William LaPlante, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has signed a waiver allowing DOD to accept lots 13 and 14 deliveries of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter jet. “Acceptance of the aircraft is necessary for national security interests,” LaPlante sa...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a $532.9 million contract modification to continue design, development research and lead yard support services associated with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class attack submarines. Contract work will occur at Electric Boat’s facilities in Groton, Connecticut, and Newport...
Lily Zeleke, acting deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD is on schedule to award the potential $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract by the end of 2022, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “December 2022 is still the date we’re aiming for, for awards,” Zeleke said at an event Wedneday. “I can...
Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), recently accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in the government contracting (GovCon) community, during a visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the department’s headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. Executive Mosaic has recognized&n...
Cybersecurity has become the latest frontier in national security with the expansion and proliferation of the digital environment in recent decades. Today, cyber is also an emerging and important component of warfighting, and the U.S. government has placed a high priority on better protecting our critical information, data and cyber assets as the th...
Three companies have secured contract modifications worth up to $5.1 billion combined over a five-year period for sonobuoy production and delivery services to the U.S. Navy. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Sparton and Sonobuoy Systems, formerly Ultra USSI, can pursue individual orders through exercised options under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
With the rise of new technologies and the expansion of the digital world, cyber has become a critical component of warfighting, national security and innovation for the United States. In February 2022, cyber took the global spotlight as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, but U.S. cyber forces were ahead of the threat and played...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Iron Bow Technologies a potential five-year, $743 million contract to provide software support services to the Department of Defense’s Fourth Estate agencies. The 4th Estate Cisco Software Enterprise Agreement has three support areas and the first one is the Global Enterprise Modernization Softwar...
Mitre has received a $486.1 million cost-reimbursement-option contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue serving as administrator of a federally funded research and development organization. The Department of Defense said Monday Mitre will support the National Security Engineering Center through Sept. 30, 2023, and conduct contract work in Bedford...
Eight companies have secured positions on a 10-year, $194.5 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide commercial aircrew and maintenance training services to domestic and international students. Each awardee will receive $2,500 at the time of award from fiscal 2022 administrative funds under the Pentagon’s foreign military sales program, the ...
