NASA is looking to procure communications and navigation services from the private sector in support of crewed and robotic spacecraft operations that extend as far as 2 million kilometers from Earth’s surface. The agency released a draft solicitation notice Wednesday asking potential offerors for comment on its draft solicitation for Near Spac...
The General Services Administration has reissued a request for proposals for the small business pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services after integrating changes to submission requirements for relevant experience concerning mentor-protege arrangements and joint ventures. The updated RF...
Austal’s U.S. ship manufacturing division will design and build offshore patrol cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard under a potential $3.3 billion contract. USCG plans to procure up to 11 Heritage-class ships that will replace the service branch’s aging fleet of endurance cutters and support various national security missions in coastal areas and o...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential five-year, $307.1 million contract from the U.S. Army to repair and recertify its Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3 missiles. U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama is the contracting activity and obligated at the time of award $150.4 mi...
Bechtel has received a $759.1 million contract modification to help the U.S. Army shut down a facility that was earlier built within its Pueblo Chemical Depot to handle the safe and secure destruction of chemical weapons. Work in support of the closure of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado will run through March...
Roela Santos Amentum has appointed GovCon industry veterans Roela Santos and Sean Mullen to its senior leadership team. Santos is senior vice president of marketing and communications with oversight of public relations, brand-building, corporate social responsibility, employee engagement, crisis communications, reputation management and market influ...
Eight members of the independent slate led by Eileen Drake, CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), were elected to the company’s board to serve as directors during the special meeting of shareholders. The slate, including four existing board members, received over 70 percent of the votes cast based on preliminary results and Drake secured the...
Booz Allen Hamilton has received pushback from the U.S. Department of Justice on its March agreement to purchase data science, intelligence and cybersecurity contracting company EverWatch Corp. In the form of a civil antitrust lawsuit made public on Wednesday, the DOJ is asserting that the acquisition violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Sectio...
Jim Brinker, president and general manager of Intel Federal and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He remarked on the latest technology trends impacting government agencies. The Q&A also focused on the executive’s latest growth objectives the company’s other initi...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $429.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to maintain and modernize its Black Hawk multirole helicopters. Sikorsky will conduct maintenance and overhaul work in support of the service branch’s UH-60 Black Hawk utility aircraft through June 28, 2027, the Department of ...
