military facilities overseas. The modification exercises the first option year of a previously awarded four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract f...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have secured other transaction prototype agreement modifications to extend the companies’ technology development services under the Missile Defense Agency’s Glide Phase Interceptor program. The additional funds would allow the contractors to fine-tune GPI concepts, as par...
Bluestone Investment Partners has made an investment in Precise Systems, a Maryland-headquartered provider of software development and other professional support services to the Department of Defense. The companies said Tuesday in a joint statement that Scott Pfister, former president and chief operating officer of Precise Systems, has been appointe...
The Department of Defense has moved to update the rates of progress payments meant to help defense contractors mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, DOD issued a memo that increases the progress payment rates for large businesses from 80 percent to 90 percent and from 90 percent to 95 percent for...
An HII (NYSE: HII) business unit will help the U.S. Army Research Laboratory develop, test and evaluate defense systems under a five-year, $94 million task order. HII Mission Technologies will conduct R&D of sensors, weapons and other combat systems for use by mission partners of the Department of Defense, the company said Monday. The parent...
