GovConWire's Government Contracting News 10/21/2021

Trax International has won a five-year, $654.8 million contract to provide support services to U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland. The company will help the military branch plan, analyze, report and conduct testing activities under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Army Contracting Command received three bids for the procurement effort

Mirion Technologies, a radiation detection and measurement platforms provider, is expected to start trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange after it completed its merger with blank check company GS Acquisition Holdings Corp II (NYSE: GSAH) that was first announced in June. Shareholders at GS Acquisition approved the combination Tuesday and Atlanta-based Mirion said

Ninety members of Congress wrote a letter to President Joe Biden urging his administration to direct the Department of Defense to increase its investment in F-35 aircraft production and sustainment efforts. “The U.S. must modernize our fighter inventory to ensure we can sustain a strong national defense and maintain an advantage to counter the pacing

ExecutiveBiz spoke with Rick Herrmann, director of Intel’s U.S. Public Sector region, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. The executive talked about artificial intelligence, machine learning, 5G and other crucial areas of technology development, Intel’s key partnerships, the top data security priorities in the federal sector and the impact of semiconductor industry

A Deltek analysis shows that 79 percent of the total value of the top 10 federal professional services opportunities in fiscal year 2022 fall under follow-ons to existing contracts and that 90 percent of those opportunities in FY 2022 are expected to be single-award contracts, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. The U.S. Agency for International

Envistacom has secured positions on two of the 10 pools of the General Services Administration’s 10-year ASTRO contract vehicle for manned, robotics, optionally manned and unmanned platforms. The company said Wednesday it secured positions on development/systems integration and research pools of the ASTRO indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract. Alan Carson, president of Envistacom, said the company will

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $206.8 million order modification from Naval Air Systems Command to adapt F-35 systems for developmental test and system modernization efforts. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the company’s aeronautics segment will conduct non-recurring engineering activities, plan system adjustments and provide technical data packages to the Joint Strike Fighter

Mario Bazan, former vice president of Salient CRGT‘s civilian services group, has joined General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business as VP for government operations, G2Xchange reported Wednesday. His nearly three-decade career includes time at DSFederal, Vistra Solutions, Vignette, Computer Sciences Corp. and ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), according to his LinkedIn profile. Bazan’s professional experience covers

The U.S. Coast Guard has released a request for proposal for engineering development, integration and support services required by its Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Service Center. A SAM.gov solicitation notice posted Tuesday said the Department of Homeland Security component will select 8(a) companies to help design, develop, integrate and test new C5I

Viasat has been selected to help the Department of Defense assess weapon system architectures as part of a cybersecurity pilot program that will employ an analytics-based automation process. Under a DOD contract, Viasat will work to identify vulnerabilities in key weapon components through cyber and software-defined radio threat assessments, the company said Wednesday. The task