Lockheed Martin has secured a $12.53 billion contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce and deliver F-35 aircraft units for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, international partners and foreign military sales customers. The award covers the definitization of 148 Lot 18 aircraft and expands the scope for the production and delivery of 148...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The clock is ticking for defense industrial base contractors because the Department of Defense begins enforcing Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements across new solicitations and contracts on November 10. For the estimated 80,000 contractors handling controlled unclassified inf...
Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has ordered U.S. generals and admirals from across the globe to convene for an urgent meeting on Tuesday morning at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “The Secretary of War will be addressing his senior...
Sabre Systems has won a U.S. Navy contract worth approximately $199.9 million to provide IT modernization, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence, cloud, enterprise management, transformation planning and other digital support services. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Patuxent River...
MANTECH has secured a potential seven-year, $910 million task order to provide enterprise-level cyber and data-informed IT services for U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, and mission partners. The company said Thursday the General Services Administration awarded the task order. “Always advancing the capabilities of our warfighters and deliver...
Scale AI has secured an other transaction authority agreement from the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office for the delivery of advanced AI tools to warfighters. The five-year deal is valued at $100 million, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company said Wednesday. AI for Defense Applications Under...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is more than a compliance checklist. It is, in my view, a strategic transformation designed to strengthen the entire defense industrial base against today’s and tomorrow’s cyber adversaries. What...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman the potential $972 million firm-fixed-price, time and materials Air Force Modeling and Simulation support services, or AFMS3, contract. Air Force Modeling and Simulation Contract Scope The Department of Defense said Monday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers maintenanc...
The Pentagon has issued the final Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, or DFARS, rule implementing the contractual requirements of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, program. The Department of War said Tuesday the final DFARS rule, or 48 CFR, seeks to ensure that contractors properly safeguard federal contract inf...
CONTENT JR Morell has been appointed vice president of federal sales at mission artificial intelligence company Virtualitics. The executive announced his appointment on LinkedIn Friday. “Excited to step into my new role as vice president of federal sales at Virtualitics, where mission AI agents and our AI readiness platform are revol...
