By Kim Koster, vice president of industry marketing at Unanet For U.S. government contractors, all the current flurry of activity notwithstanding, the coming years promise a wealth of new business opportunities in areas like artificial intelligence, defense, cybersecurity and more. Now comes the real challenge: Ensuring your firm wins its ...
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has awarded contracts to four U.S. frontier artificial intelligence companies to advance the Department of Defense’s adoption of AI capabilities. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI were awarded contracts with a $200 million ceiling to develop agentic AI workflows for various mission are...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved SES’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Intelsat. FCC said Friday the approval of the proposed transaction builds on its efforts to promote the delivery of satellite services to the public. The commission added that it expects the planned deal to establish a “more vigorous multi-orbit...
The Department of State has approved Norway’s $2.6 billion Foreign Military Sale request for HH-60W helicopters and related equipment, with Sikorsky Aircraft as the principal contractor. Under the proposed sale, Norway could purchase up to nine HH-60W helicopters, 22 T-700-GE-401 turboshaft engines, 21 Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation Systems,...
MP Materials and the Department of Defense have entered into a public-private partnership to boost the supply of U.S. rare earth magnets and reduce dependence on foreign sources. Construction of ’10X’ Magnet Manufacturing Facility Through the partnership, MP Materials said Thursday it will build the “10X Facility,” its second domesti...
Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has received two Defense Logistics Agency contracts worth $419.5 million combined to provide spare parts and support services for H-60 and H-53 helicopters. Helicopter Spare Parts Contract Details The Department of Defense said Thursday the firm-fixed-price contracts have a five-year base term and an optio...
Summit 7 has welcomed Bill Wilshire as its new chief delivery officer, a strategic move that underscores the company’s focus on delivering exceptional results to clients in the areas of cybersecurity, compliance and managed services. Wilshire steps into the role with over 25 years of experience in IT services, security and managed solutions, Summi...
Naval Supply Systems Command has issued a solicitation to expand the current pool of vendors competing for task orders as part of the rolling admissions process for the follow-on Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract, or WEXMAC 2.1. According to a solicitation notice published Tuesday, NAVSUP launched the WEXMAC 2.1 rolling admissions proc...
Chugach Government Solutions, or CGS, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Ken Ackerman as vice president of human resources and Isaac Fawehinmi as vice president, controller. Virginia Robinson, interim president of CGS, said in a statement Tuesday that Ackerman and Fawehinmi bring to the company “a strong combi...
Over the last quarter century, Horace Blackman has firmly established himself in the government contracting world, performing duties on both the public and private sides of the industry to figure out how to make the biggest impact. He’s logged time at the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as Leidos, Lockheed Martin and Booz & Compan...
