Assured Information Security has won a potential seven-year, $93.6M contract to develop software baselines for the U.S. Air Force’s Virtualized Intelligence Platform Engineering and Research program. AIS will help the Air Force Research Laboratory prototype, integrate, test, demonstrate, update, deploy and sustain VIPER tools as part of the in...
Gulf Island Shipyards has been awarded $128.5M in contract options to build two towing, salvage and rescue ships for the U.S. Navy. Naval Sea Systems Command will use fiscal 2016, 2018 and 2019 shipbuilding funds to cover the full obligated amount for the shipbuilding projects, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The company aims to...
Anthony Robbins, vice president for the North American public sector at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), has said the federal government should make contributions across data, computing infrastructure and training areas in order to harness the potential of artificial intelligence. Robbins wrote the U.S. government should train engineers in data science a...
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has acquired a General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business that offered a 9-1-1 emergency communications system to state and local government clients. Comtech said Monday it added 60 employees as a result of the Next Generation 911 acquisition from General Dynamics’ information technology segment and secured ...
A new report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says Boeing™s (NYSE: GD) defense, space and security business recorded $6.6B in sales for the first quarter of 2029, reflecting a 2 percent rise from the prior year period. Jim McAleese, founder and principal of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote the BDS segm...
Stephanie Bidstrup, principal of the digital health practice at Booz Allen Hamilton™s (NYSE: BAH) civilian government unit, has been promoted to vice president of the company, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. In her new capacity, Bidstrup will oversee the development of information technology, telehealth and virtual care offerings for U.S. milita...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory received a $2.03B contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop technology platforms for the Department of Defense. The modification brings the total value of a previously awarded contract to $9.6B and covers long-term tech R&D, rapid prototyping and demonstrati...
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $723.5M contract modification to provide multiple variants of the Hellfire II missile system. Lockheed will deliver missiles to domestic and foreign military sales customers that include Lebanon, Netherlands and France, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Hellfire II uses a semi-activ...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has won a potential five-year, $158.8M contract to provide mission support services to a U.S. Army combat training facility located in Hohenfels, Germany. The service branch announced the contract award in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday. Work covers up to 305 days of support every year for critical tasks during brigade-leve...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has landed a $89M contract to help the U.S. Navy install mission equipment and external stores on EA-18G and F/A-18E/F aircraft platforms. The military service will obligate $482,841 in fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Work under th...
