GovConWire's Government Contracting News 5/26/2021

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has issued a request for proposals for the potential 10-year, $50 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners follow-on contract for general, health care and biomedical IT services. CIO-SP4 is a governmentwide acquisition contract that has a five-year base term and five option years and

Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, have closed the acquisition of Cubic for approximately $3 billion. Cubic said Tuesday it will remain headquartered in San Diego and stop trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the go-private transaction. Cubic stockholders approved an amended buyout offer of Veritas and

Craig Miller, a 26-year veteran of Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT), has been named president of the government systems business at the Carlsbad, California-based communications company. Miller succeeds Ken Peterman in the role and leads Viasat’s global defense business in delivering new platforms to meet defense requirements in tactical data links, satellite networks, cybersecurity and information assurance,

The U.S. Army has awarded Amentum a one-year, $171.2 million contract modification to perform logistics work on government-owned fixed-wing transport aircraft platforms. Army Contracting Command obligated $58.7 million at the time of award from the service branch’s fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance funds, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. DynCorp International, which Amentum acquired in

Tod Weber, former chairman and CEO of Software AG’s government solutions division, has been appointed senior vice president and general manager of the federal systems group at enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3 AI (NYSE: AI). Weber brings more than 35 years of technology industry experience to his new position and will be responsible for

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $101.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide interim contractor support and assign logistics service representatives at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina where the KC-46 Pegasus refueling aircraft is stationed. The award exercises options on the contract for engineering, manufacturing and development of

Valerie Isbell, a former Customs and Border Protection official at the Department of Homeland Security, has been named a strategic board adviser at Sev1Tech. She brings to Woodbridge, Virginia-based information technology service management company almost four decades of experience in serving at DHS and the departments of Justice and Defense, Sev1Tech said Tuesday. Isbell helped

Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) has agreed to purchase Boston-based cybersecurity company Smokescreen Technologies for an undisclosed sum in a strategy to offer an integrated zero trust and threat defense offering. San Jose, California-based Zscaler said Tuesday it expects to close the transaction during the cloud security vendor’s 2021 fiscal year fourth quarter. Smokescreen designed its platform

ArchTIS and its U.S. subsidiary, Nucleus Cyber, have signed on four channel partners to offer information security technology to government contractors that want to pursue the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Canberra, Australia-based archTIS said Wednesday its newly formed U.S. federal and defense sales and channel practice partnered with Carahsoft Technology, Hawk

Phantom Space has acquired Tucson, Arizona-based flight hardware developer StratSpace for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand satellite launch and data infrastructure offerings. Phantom said Tuesday it aims to offer daily space access by integrating the company’s Daytona and Laguna rocket platforms with core StratSpace technology assets. StratSpace has helped customers build, engineer