The Defense Intelligence Agency’s communications network — the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, or JWICS — started over three decades ago with an experiment to transmit a video feed securely between DIA headquarters and the Pentagon. Since then, JWICS has evolved into the top-secret sensitive, compartmented information, or S...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will continue the development of air-to-ground weapon system offerings for a U.S. Air Force program under separate contracts worth nearly $54 million combined. USAF awarded $18 million each to Lockheed and Northrop and another $17.7 million to L3Harris fo...
A joint venture between IT companies LinTech Global and Pragmatics has won a $140.4 million contract to provide end-to-end technical assistance to the U.S. Army. LinTech-Pragmatics JV outbid nine other vendors in an online solicitation for the cost-no-fee, firm-fixed-price IT services contract, which is targeted for completion by March 14, 2028, the...
Ten companies have won spots on a potential eight-year, $1 billion contract vehicle to carry out construction projects for the U.S. Navy at various government installations across six states. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command received 24 bids for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Def...
Edward Rice, Jr., a retired U.S. Air Force general who was a commander of its Air Education and Training Command, has joined the board of directors of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX). The company said Friday it looks to leverage Rice’s extensive military and national security background in developing products to address existing and future t...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has secured $102.5 million in contract options from the U.S. Navy to perform support work on heavyweight torpedo components for the service branch and the governments of Taiwan and Australia. The firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee award encompasses production, engineering and repair of M...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) business unit will help the U.S. Navy engineer and maintain Mark 48 heavyweight torpedoes under a potential five-year, $91.9 million contract. Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems segment will perform work for the branch’s Intermediate Maintenance Activity in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the De...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received two task orders worth $202.5 million combined under a basic ordering agreement with the U.S. Navy to provide services in support of the Joint Strike Fighter Program. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed’s aeronautics business will provide non-recurring engineering under a potential $170 million ...
Professional services firm cBEYONData has acquired Summit2Sea Consulting in a transaction that expands its data analytics capabilities for federal government customers. Summit2Sea has been providing data analytics, enterprise application modernization and robotic process automation support across Department of Defense programs since 2003 and maintai...
The Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide cloud environment has been years in the making, but now, the wheels are really beginning to turn. In December 2022, the DOD awarded its long-awaited $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract to four industry cloud service providers — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle — m...
