The U.S. Army has released a solicitation for administration and maintenance services in support of supercomputers at several Department of Defense centers that provide hardware, software, data storage and other resources to a High Performance Computing computational environment. According to the SAM.gov notice posted Thursday, the Army Corps of Eng...
Systems Planning and Analysis has won a potential $185 million contract to advise the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on scientific and technical matters. The Alexandria, Virginia-based company will provide assistance to DTRA’s research and development work on defense measures against improvised threats and weapons of mass destruction, the Dep...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential 18-year, $3.86 billion contract to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the ground subsystems of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system. The AF Nuclear Weapons Center received two offers for the program covering software maintenance, system engineering, test and assessment, modificatio...
A Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) business unit has won a potential $75.8 million Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 6 contract to help Department of Defense mission partners connect to DOD’s global military information network. Comcast’s government services group will replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits with new ethernet connections in t...
John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said the recently announced replacement to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contracting program is planned to leverage direct awards to multiple vendors of enterprise cloud services, DOD News reported Wednesday. The initial awards under the Joint Warfightin...
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has received a five-year, $600.2 million contract to provide support to the U.S. Army’s next generation of armored vehicles meant for integration with the Armored Brigade Combat Team in the future. The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, along with the M113 family of vehicles that AMPV is intended to r...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to help the Federal Aviation Administration operate, maintain and update digital air traffic control systems under a five-year, $223 million contract. The company said June 30 it will also update applications for the FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System being used by ATC tower pe...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has agreed to buy Alion Science and Technology from Veritas Capital for approximately $1.65 billion in cash as part of a push to expand its technical capabilities and portfolio of national security platforms. HII said Tuesday it expects the transaction to conclude in the second half of 2021 and help...
The Department of Defense decided to end the prolonged court battle over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program by dropping the JEDI cloud contract and announced plans to launch a new procurement effort to meet its cloud computing requirements. DOD said Tuesday the decision was due to a more mature cloud conversancy, industry advancemen...
The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a potential $4.79 billion contract vehicle for services related to research, development and sustainment of hardware and software capabilities to support the intelligence production requirements of the military branch, Department of Defense and intelligence community. The NOVASTAR indefinit...
