NASA has launched a full and open competition for interested vendors to design and build a single-channel, near-infrared optical detector for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite system. The space agency intends to award a 15-year cost-plus-award-fee contract for the development of...
Each year, the federal government allocates substantial funding toward defense and security contracts. Government agencies, such as the Department of Defense and the US Armed Forces, tap into the expertise of multiple companies dedicated to developing and providing cutting-edge solutions for defense and warfare initiatives across various domains, su...
Alex Barbato, public sector solutions engineer at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies looking to implement DevSecOps methodologies to advance technology modernization efforts should ensure that development, security and operations teams are aligned by enabling them to have a mindset to work together to deliver on an outcome and achieve miss...
The State Department has released a solicitation for a five-year, $650 million contract vehicle to procure support services for its Global Antiterrorism Training Assistance program. GATA III is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract recompete of foreign law enforcement training services and has one-year base period along with four optio...
The government contracting industry’s confidence in its future revenues has recovered from a COVID-19-prompted dip. The market’s assurance in its ability to drive new business has increased by 1.6 percent from a year ago, returning what’s known as the GovCon Confidence Index, or GCCI, to pre-pandemic levels. GCCI is measured by Deltek’s Cl...
Brooke Smith, former vice president of business development and strategy at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named CEO of Deep Water Point & Associates. He succeeds Howard Seeger, Deep Water Point’s founder who has led the federal management consulting services provider for nearly 19 years, the company said Monday. While at Salesforce, Smi...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured an $81 million contract modification to continue supporting a joint initiative between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force to build a hypersonic air-breathing weapon system. The modification brings the total cumulative value of the company’s HAWC contract from $272 million to $...
Mike Cosgrave, a former partner at Guidehouse, was appointed chief operating officer at Tria Federal, where he will oversee the information technology and advisory services provider’s administrative and operational functions. The management and technology executive with 25 years of experience previously held the same position at IT and service...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will continue providing the U.S. Navy with AN/SQQ-89A (V) 15 anti-submarine warfare systems, spares and support services under a $100 million contract modification. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business was contracted for work on Hypervisor Technology Zero AN/SQQ-89A ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started a program that aims to make microelectronic technology more resistant to the effects of radiation in a space environment by implementing a testing system for 3D heterogeneously integrated chips. DARPA said Thursday the Advanced Sources for Single-event Effects Radiation Testing effort will pu...
