GovConWire's Government Contracting News 10/26/2022

Since the close of William LaPlante’s service as assistant secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics in 2017, he has noticed a significant and much-needed increase in the amount of prototyping and experimentation activity within the Department of Defense.  Now, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has returned to the public sector as the

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) reported $17 billion in fiscal 2022 third quarter sales, reflecting a 5 percent increase from the same period last year, and posted a total backlog of $168 billion at the end of the quarter with defense business accounting for $67 billion of that figure. “Our $168 billion company backlog grew over

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has cleared a planned merger between Arlington, Virginia-based Leonardo DRS and Israeli radar maker RADA Electronic Industries (Nasdaq: RADA). Both parties first announced their all-stock transaction in June and they now expect to complete the business combination in late November or early December. DRS said Tuesday

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Red Hat have partnered to support national security missions using artificial intelligence and Kubernetes technologies. Lockheed will use Red Hat Device Edge to equip unmanned aerial systems and other military platforms with updated software designed to enable such systems to manage large AI workloads and speed up the decision-making process

Core4ce will provide health information technology services to the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy and the Defense Health Agency under a $173 million contract from Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic. The Defense Health Infrastructure and Application Engineering contract marks the company’s third major NIWC award and includes support to organizations that will be integrated

The General Services Administration plans to launch industry competitions in 2023 for the third iteration of the agency’s Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract and the follow-on to its One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services procurement vehicle. Alliant 3 will be a multiple-agency, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract meant to provide federal agencies access to information technology services and OASIS+

Xage Security will collaborate with Four Inc. to bring zero trust offerings to the federal government under an aggregation partnership between the two companies. Four will distribute Xage’s security platforms and services through a channel network, NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract and the U.S. Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-Software 2 acquisition vehicle, Xage

Changeis has received a task order to help the Federal Railroad Administration manage agency operations and programs. The order awarded under a blanket purchase agreement will support FRA in efforts to implement railroad safety regulations and policies, administer grants for national rail network development and conduct technical research and development projects, the company said Tuesday.

ASI Government has expanded its leadership team with the addition of William Roberts and Douglas Stuck as director of acquisition solutions for technology and director of client solutions, respectively. Both executives bring decades of government and industry experience as ASI aims to help federal government clients manage their acquisition programs, the company said Tuesday. William

Steve Parker, vice president and general manager of bomber and fighter programs at Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has been promoted to chief operating officer of the BDS division, Reuters reported Tuesday. A spokesperson for Boeing confirmed the promotion of Parker, who will report to BDS President and CEO Ted Colbert. The