SES has completed its $450 million acquisition of DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, formerly owned by defense contractor Leonardo DRS. SES said Monday it will merge the newly acquired business with the company’s government solutions subsidiary in a push to bring multi-orbit satellite communications services to the Department of Defense and othe...
A General Atomics business will provide the U.S. Army with engineering and technical services in support of its unmanned aircraft systems through July 27, 2027. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. was awarded a five-year, $456.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide the services needed to conduct UAS research and development efforts ...
Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) has received a potential $1.74 billion contract to initially produce and deliver 66 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine booster candidate to the U.S. government. The contract calls for the delivery of the initial doses in 2022 and includes options for the government to buy 234 million more doses of Moderna’s mRNA-1273.222...
Seven large companies and two small businesses won spots on a potential five-year, $1.31 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain training systems. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle covers simulator contractor O&M and instructional services, training systems management, product support and o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Michael Conlin, chief technology officer of Definitive Logic, was appointed chair of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform Task Force, a team formed by the American Society of Military Comptrollers to promote the Department of Defense’s PPBE reform awareness, ExecutiveBiz reported. Conlin...
The Department of the Air Force has undoubtedly led the U.S. military’s modernization push in the last few years — DAF leaders have long been champions of transformational changes like IT improvements, digital transformation efforts and data advancements. But officials argue that financial management, or FM, needs a bigger seat at the table in t...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a four-year, $697.9 million contract modification to conduct an engineered overhaul of USS Hartford, an attack submarine in the U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles class. Electric Boat will perform modernization, repair and maintenance services at a company facility in Groton, Connecticut, through...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded seven companies spots on a potential six-year, $762 million contract vehicle for subject matter expert services to the branch’s cloud-based data management platform. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform data preparation and architecture, data maturity model evaluation, algorithm development and dat...
Five companies will each receive a $72 million task order from the Washington Headquarters Services for non-personal services in support of the Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. Analytic Services, Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), CACI International (NYSE: CACI), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Science Applications International ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $533.8 million contract to manufacture fuze devices for U.S. Army artillery. The branch’s contracting command received two bids for the M782 multi-option fuze procurement via an online solicitation and expects work under the firm-fixed-price contract to be complete by July 26, 2027, t...
