Australia expects to receive its first UH-60M Black Hawk aircraft made by Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary within the year as part of an approximately $1.95 billion foreign military sale agreement with the U.S. The Australian defense ministry said Wednesday its army will be provided with 40 multimission military helicopters, which...
Lisa Porter, former deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, has joined the board of directors of Fortress Information Security. She brings to the board over two decades of leadership experience in the defense industry, Fortress said Tuesday. “With Dr. Porter aboard, Fortress will expand its next-generation supply chain s...
The General Services Administration has included a self-scoring requirement for sustainability-related disclosures as an amendment to a draft request for proposals for the third iteration of the Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology platforms and services. The amendment calls for public disclosure of greenhouse...
By Alan Chvotkin One of the last legislative actions taken at the close of the 117th Congress was passage by the House of Representatives of the “Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act” on Dec. 14, 2022. The president signed that bill into law on Dec. 27, 2022. Its enactment marks the end...
NASA and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have agreed to jointly develop and test systems that can support the use of unmanned aircraft systems in air cargo operations and the rest of the country’s airspace. The collaboration falls under the Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles subproject under NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXpl...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will compete for task orders to engineer systems and perform technical work for the Federal Aviation Administration through the company’s prime position on a potential 10-year, $2.3 billion contract vehicle. The FAA’s Systems Engineering and Technical Innovative Solutions program cons...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected in a unanimous ruling the Biden administration’s mandate that requires COVID-19 vaccination and face masks for employees working on federal contracts, Bloomberg Law reported Friday. A panel of three judges from the federal appeals court in Ohio ruled that the U.S. president lacks the statuto...
Six companies have landed spots on a potential three-year, $45 million contract to help the Defense Logistics Agency deliver medical cargo to government mission locations outside the continental U.S. DLA solicited offers to the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for medical freight transportation services among participants in the Depa...
The Department of Energy has awarded KBC Energy Solutions a $122 million contract to help the National Energy Technology Laboratory manage programs and projects. DOE announced the award of the Mission Execution Support Services contract in a notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov. Boston-based KBC Energy will perform administrative and technical work to...
Digital Intelligence Systems has completed its acquisition of LinTech Global in a transaction that expands its portfolio of staffing and information technology offerings for defense and federal civilian agency customers. Mahfuz Ahmed, founder and CEO of DISYS, said in a statement published Tuesday LinTech’s experience and knowledge in the federal ...
