5G technology is helping the U.S. government to modernize its communications and network capabilities, especially in military applications. But because so many government and military operations, weapons systems and communications rely on network connectivity today, 5G is no longer just an option, but a necessity, experts argue. “From my perspecti...
Carahsoft Technology will provide the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency with ServiceNow licenses, learning credits and support services as part of a $138.1 million hybrid firm-fixed-price/labor hour call order. The recent award was made under the company’s blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Defense for the Enterpri...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has secured a $414.8 million contract modification to provide multiple items used in U.S. Army ground vehicles. General Dynamics Land Systems will deliver the articles for the branch’s family of light armored vehicles, Abrams main battle tanks, Stryker family of vehicles, Buffalo and Cougar mine-resi...
James F.X. Payne has spent his career making efforts to enhance homeland security. With stints at companies such as Bechtel and Dun & Bradstreet, the Washington, D.C.-based executive has worked consistently with U.S. Intelligence Community clients to develop strategies to prevent incursions on intellectual property and infrastructure. He additio...
Metrostar has won a five-year, $155 million contract to help a U.S. Marine Corps organization manage business information systems. The Reston, Virginia-based company will provide support services to USMC’s Technology Services Organization under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense announ...
Ideas, Commitment, Results has received a 10-year, $532 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide machine learning, visualization approaches and data analytics and science services in support of accelerated special programs. Work under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase III award will be conducted at ICR’s Auror...
Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has secured a five-year, $228.2 million contract to implement hardware and software updates to the U.S. Navy’s H-1 light attack helicopter fleet. The company will modernize the baseline configuration of the airframe, flight controls, aircraft wiring interface terminals and weapon systems interfaces u...
Anthony Robbins, vice president of the federal business at NVIDIA, accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office in Herndon, VA. “Anthony Robbins is an artificial intelligence evangelist known to almost everyone in t...
Beacon Global Strategies has hired four former government officials who will bring their knowledge of national security matters to the company’s advisory work in various practice areas such as risk analysis and government acquisition. Michael Groen, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who formerly led the Department of Defense’s Joint Ar...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will continue its engineering and technical support of the U.S. Navy’s Synthetic Signature Generation-based training systems under a six-year, $83.3 million contract. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is aimed at preparing the SSG trainers to meet the branch’s fleet requirements...
