The U.S. Navy has awarded AAR (NYSE: AIR), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and StandardAero separate contract modifications worth $318.1 million combined to maintain Poseidon maritime patrol planes and engines. All three awards include depot-level support services for Australia and other foreign military sales customers, the Department of Defense said Thursday. A...
Forescout Technologies will continue to help the Department of Defense protect its networks and other critical assets from cyberthreats under a multiyear contract in support of DOD’s Comply-to-Connect program. The company said Thursday it will provide its cybersecurity platform to enable DOD to control and manage access to traditional information ...
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company is working to help customers meet their mission requirements and priorities by making investments to deliver cloud capabilities to the edge in support of mission operators. Wagner wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that...
Micro Focus Government Solutions’ (MFGS) Micro Focus Fortify software vulnerability analysis system has been approved by the Iron Bank and included in the U.S. Air Force-run Platform One (P1) as part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s DevSecOps initiative. MFGS’ Fortify leverages zero trust, automated testing and code scanning capabilities t...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has acquired Advanced Solutions Inc., a Colorado-based space software company, as part of efforts to further build up its space systems business. Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab said Tuesday it paid $40 million for ASI and will potentially make an additional payment of $5.5 million performance earnout based on r...
Members of Congress want the intelligence community to invest more in commercial technology platforms and share data with the Defense Department as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act. On Sept. 30, the House Intelligence Committee passed its version of the bill that authorizes IC spending levels 0.5 percent above the White Ho...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary will continue to provide lead yard services to the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class submarine construction program under a one-year, $482.1 million contract modification. Naval Sea Systems Command issued the cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to General Dynamics Electric Boat as part of a previously awarded con...
The Department of Defense has completed the market research for a program that will replace the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud initiative and expects to decide by the end of October which vendors will be allowed to take part in the new program, Federal News Network reported Thursday. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability program will...
Austal USA has received a potential $385.1 million contract to finalize the design and begin the construction of the U.S. Navy’s Navajo-class Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ship. The Mobile, Alabama-based shipbuilder will initially build two T-ATS vessels under a $144.6 million fixed-price-incentive modification to a previously awarded contract an...
The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems will help the Defense Logistics Agency maintain operational technology used to manage the storage and distribution of fuel products for Department of Defense missions across the globe. Contract work includes preventive and corrective maintenance work on sensors, network communications, controls, alarms and gauges a...
