The U.S. Army has awarded 17 companies positions on a potential $1.6 billion contract for commercial software, hardware and related incidental services. Army Contracting Command received 50 offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate funds upon award of each task order, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The vendors will compete ...
Bowhead Total Enterprise Solutions has secured a $249 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide a range of services in support of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Alaska Native information technology, communications and engineering small business will receive task orders calling for internal and external program management, administrative, netw...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won an $829.2 million task order to perform IT help desk services in support of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The company will provide these services at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. and other DIA facilities for over a decade, the Department of Defense said ...
Voyager Space has agreed to purchase a majority stake in Space Micro, a San Diego-based maker of satellite communications, electro-optical and digital systems, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help the latter expand its technology portfolio in support of defense, civil and commercial customers. “The satellite constellation market stand...
The Department of Defense has asked Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) to compete for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “Our commitment to supporting our nation’s military and ensuring that our warfighters and defense partners have access to the ...
Leidos‘ Dynetics subsidiary has won a $478.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a thermal protection system intended to protect surface-to-surface hypersonic missiles from intense heat during flight. Dynetics will build the Hypersonic Thermal Protection System prototype and help the military branch conduct materials research, inspe...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have received other transaction agreements from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor design concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA said Friday prototypes that will emerge through th...
A shipbuilding division at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has secured a $113.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead-time materials needed to build the LHA 9 amphibious assault ship. The modification is the sixth increment of the LLTM procurement contract awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding and brings the total ...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential two-year, $86.6 million task order from the U.S. Navy to integrate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems on military vehicles. The company will perform C4ISR production, engineering and fielding work for the lan...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Eric Trexler, vice president of Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure Sales – Theatre Lead Company for Forcepoint, about cybersecurity challenges, the future of warfare and our military systems and the impact of ransomware and malware on it as well as the potential ...
