GovConWire's Government Contracting News 11/16/2022

John Ustica’s career with Siemens spans over two decades — a tenure whose length he sees as a strategic benefit in the government contracting landscape today. His previous posts at the technology and manufacturing company cover a wide range of roles from financial leadership to manufacturing plant management as he has moved up the ranks. 

SpaceX has received a potential $1.15 billion contract modification from NASA to continue development work on its Starship human landing system and provide a second manned demonstration landing on the moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. NASA said Tuesday the Option B modification was awarded under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships

Amentum has received a five-year, $126 million contract task order to perform research, development, test and evaluation work in support of the U.S. Army combat systems modernization efforts. The award covering RDT&E services was made under a contract vehicle managed by the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center, the company said Tuesday. Under the task

The General Services Administration has posted a draft request for proposal for the follow-on to its One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contracting vehicle and is seeking industry comments to inform the development of the OASIS+ Program. The release moves the agency closer to launching the next generation acquisition vehicle for complex non-information technology services,

John Gastright, senior vice president for government affairs at Falls Church, Virginia-based government services contractor Amentum, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of the International Stability Operations Association, GovCon Wire has learned. He succeeds Thomas Lampley, who has been at the helm of ISOA since October 2021, the organization said Tuesday. Prior

The State Department has cleared a potential $700 million sale of up to 72 modernized Patriot missile systems and associated equipment to the Swiss government. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed foreign military sales agreement that will include trainers, skid kits, canister consumables, launcher stations heater controls and

VTG has acquired Next Rev Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its multicloud and software development capabilities and client base with the addition of new Intelligence Community customers. VTG said Tuesday it expects to broaden its digital transformation and technical capabilities with the addition of Next Rev’s expertise in cyber,

Four companies have won positions on a U.S. Navy blanket purchase agreement to compete for up to $52 million in command and control processor orders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command.  Each contractor is eligible to manufacture as many as 72 C2P systems for the service branch under the firm-fixed-price BPA, the Department of

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction prototype agreement modifications to continue the development and refinement of the companies’ respective concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor. Both contractors will work to polish their prototypes for the “materiel solutions analysis” phase of the GDI project, MDA’s effort to

The board of directors at Battelle has appointed Kirkland “Kirk” Donald, a 37-year U.S. Navy veteran, to succeed John Welch as chairman. Welch, who has held the chairman role since 2012, will retire from the nonprofit applied science and technology development company after 21 years of service, Battelle said Tuesday. Donald has served as the