Guam-based Black Micro Corp. has booked a potential $225.7 million contract to conduct four construction activities at Tinian International Airport in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, with the U.S. Air Force obligating $221.7 million at the time of award. The projects involve building a cargo pad with taxiway extension, fuel t...
By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek In March, the Office of Management and Budget officially released the Biden Administration’s initial fiscal year 2024 discretionary budget request. This initial budget proposal includes a total of approximately $1.8 trillion in top-line discretionary budget requests fo...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $313.4 million contract modification to perform additional support services for the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornet service life extension program. The company will perform engineering work to extend the F/A-18 E/F’s active life by 4,000 flight hours to 10,000 and equip the aircraft with Block III avionics confi...
The State Department has approved a potential $259 million foreign military sale deal involving the modernization of Turkey’s F-16 avionics system. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will be the prime contractor for the agreement, which is part of efforts by the Turkish government to maintain fighter aircraft safety and interoperability with NATO for...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks is a top voice in cybersecurity and government technology usage at large. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University focusing on risk management, homeland security technologies and, of course, cybersecurity and has won a number of distinctions over the years. Brooks recently interviewed Kelley Kiernan, t...
Global Ordnance‘ military products division will provide ammunition to the U.S. Army under a $431 million firm-fixed-price contract. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the procurement effort and will determine the funds upon issuance of individual orders, the Defense Department said Friday. DOD expects contract work to be complete ...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business will move to boost the production capacity for F-35 Block 4 jets after the Naval Air Systems Command awarded a $172.1 million order modification under a basic ordering agreement. The company will use the money to obtain special test and tooling equipment and kits to support Next Gen Distribute...
The Air Force Material Command has awarded 10 companies a multi-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $300 million to maintain buildings or infrastructure assets at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. Under the five-year contract, contractors will compete to perform maintenance, repair, reconstruction and remediation serv...
KPMG has won a potential five-year, $82.4 million blanket purchase agreement to support the Defense Logistics Agency’s financial improvement and audit readiness efforts. DLA’s contracting services office received four responses to the competitive acquisition for the firm-fixed-price agreement under a multiple-award contract vehicle, the ...
In the digital age, cybersecurity has been pushed to the forefront of organizations’ priorities. Today, cybersecurity is a paramount issue for the United States’ critical infrastructure as growing cyber attacks continue to threaten some of the most important foundational systems in our country. Healthcare organizations, for instance, are tasked ...
