New capabilities brought about by the digital revolution have transformed the way the Department of Defense approaches data and connectivity. While the department has already embarked on its journey to strengthen U.S. cyber capabilities, there are still steps that must be taken to ensure that data is secure at all levels. Though technology itse...
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has been divisive throughout its creation over the last decade-plus, but especially since its implementation in 2017 as a requirement for defense industrial base organizations. As part of the initiative, contracting companies working with the Department of Defense must have their cyber protection system...
Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Noble Supply and Logistics a $562.5 million contract modification to continue to provide maintenance, repair and operation support at various U.S. military facilities overseas. The modification exercises the first option year of a previously awarded four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract f...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $45.4 million award from the Army Contracting Command to conduct analytics and systems support for an information technology architecture that U.S. and allied nations use to exchange intelligence data. The company will support the Cross-Domain Enterprise All-Source User Repository under the cost-plus-...
V2X (NYSE: VVX) has won a potential $324.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide base operations support services at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast in Jacksonville, Florida, received two offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defens...
GovCon industry executives Koren Odermann and Mary Shambora have joined the leadership team of Client Solution Architects as vice presidents to help CSA advance growth initiatives and expand the company’s presence in existing and new markets, GovCon Wire has learned. Odermann will serve as VP of business development for the Army and other agen...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) reported $9.9 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2023, up 5.2 percent from the prior-year period, and ended the quarter with a total backlog of $89.8 billion, of which $77.1 billion was funded. The Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor said Wednesday the companywide backlog represented a 3 percent increase...
Derrick Pledger, a senior vice president and chief information officer at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies seeking to drive digital modernization efforts to improve operations and address mission challenges should look for a vendor that is focused on building deep technical partnerships to develop new platforms and capabilities for agen...
ASRC Federal has acquired Manassas, Virginia-headquartered Broadleaf as part of government portfolio and market expansion efforts. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and ASRC Federal said Monday the company gains 600 employees who provide support to the U.S. Army, Navy and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. “Th...
