Public policy think tank RAND Corp. has secured a nine-year, $184.2 million contract to perform research and analysis work for the U.S. Army. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract via the internet and will determine funds and work locations upon issuance of individual orders, the Department of Defense sai...
CTI has secured a five-year, $188M contract under the General Services Administration’s Small Business Innovation Research program to integrate technologies into manned, unmanned and cloud platforms intended for the military. The McLean, Virginia-based company said Tuesday it will perform software development and engineering work as part of th...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Cybersecurity in National Security Summit on Tuesday to provide a platform for the members of the federal government, industry and the government contracting (GovCon) community to discuss the major initiatives bolstering the DOD’s cybersecurity as well as the opportunities for private industry to support the federal g...
Seven companies have landed spots on a potential seven-year, $169.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support information technology, command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems at Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform engineering, modeling and simulation, technolo...
The State Department has approved the request of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to continue receiving maintenance support services and related equipment for its helicopter fleet under a potential $500 million foreign military sale transaction. The MSS contract supports the AH-64D/E, UH-60L, UH-60M, Schweizer 333 and Bell 406CS helicopters deployed by t...
An Amentum-led industry team will create a synthetic training environment prototype for the U.S. Army under an other transaction agreement from the service branch’s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation. Amentum said Tuesday it teamed up with FN America, Cole Engineering Systems, Cornet Technologies and SoarTech...
Shareholders at U.K.-based aerospace company Meggitt voted to approve the acquisition offer from Parker Hannifin (NYSE: PH), a Cleveland-based provider of motion and control technologies for the aerospace and industrial markets. The transaction is expected to be completed in the third quarter of calendar year 2022, subject to regulatory clearances, ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has secured a $600 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop an engine system for spacecraft to be used in NASA’s lunar exploration program. The company will help NASA integrate the Orion Main Engine into the primary power and propulsion module of the exploratory vehicle to replace a re...
Several leaders from the government and GovCon community will participate in GovCon Wire’s virtual event Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern time to discuss cybersecurity issues in the national security mission. Puesh Kumar, acting principal deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergen...
Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) will research how 5G networks could support warfighters on the battlefield under two contracts the Department of Defense awarded through the Information Warfare Research Project. The company said Monday it will examine how 5G connectivity could help improve command and control applications and services and will explore how 5G n...
