U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded $450 million in contract modifications to seven companies to provide military freefall and static line support services. The modifications increase the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract’s ceiling value to $650 million and extend the performance period from five years to eight years, the De...
Derrick Pledger, vice president and director of the Digital Modernization Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said establishing deep strategic partnerships with other companies could help facilitate the development of new capabilities and platforms that could help address mission challenges facing federal agencies. Pledger wrote that there are three...
The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a set of cybersecurity standards created in 2019 to fortify the Defense Industrial Base against the increasing threat of cyberattacks and protect sensitive, unclassified information shared by the DOD and its contractors. CMMC incorporates these cyberse...
Travis Langster, vice president and general manager of COMSPOC, will move from the space traffic management services provider to the Department of Defense to assume the post of principal director of DOD space policy, SpaceNews reported Monday. He will serve within the office of the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense,...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Knight Construction & Supply a $115.6 million contract to perform rehabilitation work at the McNary Lock and Dam in Umatilla, Oregon. Under the nine-year contract, the company will change the dam’s isolated-phase bus and refurbish intake gates of the barrier, the Department of Defense said Monda...
Peraton has received a potential five-year, $118.2 million contract to design and develop software for a new U.S. Army system intended to connect military sensors, operators and weapon launchers. The service will use the software in the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, also known as IBCS, the Department of Defense said Thurs...
A General Electric (NYSE: GE) subsidiary has received a five-year, $149.7 million order to deliver military helicopter engine supplies to the U.S. Army. The Defense Logistics Agency ordered the T700 items from GE Aviation under a sole-source basic ordering agreement., the Department of Defense said Friday. The delivery order does not include option ...
The U.S. subsidiary of British infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has won a $697.8 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide design and construction services to Fort Meade in Maryland. The project involves work on the fourth East Campus Building and a new parking structure on the military installation, the Department of...
Twenty-one companies have won spots on a five-year, $450 million contract to provide design-build services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Facility Repair and Renewal program. USACE received 80 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Contractors will compete to carry out projects at...
Chris Pehrson, formerly an executive at General Atomics, has been appointed chief growth officer of defense technology company Parry Labs. He will be responsible for driving growth initiatives through business capture, program growth and strategic planning efforts in his new position, Parry Labs said Monday. Parry Labs CEO John Parkes said Pehrsonâ€...
