GovConWire's Government Contracting News 11/29/2021

Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense subsidiary has received a $591.6 million modification under the U.S. Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle acquisition contract to produce additional military trucks and trailers. This award covers the delivery of 1,669 JLTV tucks, 868 trailers and associated kits and components to domestic and foreign military sales customers, the Department of Defense

Paul Weiss, a two-decade veteran of CGI (NYSE: GIB), has been named VP of strategic program delivery and solution development at Reston, Virginia-based information technology company Brillient. He will oversee employee engagement, innovation and customer success functions within Brillient’s digital transformation business area, with a focus on federal civilian, national security and health markets, the

MarkLogic, a data integration and management company backed by private equity firm Vector Capital, has purchased semantic platform vendor Smartlogic in a move to offer integrated tools that could help public and private sector customers gain insight from datasets. San Jose, California-based Smartlogic has worked with clients at government, energy, health care, life sciences, media,

Christopher O’Donnell, acting assistant secretary for acquisition at the Department of Defense, will keynote a Nov. 3 virtual event hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to provide insight into the Pentagon’s current priorities to advance capabilities for the U.S. military. O’Donnell is also the deputy assistant secretary of defense for platform

An Austal subsidiary in Mobile, Alabama, will help the U.S. Navy maintain littoral combat ships deployed to the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific region under a potential $215.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The five-year IDIQ award to Austal USA has a $72.5 million initial value that covers LCS continuous maintenance and emergent repair services, the

The U.S. Air Force is seeking proposals for the first on-ramp of a multi-year engineering and analytics support contract managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AF Base. According to the request for proposals posted Wednesday on SAM.gov, AFLCMC is conducting a full and open competition as the service looks to

Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide six more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to U.S. Special Operations Command under a $212.6 million delivery order modification. The company will also provide eight spare shipsets to SOCOM for the remanufactured rotary-wing military aircraft, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. In a separate statement, Boeing said the modification brings

A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE:

BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Track, Assess, eNgage and Analyze

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have come up with a roadmap of future activities related to cryptoassets in 2022 to provide greater public clarity on whether such activities by banking institutions are legally allowed. Activities outlined in the