A new McAleese & Associates report says several government and military leaders discussed some of the Pentagon™s technology priorities at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, talked about cybersecurity and the need for strong cyber defenses to counter ...
Niels Jensen, senior vice president of Americas sales at ForeScout Technologies (Nasdaq: FSCT), has said federal agencies should have visibility of their internet-of-things-based devices in order to protect their network infrastructure from cyber threats. He wrote that information technology administrators at agencies should deploy tools designed to...
The U.S. Navy has awarded spots on a potential 10-year, $50B contract vehicle to 1,870 businesses for project management and engineering support services. Each contractor has an opportunity to compete for individual task orders across 23 functional areas under the SeaPort Next Generation indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, th...
BAE Systems has secured positions on two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth more than $151M combined to integrate and sustain command, control, communications, computers, combat, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems for the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday it will offer life cycle sustainment su...
The U.S. Army has selected four small businesses to provide information technology services to the branch’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center under a potential five-year, $72M contract. Army Contracting Command received seven bids for the firm-fixed-price contract that will run through Nov. 8, 2023, the Defen...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 10 companies positions on a potential $962M multiple-award contract to provide cyber mission engineering and information warfare support services across air, ground, maritime, cyber and space domains. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a five-year base term worth approximately $898M and extension optio...
Vertex Aerospace has won a one-year, $97.5M contract from the U.S. Air Force to manage and sustain the base supply of T-1A Jayhawk trainers for the Air Education and Training Command. The company will support 178 T-1As stationed at air bases in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi as well as at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida through&nbs...
A Bechtel subsidiary has landed three contracts potentially worth $1.76B combined to supply nuclear propulsion components for installation in U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers. Naval Sea Systems Command will provide $1.34B in fiscal 2019 shipbuilding, conversion and “other” procurement funds at the time of award t...
Five companies will compete for task orders to help the U.S. Navy‘s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery manage financial and business operations under a potential four-year, $83.8M contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract’s ordering period is scheduled to commence in February 2019 and will continue through January 2...
United Technologies Corp.‘s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a one-year, $399.8M contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command to provide sustainment services for the F-35 aircraft propulsion technology. Pratt & Whitney’s military engines division will continue to sustain F135 propuls...
