The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking commercially made lightweight technologies that could provide nuclear power and propulsion for small to medium military spacecraft sensing and communication systems. DIU said the Department of Defense will need more electrical power for smaller spacecraft as future missions will expand on new capabilities such ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a three-year, $101.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide Hellfire missile systems to domestic and international defense customers. Army Contracting Command obligated the full amount using defense-wide funds from the U.S. military and foreign military sales funds from Indonesia, Greece,...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has won a potential $91.3 million contract to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers define requirements for projects intended to address resilience and security challenges in military energy infrastructure. The McLean, Virginia-headquartered company will also perform vulnerability assessment work and explore potential...
Government contractors came from private companies that manufacture goods and services for government establishments. This group of people is like government organizations that come in different shapes and sizes. A group of government contracting companies is hired by the government when their contracts win through bidding. U.S Government contracts ...
Traditional and nontraditional contractors play an essential role in the Department of Defense’s experimentation program aimed at testing dual-use applications of fifth generation wireless communications technology at military installations. Joseph Evans, who recently stepped down as principal director for 5G at the Office of the Under Secreta...
Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) has received an 18-month, $134.1 million task order to deploy the company’s electronic health record platform at additional Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers, FedHealth IT reported Thursday. VA initially obligated $113 million for EHR Modernization Wave G deployment work. The health technology provider secure...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $172.7 million contract to operate and sustain airborne sensor equipment for the Missile Defense Agency. The company will continue to help MDA maintain systems, plan missions, conduct flight tests and modernize technologies of the agency’s High Altitude Observatory platform, ...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is integrating its U.S. federal team into the Azure engineering organization led by Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander as part of a reorganization to improve collaboration and better integrate platforms built for federal users into its cloud portfolio, ZDNET reported Wednesday. Rick Wagner, a 2021 Wash100 Award winn...
KBR (NSYE: KBR) has won a potential $416.3 million task order to provide expeditionary staging area services at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic issued the task order with a $72.8 million base value, plus 10 unexercised options, as part of a multiple-award U.S. Navy contract vehicl...
Two executives at Lockheed Martin and Cubic will moderate panel discussions of the fifth-generation wireless communications technology at a Sept. 16 virtual event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club. Dawna Morningstar, director of Lockheed’s Next Gen Solutions division, will join representatives from the Army, Air Force and Virginia Tech for t...
