The U.S. Marine Corps has started soliciting industry input for a potential $550 million enterprise commercial satellite services, or MECS2, contract. MECS2 Contract Scope According to the request for proposal issued on SAM.gov Tuesday, the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the procurement of transpon...
We last spoke to Davidson Technologies’ James Parys at our sister publication ExecutiveBiz about a year ago and the conversation centered around Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control. Though Parys has transitioned to a new company since then, his faith in the capabilities of advanced technologies and how they can enable Depar...
Nineteen vendors have won positions on a 10-year, $2.5 billion U.S. Air Force contract to provide construction, repair and maintenance support for the Department of Defense’s petroleum, oil and lubricant, or POL, facilities. DOD said Wednesday the military branch received 23 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract throu...
Flank Speed was one of the U.S. Navy’s top IT modernization priorities and the service’s CIO is applying lessons from its implementation to another critical modernization effort. What Is Flank Speed? Flank Speed is a unique U.S. Navy enterprise system for daily work, providing a secure ecosystem for working with colleagues, cloud computi...
There’s one name that every person in government and industry alike can’t stop saying this year: the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. The newly formed agency, which is meant to reduce waste and excise programs and initiatives across the federal landscape that it deems unnecessary, has big implications for the GovCon ma...
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics landed a potential $238 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the purchase of long lead materials, parts, components and related support services for F-35 aircraft production. Contract Scope The Department of Defense said Monday the new deal is an undefinitized modification to a fixed-price incentive contra...
Gary Wang has led a storied and accomplished government contracting career. He began his IT journey at the start of the new millennium and logged nearly a decade at Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions business unit. At Lockheed, he began as chief engineer, evolved into senior program manager and eventually became direc...
The Aerospace Corp. has elected former Department of Defense officials William LaPlante and Frank Calvelli to the board of trustees. “Outpacing the threats our nation faces in space will require a heightened focus on rapid acquisition and deployment and on ensuring critical capabilities connect end-to-end,” Steve Isakowitz, president and...
David Flowers announced on LinkedIn Thursday that he has been appointed vice president of business development at LinTech Global, a Dexian company. The new LinTech executive brings extensive experience in program management and government contracting to his new VP role. Flowers served in the defense and space industry, where he held v...
KBR has secured an estimated $229 million recompete task order to provide life cycle research and analysis for the U.S. Army Cargo Helicopter Systems. The company said Tuesday the task order falls under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center’s, or DODIAC, multiple-award contract, or MAC, vehicle. Task Order Details Under the DOD...
