BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has received a $140.3M contract modification to build 30 amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. The modification exercises options under a previously awarded contract and includes fielding, support and associated production services, the Department of Defense said Thursday....
Riptide Software has won a potential six-year, $103.2M contract to help the U.S. Army update a computer generated forces technology designed to simulate missions, control processes and systems from an individual military platform and combatant. Army Contracting Command received three bids for the One Semi-Automated Forces support program and th...
Jerry Hathaway, a more than two-decade veteran of Leonardo DRS, has been appointed vice president and general manager of the electro-optical and infrared business at the Arlington, Va.-based defense technology contractor. The company said Wednesday Hathaway most recently held similar roles within its land electronics and network compu...
Six companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $200M contract to build, renovate or repair heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems at multiple U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps installations. The Defense Department said Tuesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains two base years, followed by th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 4, 2018 ” IAP Worldwide Services will provide maintenance and logistics services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s E-6B Mercury command-and-control aircraft under a potential $76.8M contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercis...
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...
