Federal civilian and defense agencies collectively increased annual contract spending by $70 billion to $665 billion during fiscal year 2020, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. GAO found that agencies spent $35 billion to buy medical supplies and pharmaceutical products in FY 2020 as part of COVID-19 response efforts. The...
Blake Nelson, who led defense and civilian programs at service management company Pragmatics, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as vice president responsible for the management of cloud platforms and services in support of the company’s digital transformation business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. As SAIC...
Twelve companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $68 million contract to help the U.S. Navy engineer networks and systems that support net-centric military operations. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform engineering and technical work on the service branch’s afloat, ashore and airborne networks through the multip...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Comcast’s (Nasdaq: CMCSA) government services business a potential 10-year, $71.6 million contract to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and connect mission partners to the Department of Defense Information Network as part of work in Region 5 of the Commercial Ethernet Gateway program. The...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a five-year, $194.3 million task order to help U.S. Air Force researchers analyze and verify the integrity of very small electronic devices. The company said Thursday it will provide best practices for designing digital and analog systems and develop methods to detect counterfeit microelectronic products as part of the S...
The new Peraton company has secured a potential $443.8 million contract to provide information technology platforms and support services to U.S. Strategic Command. The U.S. Air Force formally awarded the Stratcom IT Capabilities contract to HP Enterprise Services, a legacy Herndon, Virginia-based contractor whose series of merger deals led to the fo...
U.S. Transportation Command has issued a two-year, $152.6M contract modification through which 11 companies will provide multimodal transportation services within and outside the continental U.S. The contractors will perform doorstep deliveries, process customs clearances, facilitate data exchanges and clear containerized and breakbulk cargo under t...
RQ Construction will conduct design and construction work as part of a potential $225.6 million task order awarded under a U.S. Navy contract that provides for services in support of the Michelson Laboratory building at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California. The contractor will build an industrial shop and environmental and chemistry la...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $344.4 million sole-source contract to update MK-15 close-in weapon systems for the U.S. Navy and South Korea. The company’s missiles and defense business will modernize the radar-guided gun systems and provide associate hardware to customers as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, th...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential six-year, $950 million contract to provide infrastructure, supporting tools and services for the military branch’s threat radar systems and combat training ranges. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received 20 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
