Peraton will help the U.S. Air Force analyze and address the safety risks of the branch’s intercontinental ballistic missile software under a potential 18-year, $360.4 million contract. The company will perform ICBM risk management support work as part of the Nuclear Safety Cross-Check Analysis and Nuclear Safety Analysis and Technical Evaluat...
The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit white papers as it seeks to develop and transition next-generation technologies into warfighting capabilities that could help the service achieve cyber superiority. The Air Force Research Laboratory expects the Capabilities for Cyber Advancement broad agency announcement to have a ceiling value of appr...
Bob Kwaja, an investment banking and finance professional in the government contracting industry, has been named chief financial officer of The Carlyle Group-backed Two Six Technologies. Kwaja will be responsible for helping drive the Arlington, Virginia-based company’s growth strategy within the government technology market, Two Six Technolog...
Noble Supply and Logistics has acquired Tactical and Survival Specialties, a special operations equipment provider to the military and government sectors, for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand product offerings that can support the Department of Defense mission. Noble said Wednesday the deal adds tailored logistics to the Boston-based comp...
The Department of the Interior is giving vendors until April 9 to submit offers for a potential five-year, $350 million contract for professional services intended to help the National Cancer Institute develop, implement and update biomedical research information technology platforms. DOI issued a request for proposals Tuesday for the biomedical IT,...
Italy-based aerospace and defense conglomerate Leonardo has announced the postponement of the initial public offering of its U.S. subsidiary due to unfavorable market conditions. Adverse market conditions prevented an adequate valuation of Leonardo DRS, the parent company said Wednesday. The conglomerate added that it will revisit the IPO once marke...
Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said a platform for military personnel to create AI tools achieved initial operating capability status, FedScoop reported Tuesday. He told attendees at a National Defense Industry Association-hosted event that JAIC...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $99.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to modify UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters for Saudi Arabia’s national guard. Sikorsky will provide 25 modified Black Hawks to fulfill a foreign military sales requirement, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The...
New York-based Investment advisory company MSD Partners has signed an agreement to become an investor in Woolpert to help drive the latter’s next phase of growth across the architectural, engineering and geospatial areas. Woolpert said Thursday that Long Point Capital will exit its investment in the Dayton, Ohio-based company as part of t...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) will continue engineered overhaul work on USS Columbus, a nuclear powered fast attack submarine in the U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles class. under the potential $194.5 million contract modification. HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia will receive nearly $191 million at the time of awar...
