SkyWater Technology (Nasdaq: SKYT) has secured $99 million in additional funds from the Department of Defense to productize and qualify a process for manufacturing 90-nanometer electronics designed to withstand harsh radiation environments. The award follows a $170 million DOD investment announced three years ago to add a radiation-hardened semicond...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering OUSD(R&E) at the Department of Defense (DoD), recently accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest annual honor bestowed to the highest members of the government contracting (GovCon) community, during a visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Executive Mosaic is thrilled to recog...
Phoenix International Holdings will help the U.S. Navy conduct worldwide deep ocean search and recovery operations under a five-year, $112 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Largo, Maryland-based company will perform engineering and technical support work for the Navy’s Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Di...
The Department of Defense continues to issue accelerated payments meant to help defense contractors withstand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic even after the White House declared the health crisis over, Bloomberg reported Monday. In March 2020, DOD issued a memo that increases the progress payment rates for large businesses from 80 percent to 90...
Connected Alliances has received a five-year, $99 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force operationalize a strategy framework for sustaining weapon systems. The military branch expects the output from the project to drive policy improvements and requirements document production, as well as inform concept of operations and performance work statem...
Todd Borkey, most recently chief technology officer at HII’s (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division, has assumed the role of executive vice president and CTO of the Newport News, Virginia-based defense and technology services contractor. He will report directly to HII President and CEO Christopher Kastner and oversee research and development an...
Twenty-two companies have won spots on a seven-year, $675 million contract to provide manpower, equipment and non-personal services for the U.S. Army’s electronic security systems. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received 34 bids for the procurement vehicle and estimated contract work to finish on Sept. 25, 2029, the Department of Defense sai...
Corvid Technologies has won a potential 10-year, $385 million contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the Missile Defense Agency’s test instrumentation systems. MDA placed a $1.2 million task order immediately after its award of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Mooresville, North Carolina-based Corvid ...
Modernization and digital transformation are linchpins of today’s GovCon landscape. As new technologies emerge, existing ones evolve and missions shift, the public sector is looking to industry more and more to help bring the U.S. government into the modern era and poise our military forces for technological dominance. Firms like Client Solut...
ECS Federal has won a potential $429.5 million task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to help the U.S. Army’s Network Enterprise Technology Command secure endpoint devices. The firm-fixed-price award was issued under the General Services Administration’s Alliant II governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle, the Departme...
