The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have issued an interim rule prohibiting the use of TikTok by federal contractors. A Federal Register notice published Friday says the policy amends the Federal Acquisition Regulation to ban the video-sharing application or successor apps developed by ByteDance on certain equipment ...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary will manufacture 571 more Sidewinder infrared-tracking, short-range missiles under a $263.7 million production lot 23 contract modification for a U.S. Navy-led joint weapon procurement effort with the U.S. Air Force. The award to Raytheon Missiles & Defense represents exercised options for the suppl...
Valiant has booked a potential $1.4 billion task order to provide linguist and translation services to military personnel throughout the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility. Two U.S. Army commands jointly issued the task order, which includes supplementary support work in the continental U.S., under the Department of Defense Language...
The U.S. Army has selected 29 small businesses to compete for information management communication service orders under a five-year, $900 million contract vehicle. Army Contracting Command received 31 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online-based solicitation, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. IMCS providers will suppor...
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman was presented with his 2023 Wash100 Award last week at the Potomac Officers Club’s 4th Annual CIO Summit after delivering an insightful and inspiring opening keynote address. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson joined Sherman on stage to deliver the prestigious accolade and congratul...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet When an executive from a government contracting firm reaches out to me, seeking ideas about how they can distinguish themselves from the crowd to win more project business, oftentimes I’ll point them to the practice of earned value management and the systems that support it. EVM...
Multi-cloud has been touted by Pentagon leaders as the future of defense and the foundation of widespread technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Cloud is inextricably intertwined with software modernization, JADC2, zero trust and a myriad of other top DOD priorities and programs. With the DOD’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capabil...
BAE Systems has received a $463.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to maintain 155 mm lightweight towed howitzers for domestic and foreign military customers. The firm-fixed-price award covers the provision of catalog parts and manpower services to support the life cycle sustainment of the U.S. and Australian M777A2 howitzer fleet and Canada̵...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will support the research and development of a soldier-as-a-system concept for Department of Defense mission partners under a potential $919 million task order. The company said Tuesday it aims to identify, mature and transition warfighter systems through the Engineering, Development, Integration and Technology-based ...
The Department of Defense has been working on creating a Defense Industrial Base cybersecurity strategy that is expected to be released by the end of the year, according to DOD Acting Principal Deputy CIO David McKeown, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner. “If you’ve done business with us, you know that there’s a variety of folks withi...
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