GovConWire's Government Contracting News 11/22/2021

The Department of Defense has asked Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) to compete for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “Our commitment to supporting our nation’s military and ensuring that our warfighters and defense partners have access to the best technology for the

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have received other transaction agreements from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor design concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA said Friday prototypes that will emerge through the OTAs will be integrated with the Aegis

Advanced IT Concepts, M.C. Dean and Teksynap have joined the list of awardees on an $800 million U.S. Army contract vehicle for information systems engineering and information technology support services, according to a Department of Defense announcement posted Friday. The Army added three positions on its Total Engineering and Integration Services IV contract more than

In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Eric Trexler, vice president of Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure Sales – Theatre Lead Company for Forcepoint, about cybersecurity challenges, the future of warfare and our military systems and the impact of ransomware and malware on it as well as the potential need for a

The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics segment a $584.8 million contract modification to fund system integration engineering activities related to new F-35 electronic warfare and countermeasure equipment. The award will support development work on the ASQ-239 electronic warfare suite for U.S. military customers and non-Department of Defense participants in the fighter

Leidos‘ Dynetics subsidiary has won a $478.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a thermal protection system intended to protect surface-to-surface hypersonic missiles from intense heat during flight. Dynetics will build the Hypersonic Thermal Protection System prototype and help the military branch conduct materials research, inspection and acceptance efforts under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract,

Sierra Space has raised $1.4 billion in a round of Series A financing led by General Atlantic, Moore Strategic Ventures and Coatue, and the Sierra Nevada Corp. subsidiary will use the new capital to further develop the Dream Chaser reusable orbital spaceplane. Accounts and funds managed by AE Industrial Partners and BlackRock Private Equity Partners

A shipbuilding division at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has secured a $113.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead-time materials needed to build the LHA 9 amphibious assault ship. The modification is the sixth increment of the LLTM procurement contract awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding and brings the total advance funding amount

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential two-year, $86.6 million task order from the U.S. Navy to integrate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems on military vehicles. The company will perform C4ISR production, engineering and fielding work for the land systems integration division under Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic,

Vimo, doing business as GetInsured, has purchased Change and Innovation Agency as both companies aim to help agencies transform health and human services delivery with the use of cloud-based technology. Both parties have a shared mission to bring software-as-a-service platforms to public health care programs, Vimo said Thursday. The company noted that GetInsured’s SaaS platform