GovConWire's Government Contracting News 1/21/2022

The Federal Reserve Board issued a discussion paper outlining the potential benefits, risks and policy considerations for a U.S. central bank digital currency. The paper titled “Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation” includes a discussion of existing forms of money, the current state of the U.S. payment system and

The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Airbus’ U.S. arm, Capella Space, ICEYE, Umbra and PredaSAR to develop commercial radar systems. NRO said Thursday it issued a broad agency announcement framework for strategic commercial enhancements in October 2021 with commercial radar as the first focus area. The agency’s Strategic Commercial Enhancements BAA Framework seeks

A joint venture between Rhode Island-based construction firm Gilbane and German engineering company Zueblin has secured a $969 million contract to build a hospital for the U.S. Army at a military garrison in Kaiserslautern, Germany. For the Rhine Ordnance Barracks Medical Center Replacement project, the industry team will construct a 985,000-square-foot facility with nine operating

Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, spoke at length on the “booming” space economy, growing adversarial threats in the space domain and the nation’s most pressing space capability gaps in a closing keynote address during the Space Acquisition Forum, hosted by GovCon Wire Events on Wednesday. The platform’s timely event

GovernmentCIO has unveiled an updated logo and changed its name to GovCIO to mark the company’s expansion into new federal agencies and reflect its corporate growth and additional information technology service offerings. The rebranding effort came after GovCIO acquired IT services contractor Salient CRGT in August 2021, creating a combined entity with more than 2,600

Kim Crider, a retired U.S. Air Force major general and former chief innovation and technology officer for the U.S. Space Force, has been appointed to lead artificial intelligence innovation for national security efforts within Deloitte’s government and public services practice. Crider will work with government agencies to further advance their adoption of AI and data

John Boyle, group president of defense and civilian solutions at Cherokee Federal, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Thursday. He discussed the company’s acquisition of Preting Consulting, push into the intelligence community, work in the federal health care industry and growth in the government contracting sector. Here’s an excerpt

Anduril Industries has won a $967.6 million contract to serve as an industry partner of U.S. Special Operations Command for a counter-unmanned system prototyping project. The Irvine, California-based technology company will help SOCOM integrate systems under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, follow-on production contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Twelve offerors bid for the Systems Integration Partner

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has secured a $199.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to work on the USS Iwo Jima for the ship’s docking selected restricted availability in fiscal year 2022. The modification exercises contract options for the amphibious assault ship’s SRA, which includes maintenance, repair work and drydocking, the Department

The Potomac Officers Club on Wednesday hosted its 8th Annual Defense R&D Summit, which fostered collaborative conversations between distinguished public and private sector defense leaders surrounding the Pentagon’s paramount research and development initiatives to close crucial capability gaps within Department of Defense agencies, drive innovation in next-generation technology adoption and better protect the nation’s warfighters against evolving