GovConWire's Government Contracting News 5/10/2021

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) completed its $380 million acquisition of Gibbs & Cox two and a half months after it announced the cash transaction on Feb. 23 with the intention of combining the Arlington, Virginia-based ship design firm with the company’s maritime systems division. Gibbs & Cox will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leidos and help

The U.S. Air Force has named 33 awardees on a seven-year, $700 million contract vehicle to support minor construction projects at Joint Base Andrews and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Contractors will compete for task orders to build, repair and maintain infrastructure at the two Maryland-based military installations, the Department of Defense said Friday. Forty-three offers were

Jane Rathbun, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy for information warfare and enterprise services, and Office of Naval Research Global Executive Director Matt Farr will join a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Navy Forum on May 12. Rathbun concurrently serves as the Department of the Navy chief technology officer and acts

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has won a potential 10-year, $495 million contract to provide wide area network services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA intends to obligate a $250 million minimum guaranteed award amount through the first task order under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Defense Research Engineering Network contract, according to a SAM notice posted Wednesday.

A Capstone Partners report shows that mergers and acquisitions in defense electronics, space and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance markets reached over 70 transactions in 2020, exceeding the deal volume recorded in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The report attributed the year-over-year increase in deal activity to “watershed” transactions in the first quarter

The General Services Administration plans to proceed with phased awards of the next iteration of the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services governmentwide contract to different groups of information technology vendors certified under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. GSA said Wednesday it informed offerors of their inclusion in the 8(a) STARS III GWAC’s

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) missions systems business will modify the Knifefish unmanned undersea vehicle into the Block I configuration and provide engineering support services under a $72.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Friday General Dynamics Mission Systems is expected to finish retrofitting five UUVs, which were delivered to the

Richard Naylor, deputy assistant director of cyber operations at the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, will speak during GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum as part of an expert panel. Join the virtual event to hear from government and industry executives as they offer insight on how organizations can help safeguard national security systems and the

NASA has asked industry to submit feedback on a draft performance work statement for the Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test contract that will replace the Kennedy Space Center’s Test and Operations Support Contract. The proposed COMET contract will include management services for KSC’s launch infrastructure and ground processing support for NASA programs, according to

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $105.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to build and maintain XM813 Bushmaster chain guns for the U.S. Army’s Stryker infantry carrier vehicle weapons modernization program. The Army is procuring the new configuration of 30×173 mm caliber cannons, a derivative of Northrop’s Mk44 Bushmaster chain gun system,