GovConWire's Government Contracting News 5/28/2021

A joint venture between Jacobs (NYSE: J) and North Wind Portage has won a potential $6.4 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to conduct environmental cleanup efforts at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. DOE said Thursday its environmental management office chose Idaho Environmental Coalition as the winning team for the 10-year Idaho Cleanup Project End State

Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased Pentek for approximately $65 million as part of efforts to expand software-based radio, radio frequency system-on-chip and data recorder offerings. “The acquisition of Pentek is an excellent fit for our market and low-risk content expansion strategy,” Mark Aslett, president and CEO of Mercury and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner,

The U.S. Air Force has awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $950 million in combined value to 22 companies to procure intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment and services in support of U.S. customers under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Department of Defense said Thursday recipients of the multiple-award contracts will help FMS clients integrate ISR sensors

Charles Onstott, a nearly three-decade veteran of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined Calibre Systems as vice president and chief technology officer. He will advance innovation and growth initiatives through the development and application of enterprise information technology platforms and help identify opportunities for delivering IT services as part of Calibre’s executive and

A Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $110 million contract to provide medical exams to current and prospective FBI staff. QTC Medical Services will form and oversee a network of private health providers to conduct fit for duty evaluations and vaccinations as part of the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the medical operations

IAP Worldwide Services will provide operating support services to a U.S. Navy installation located in Guam under a potential $171.8 million contract that includes a base value of $36.6 million Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command will include facility maintenance, ground landscaping and utility management on Naval Station Guantanamo Bay,

Brian Blanchette, former director of technical and design engineering at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), was appointed as vice president of quality and engineering at HII’s Pascagoula, Mississippi-based naval shipbuilding arm. The company said Thursday Blanchette will succeed Dave Belanger, who is retiring in July after more than a decade of

Belcan, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners, has bought service-disabled veteran-owned professional services contractor VICTOR42 for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand work with government and defense customers. Washington, D.C.-based VICTOR42 offers special operations and information technology support to government clients such as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Special Operations Command

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Millennium Space Systems have received separate contracts to create digital models of sensor technology for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite constellation. The Missile Track Custody Prototype contracts call for the two companies to perform modeling work as part of the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program, the

CAE‘s health care arm has appointed four executives to fill sales leadership roles across its military and government, e-commerce, strategic and core business segments. Heidi Wood, president of CAE Healthcare, said in a statement published Thursday the vice president appointments are aimed at supporting the company’s market expansion and opportunity acquisition efforts by focusing on