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The General Services Administration plans to launch industry competitions in 2023 for the third iteration of the agency’s Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract and the follow-on to its One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services procurement vehicle. Alliant 3 will be a multiple-agency, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contrac...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun seeking information on potential sources of technical, analytics and program event assistance as DARPA plans to create a $1 billion multiple-award contract vehicle for these support services. A notice posted Monday on SAM.gov states that DARPA is looking to select up to 10 vendors through the p...
Paul Kurtz, chief cybersecurity adviser for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), said government agencies looking to have access to real-time operational intelligence to speed up threat detection and incident response and improve their cybersecurity posture should adopt automation and advance collaboration. “Agencies should have intelligence wo...
L3Harris Technologies‘ (NYSE: LHX) board of directors has approved a plan to repurchase another $3.0 billion of its common stock. The Melbourne, Florida-based defense technology supplier said Friday the additional stock re-acquisition will bring total buyback authorization for L3Harris to approximately $4.5 billion. Stockholders of record as o...
Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) foundry business has established an alliance to improve semiconductor design and production to meet the requirements of national security and government applications. Initial members of the U.S. Military, Aerospace and Government Alliance formed by Intel Foundry Services include Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS), Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS...
Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence, wrote a joint commentary with U.S. Navy veterans John Richardson and Michael Rogers urging organizations to start their efforts to migrate cybersecurity procedures to post-quantum cryptography. They warned that the “store now, decrypt later” technique could allow hackers to s...
The U.S. Air Force has initiated a market research to identify potential industry sources that could provide capabilities in support of the 16th Air Force’s cyber operations and information operations formal training unit under a potential five-year, $100 million contract. The service plans to award the Cyber Operation Formal Training Support III ...
Oracle‘s (NYSE: ORCL) Cerner subsidiary has secured a pair of task orders worth $956 million combined to continue to the deployment of an electronic health record system to Department of Veterans Affairs-run facilities, FedHealth IT reported Thursday. The report noted Cerner Government Services will perform waves K to O deployments under a 27-...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) received the most money through Department of Defense contracts during the government’s 2021 fiscal year, according to data from the Pentagon’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. The “Fiscal Year 2021 Defense Spending by State” report...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has booked a $1.99 billion order from NASA to manufacture Orion spacecraft for an additional three human space exploration missions under the Artemis program. The space agency placed the order under the $4.6 billion Orion Production and Operations Contract to procure vehicles for Artemis VI through VIII missions, Lockheed...
