Blue Origin has secured a position on the NASA Launch Services II contract vehicle as an “on-ramp” awardee, which provides Jeff Bezos' space venture an opportunity to compete for orders to help the agency deploy spacecraft using its New Glenn rocket....
KBR has received a five-year, $49 million task order to assist the U.S. Army's Cargo Helicopter Project Management Office in aircraft system acquisition and reliability improvement efforts. The company said Wednesday it aims to help the Army manage the availability and life cycle of the branch's CH-47 Chinooks....
South Korea's defense acquisition program administration expects to finalize an estimated $878M foreign military sales contract with the U.S. government to procure a dozen MH-60R Seahawk naval helicopters built by Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, Defense News reported Wednesday....
Amazon Web Services called on a judge in a redacted court filing to nullify the Department of Defense’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Nextgov reported Wednesday....
Arvind Krishna, CEO and a board member of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of the technology company, effective Jan. 1. He will succeed Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, who will retire by the end of December after a nearly 40-year career with IBM....
An ASRC Federal subsidiary will help NASA announce research opportunities, collect and review proposals and assist in the selection of applications for awards under the potential five-year, $212M Research and Education Support Services recompete contract. Huntsville, Alabama-based ASRC Federal Agile Decision Sciences will also provide information te...
Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services provider, and software development company Sevatec have merged to form a combined organization that will provide tech platforms and services to help federal government clients address complex IT challenges. Mehul Sanghani, founder and CEO of Octo, said the transaction creates ...
The chief security information officer for the Department of Defense acquisition and sustainment has begun to review the integration of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements into U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency contracts slated to be awarded late next year....
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has landed a five-year, $70M contract to help NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center integrate sensor technology onto unmanned aircraft. The company will perform engineering, production and technical services under the Global Hawk Skyrange program aimed at demonstrating an alternative approach to collect data with ...
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Space for Lockheed Martin, was presented with his 2020 Wash100 Award on Tuesday. Ambrose earned his fifth Wash100 Award for driving the company’s satellite capabilities as well as the nation’s upcoming lunar and space exploration missions. This marks the fifth Wash100 Award win for Ambrose and the four...
