The Department of Defense is working to finalize guidance meant to provide its contracting officials more flexibility when it comes to reimbursing companies facing the effects of higher prices, Federal News Network reported Thursday. William LaPlante, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at DOD, said the updated policy document could be av...
An industry team led by Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has received a potential five-year, $160 million blanket purchase agreement to continue delivering enterprise construction management services to the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Augur Consulting, JGMS Government Services, Crawford Consulting Services and Longeneck...
Marc Surette, a senior sales executive within the U.S. public sector, has joined Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) as regional vice president for the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and Foreign Service Institute, according to his LinkedIn post. Surette previously worked at UiPath (NYSE: PATH) as regional VP for DOD and was responsible for growing t...
The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded minority-owned construction firm Strongside Builders a $300 million single-award contract to provide facilities services to DIA within the continental U.S. The Virginia Contracting Activity in Washington, D.C. conducted a competitive acquisition for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and ...
Exiger, a software-as-a-service supply chain risk management company, has purchased Supply Dynamics for an undisclosed sum to combine their products to develop an end-to-end supply chain visibility and risk management capability through a single cloud-based enterprise platform. Exiger said Tuesday it will integrate SDX, PAC and ExplorerRX products o...
Huntsville, Alabama-based small business Five Stones Research Corp. has won a five-year, $266.4 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks to weapon systems. 5SRC will additionally support the Department of Defense in efforts to integrate cybersecurity data into the system architecture, secure cloud...
In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucrati...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace subsidiary has received a potential six-year, $176.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide support for a ground radio network infrastructure and related antenna subsystems used for military command-and-control communications. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qua...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded three companies positions on a potential 10-year, $533.5 million contract for sourcing military ground and aircraft support equipment. ATAP, Boneal and F3 Logistics were chosen to participate in the small business set-aside procurement vehicle, the Defense Department said Friday. The contract, which is expected to be f...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has secured a two-year, $182 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide a ground-based air defense system to Ukraine as part of a military aid package. The Department of Defense obligated the full amount to procure National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems using fiscal 2022 Ukraine Security A...
