GovConWire's Government Contracting News 5/19/2021

Valiant Integrated Services has secured a potential $555 million contract to help U.S. Army National Guard units gain operational readiness skills through an instrumented field training program. The company said Tuesday it will aim to prepare 27 brigade combat teams for service requirements under the eXportable Combat Training Capability program. XCTC exercises include soldier preparations

An ASRC Federal subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $217 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to support DISA’s Unified Cyber Situational Awareness program. ASRC Communications will provide cyber, cloud and other information technology support and professional services to DISA as part of the UCSA program and will perform work through March 2026,

Several Department of Defense officials participated in a two-day virtual conference, hosted by McAleese & Associates, to discuss topics such as acquisition, budget and military modernization. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, highlighted takeaways from the FY2022 Defense Programs conference in his latest analysis report. Speakers included House Armed Services

BAE Systems has won a potential $164 million contract from the U.S. Navy to design new mechanical components for a shipborne missile canister system installed on destroyers and cruisers. The company said Tuesday it will design, develop, test and sustain components of the Mk 41 Vertical Launch System‘s legacy and existing configurations. BAE’s U.S. subsidiary

Michael Bradshaw, an information technology industry leader, has been named chief information officer of Kyndryl, an independent managed infrastructure services provider spinning out of IBM (NYSE: IBM). He previously served as executive vice president and CIO at NBC Universal, where he led the company’s global IT operations, strategy, applications and tech infrastructure, IBM said Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2021 — David Egts, senior director and chief technologist of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, indicated during a question-and-answer session with ExecutiveBiz the use of edge computing devices and an open hybrid cloud approach could help agencies address data management challenges. “Edge devices are meant to provide near

A. Harold and Associates, BGI, Carley and Crew Training International have won positions on a potential five-year, $90 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop new lessons for pilot and aircrew training curriculum. A. Harold and Associates, BGI, Carley and Crew Training International will compete for task orders to help the Naval Air Warfare

Mark Forman, former federal chief information officer, has been appointed executive vice president for enterprise optimization and transformation practice at Dynamic Integrated Services, GovCon Wire has learned. He will oversee a team of digital transformation professionals in advising government officials as they implement new business platforms meant to address performance challenges and help agencies adopt

A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has received a potential $68.4 million task order under a six-year contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for delivery of GPS receiver parts and provision of vendor-managed inventory services. Raytheon Intelligence and Space will conduct work in California through May 13, 2022, as part of the firm-fixed-price task order,

Nico Popp, former chief product officer of cybersecurity software provider Forcepoint, has been appointed to the same position at Columbia, Maryland-based vulnerability management company Tenable. He will oversee global engineering and product management functions that support Tenable’s framework to help customers understand and address potential cyber risks across an attack surface, the company said Tuesday.