The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a $1.5 billion contract to establish a domestic uranium enrichment capability to provide nuclear fuel for defense requirements. DUECE Pilot Plant Under the contract, BWXT said Tuesday it will initiate requirements to construct the Domestic Uranium ...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is more than a compliance checklist. It is, in my view, a strategic transformation designed to strengthen the entire defense industrial base against today’s and tomorrow’s cyber adversaries. What...
Hitachi Vantara Federal has appointed Majed Saadi, a tech and growth executive, as chief technology officer. Saadi announced his move to Hitachi Vantara Federal in a LinkedIn post published Monday. He brings to the role over two decades of leadership experience in IT transformation, strategy development and consulting, as well as expertise in IT ser...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a request for proposal for the National Weather Service Commercial Data Program, or National Mesonet Program. National Mesonet Program Contract Scope According to the solicitation notice posted on SAM.gov Wednesday, the NOAA seeks contractors that can provide meteorological, hydrolo...
General Dynamics Information Technology has named Melissa Frye, a 14-year GDIT veteran, vice president of program. “From starting in Contracts, making the leap to Ops, and now VP — my journey proves that with grit, mission focus, and treating people right, anything is possible,” Frye said in a LinkedIn post announcing her new role. Who...
The General Services Administration has released the lists of apparent awardees under the rolling awards process for the Unrestricted, Total Small Business and three socioeconomic small business set-aside tracks of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus, or OASIS+, contract program. In separate notices published Tuesday on SAM.gov...
While the AI boom seemingly began in Silicon Valley with OpenAI’s ChatGPT three years ago, 2025 has been proof that China is highly competitive in the artificial intelligence field — if not the frontrunner. The Eastern superpower is building its own open-source AI programs that have demonstrated high performance as they put ubiquity and eff...
The Pentagon has issued the final Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, or DFARS, rule implementing the contractual requirements of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, program. The Department of War said Tuesday the final DFARS rule, or 48 CFR, seeks to ensure that contractors properly safeguard federal contract inf...
The Transportation Security Administration has outlined two upcoming contract opportunities with a combined value of more than $150 million. Both efforts, published Friday in the Department of Homeland Security’s Acquisition Planning Forecast System, aim to strengthen the agency’s enterprise technology and operational support environment...
NASA has begun seeking industry feedback on a draft announcement for partnership proposals, or AFPP, for the second phase of its strategy to support industry’s design and demonstration of commercial space stations through multiple funded Space Act Agreements, or SSA. The space agency said Friday it will hold an industry day on Monday, Sept. 8,...
