Science and Engineering Services, an Alabama-based aviation systems integrator, has won a potential $259.6 million contract from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to build multirole enforcement aircraft for use in land interdiction operations. SES will supply up to nine MEA LI planes under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded six companies separate contracts under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program to provide insight into radio frequency remote sensing capabilities. Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global and Umbra Lab will conduct studies to inform the acquisition and integration of comme...
The Department of Homeland Security has chosen three vendors for its $43.16 million multi-award contract to assess crowdsourced vulnerabilities across DHS’ information technology assets. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov lists Bugcrowd, Synack and SecureSoft Technologies as the companies holding positions on the indefinite-delivery/indefini...
The Cyber AB, which functions as an accreditation body for the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, has established a subsidiary to manage the development of training and certification programs for professionals within the CMMC ecosystem. The Cybersecurity Assessor and Instructor Certification Organization wi...
SkyWater Technology (Nasdaq: SKYT) has secured $99 million in additional funds from the Department of Defense to productize and qualify a process for manufacturing 90-nanometer electronics designed to withstand harsh radiation environments. The award follows a $170 million DOD investment announced three years ago to add a radiation-hardened semicond...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $158 million contract for the second early operational capability production of the U.S. Army’s new surface-to-surface missile system. The new order came after the service branch completed its manufacturing readiness assessment of the Precision Strike Missiles program, Lockheed said Tuesday. The Army o...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering OUSD(R&E) at the Department of Defense (DoD), recently accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest annual honor bestowed to the highest members of the government contracting (GovCon) community, during a visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Executive Mosaic is thrilled to recog...
Heidi Hendrix, a former human resources executive at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s space subsidiary as chief people officer. She will directly report to Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice and oversee efforts to build a team of professionals through the company’s facilities in Louisville, Colorado, the spacecraft a...
Inadev has landed a $107 million contract with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to support a process automation project under the agency’s unit responsible for detecting identity theft cases. The company said Tuesday it will help USCIS implement open source artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for the Fraud In...
Engineering consulting company ERC has secured a potential five-year, $145 million contract that covers laboratory support services and operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Under the LASSO II award, ERC will operate and maintain developmental shops, laboratories and test facilities that support the KSC Center Engineering, Safety and Oper...
