The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has issued an $800 million modification to a multiple-award contract with five companies that provide incidental construction and other global contingency services to the U.S. military. KBR (NYSE: KBR), Vectrus (NYSE: VEC), IAP and ECC joint venture, Fluor (NYSE: FLR) and AECOM (NYSE: ACM) will share ...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has secured a potential 10-year, $4.5 billion contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for user-facing and data center services. GDIT will provide such IT services in support of multiple security domains and networks, including the Intelligence Community’s cloud and de...
Bill Becker, vice president of product management at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said agencies seeking to protect data should recognize the importance of user authentication. Becker wrote that agencies should consider raising the required authentication level as users seek to gain access to higher-level data and applications. “The key is to...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has won a potential nine-year, $225.5 million contract to perform mission assurance support work for a U.S. Space Force program that provides full launch service capability to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. ASRC Federal Space & Defense will help the military branch engineer, integrate, verify and...
Systems Planning and Analysis holds a position on one of the 10 pools that compose a multiple-award General Services Administration contract vehicle for technology platforms and services intended to support the Department of Defense’s multidomain battlespace operations. “The ASTRO award provides additional opportunities for our mission-focus...
Artificial intelligence company Torch.AI has acquired The DataTech Group for an undisclosed sum to provide further support to data processing efforts in the government sector with the use of technology. Illinois-based DataTech offers an information technology platform for public and private sector customers to plan, analyze and manage organizational...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has secured a potential $133 million contract to help a Department of Defense organization secure personnel information systems from cyber threats. Under the five-year contract, ASRC Federal Netcentric will run a cybersecurity operations hub to support information technology functions at the Defense Human Resources Activit...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Amentum a $461.8 million contract to run the Bahamas-based Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, which provides a testing environment for military maritime warfare research. Six proposals were submitted to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division for the AUTEC operation and maintenance contract, the Depart...
Jill Albertelli, formerly the senior vice president of transformation and strategy at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business, has been named president of the subsidiary’s military engines organization. She succeeds Matthew Bromberg, who has held the role since 2017 and led F135 engine program implementation efforts f...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has urged Congress to fully fund the government for fiscal year 2022 because he believes a long-term continuing resolution will have a significant impact on key programs at the Department of Defense. Austin, a 2021 Wash100 awardee, made the statement Monday after President Biden approved stopgap measure to maintain age...
