A joint venture between Banner Quality Management Inc. and Peerless Technologies will continue to support information technology operations at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio under a five-year, $233.2 million contract. The BQMI-Peerless JV will perform IT work for the Cleveland-based agency center and the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility i...
The U.K. has ordered 14 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Chinook military helicopters from the U.S. through a 10-year, $2 billion foreign military sales transaction. The British defense ministry said Thursday it expects to receive extended-range H-47 aircraft beginning in 2026 and will add the new platform to an existing Chinook fleet at the Royal Air Force...
The State Department released a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $5 billion multiple-award blanket purchase agreement dubbed Access for information technology software and hardware upgrade support services, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The department’s office of information resource management plans to compete the Access BPA ...
The General Services Administration has asked industry for comments on plans to issue a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement as part of an acquisition strategy for enterprisewide cloud services. The BPA will enable federal, state and local government agencies to purchase and implement commercial software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-servic...
U.S. technology providers have formed an alliance that calls on Congress to authorize a $50 billion federal budget for research and manufacturing investments within the semiconductor industry. The Semiconductors in America Coalition said Tuesday it aims to drive the implementation of federal policies that support chip market growth and urged lawmake...
The General Services Administration plans to proceed with phased awards of the next iteration of the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services governmentwide contract to different groups of information technology vendors certified under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. GSA said Wednesday it informed offerors of the...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has received a $618 million task order from the General Services Administration to provide system engineering, research and development, prototyping, training and open-source intelligence capabilities needed for enhancing the cyber and intelligence technologies of the intelligence community. The professional services are in suppo...
Catherine Urban, formerly deputy chief financial officer of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, has been appointed to succeed Mark Hughes as CFO of ACT I. She will directly report to ACT I CEO Michael Niggel and will bring to the role decades of business operations and finance experience with oversight of the company’s program contro...
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) will provide initial funding for five pilot programs that the Digital Dollar Project intends to launch to explore potential use cases and future designs of a U.S. central bank digital currency. The pilot programs will analyze and identify functional and technical requirements, evaluate benefits and challenges, look at use cases...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit has received a $318 million contract to help the Transportation Security Administration deploy equipment for the security screening of checked passenger bags at airports managed by the federal government. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will expand the fielding of baggage screening platforms to aro...
