Martin UAV and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) AAI Corp. subsidiary will compete for orders to provide non-developmental tactical unmanned aerial systems to the U.S. Army under a potential three-year, $99.5M contract. Eleven bids were submitted to Army Contracting Command for the firm-fixed-price contract, which runs through March 27, 2022, the Departme...
Marko Bourne, a 10-year veteran of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and former senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Administration, has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as senior vice president of disaster management. He brings 35 years of disaster response, mitigation, resilience and recovery program experience to his new position and will h...
The Institute for Defense Analyses, which currently operates three federally funded research and development centers, has received a potential $950.6M contract to provide various support services to the Department of Defense. Washington Headquarters Services awarded the contract covering research, analyses, test and evaluation support to the Office ...
CGI‘s (NYSE: GIB) federal arm has won a potential 10-year, $222.9M contract to build an electronic procurement system for the Department of the Navy. The Department of Defense said Wednesday CGI Federal will provide the ePS contract writing platform for the DON to manage contracting requirements for supplies, grants, services and construc...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will produce five extra large unmanned undersea vehicles for the U.S. Navy and provide associated support under a potential $274.4M contract. Chicago-based Boeing and Bethesda. Md.-based Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) were awarded design contracts in September 2017 as part of the first phase of the Orca XLUUV program. The service...
A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says the total U.S. Army budget request for fiscal year 2020 is approximately $182B. The service™s proposed FY 2020 budget includes $12.4B in research, development, test and evaluation funds, reflecting the service™s focus on eight Army Future Command™s cross functional t...
Global satellite communications firm Inmarsat has received a $3.4B takeover offer from a consortium of private equity firms and Canada-based pension funds, Bloomberg reported Monday. Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers™ Pension Plan Board made a $7.21-per-share bid for Inmarsat thro...
Mark Borkowski, assistant commissioner for the Office of Acquisition and chief acquisition officer and component acquisition executive of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will be featured as a panelist during the Potomac Officers Club™s 3rd Annual Border Protection Innovations and Technology Forum on March 28th at the 2941 Restaurant in Fall...
A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says the total U.S. Air Force budget request for fiscal year 2020 is roughly $205B, including $166B in “blue” funds and another $39B in “non-blue” funds. The service™s proposed FY 2020 budget seeks $46.1B in research, development, test and evaluation funds associated ...
KBR™s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm has won three task orders worth a combined $95.7M to provide engineering, cybersecurity and information technology services to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. The USAF Installation Contracting Agency issued the awards to KBRwyle through a contract vehicle managed by the Department of Defense Inf...
