WiseStaff has won a potential $118M contract from the U.S. Army to deploy nursing personnel to all Military Health System facilities located in the San Antonio metropolitan area. The company will recruit licensed vocational nurses and certified nursing assistants for the San Antonio MHS, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Army Health Contract...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential 11-year, $879M to help the U.S. Air Force maintain re-entry system and vehicle subsystems that support an intercontinental ballistic missile platform. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes maintenance, sustainment, developmental and production engineering, aging surveillance...
The U.S. Navy awarded contract modifications worth a combined $113.2M to seven companies to continue supporting maintenance efforts for surface combatant and amphibious vessels that are visiting or stationed at Naval Base San Diego. Contractors will help the service branch maintain, repair or modernize destroyers, cruisers, dock landing ships, amphi...
Ology Bioservices has secured a pair of contracts worth $135.4M combined from the Department of Defense to develop a medical countermeasure against biological threats and a technology platform for producing nucleic acids. The Alachua, Fla.-based biopharmaceutical company said Monday it will explore the use of monoclonal antibodies as a potential tre...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report on key takeaways from the testimonies of Department of Defense and Air Force officials at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing held Thursday. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 recipient, wrote in the report that the Senate hearin...
Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has secured a three-year, $201.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long lead parts and materials needed to produce lot 14 propulsion systems for the F-35 aircraft. The modification combines orders from the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department ...
The U.S. Army has selected four companies to compete for military logistics support task orders under a potential $82B contract vehicle over 10 years. Army Contracting Command received six bids for the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V through an online-based solicitation process, the Department of Defense said Friday. LOGCAP V has an initial o...
The Potomac Officers Club hosted the 2019 Data Management Forum on Wednesday to gather the GovCon leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss the challenges surrounding data management for federal agencies. Following an informative keynote address from Michael Conlin, chief data officer of the Department of Defense, an expert panel took t...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential 10-year, $14.31B contract to modernize weapons systems used on the U.S. Air Force’s B-1 Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress bomber platforms. The company will also modify, engineer, test and sustain the aircraft weapons in an effort to increase system lethality, responsiveness, supportabilit...
The American Council for Technology – Industry Advisory Council announced on Thursday that David M. Wennergren has been named chief executive officer, effective May 13th. Ellen Glover, former IAC Chair, led a search committee to recommend the best candidate for the position. Wennergren was selected from a large pool of candidates after an extr...
