GovConWire's Government Contracting News 5/27/2021

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and General Motors (NYSE: GM) have partnered to construct a lunar rover to enable astronauts to explore the moon’s surface in support of NASA’s Artemis program. “Surface mobility is critical to enable and sustain long-term exploration of the lunar surface,” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed’s space business and a

Battelle, Clinical Enterprise and PerkinElmer Health Sciences have received contracts worth potentially $650 million combined to help the U.S. government ramp up COVID-19 testing efforts nationwide. The Department of Defense said Wednesday it issued the awards under a partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services to deploy test kits at domestic K-8 schools,

The Atlantic Council has released a report offering recommendations for the U.S. government and its allies to maintain national security and economic competitiveness in the global economy with the use of technology. The council said Wednesday its Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data classified those recommendations into seven areas: global science and

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a five-year, $219 million contract to assist a Department of Homeland Security agency in operating a contact center for immigration-related inquiries, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday. The company will help the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services inform the public regarding the agency’s offered benefits and immigration services,

Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has acquired The Kaizen Company for an undisclosed sum to expand consulting service offerings under the former’s international development practice. Washington, D.C.-based Kaizen will be part of Tetra Tech’s government services group and performs advisory and consulting work in the health, education, peacekeeping, economic development and governance areas, Tetra Tech said

Several technology companies and industry groups wrote a letter Tuesday to President Joe Biden urging him to ensure that the federal government prioritize the procurement of commercial software and tech platforms over custom-built systems in accordance with federal acquisition rules. Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), Govini, Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR), Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and Splunk (Nasdaq:

Alpha Omega Integration will help a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency manage information technology systems for processing global environmental satellite data under a $63 million contract. The Vienna, Virginia-based company said Wednesday it will provide IT support to more than 2,000 users of the Integrated Information Services contract for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems business will supply 105 mm M724A2 reduced-range training cartridges to the U.S. Army under a five-year, $49.3 million firm-fixed-price procurement contract. The Department of Defense said Wednesday Army Contracting Command will award individual orders that will determine contract work locations and funding. St. Petersburg, Florida-based General Dynamics

A Congressional Budget Office report on its estimated $634 billion price tag for modernizing, operating and manning the national nuclear enterprise over the next decade includes “long-planned” submarine construction, plutonium pit production and military weapons programs, according to McAleese & Associates. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, writes that CBO’s