GovConWire's Government Contracting News 12/3/2021

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential 10-year, $3.19 billion contract from NASA to produce and operate solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System in support of the Artemis program. The contract covers the production of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension boosters for Artemis IX and flight sets for Artemis IV through

Information technology provider CDW (Nasdaq: CDW) has closed its approximately $2.5 billion cash purchase of Sirius Computer Solutions from private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. CDW said Thursday it expects the transaction to help grow the company’s IT portfolio for the government and business enterprise sectors in the areas of managed services, cloud, data

Joey Hoskins, most recently the director of business development at BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), has been elevated to a vice president position. He succeeds Mark Barth, who was appointed business manager for a BWXT-led joint venture that won the Department of Energy’s $21 billion Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract in October, the company

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a solicitation for a 10-year recompete contract for professional, technical and scientific services focused on the satellite domain. The ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract set aside for small businesses and has a base term of five years and an option period of five

In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Robert Dapkiewicz, general manager and senior vice president of federal at MetTel, about the company’s Global Cloud Network, the long-term impact of SASE architecture on federal network capabilities as well as intelligent process automation, data analytics and business intelligence. Here’s an excerpt from the interview

PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) and Amentum are expected to carry on with their planned merger after the Falls Church, Virginia-based defense and government services contractor did not secure an alternative acquisition offer during the go-shop period that expired Monday. Germantown, Maryland-based Amentum agreed to buy PAE in an all-cash deal worth approximately $1.9 billion in October.

Eddie Morris, a nearly 25-year veteran of NCI Information Systems, has been named vice president of strategic pricing and profitability at Arlington, Virginia-based technology services provider Excella. He will be responsible for ensuring that Excella’s artificial intelligence and agile transformation service offerings are appropriate and align with federal acquisition requirements, the company said Thursday. Morris

Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin and Nanoracks have received contracts worth $415.6 million combined from NASA to design space-based facilities for low Earth orbit. The Space Act Agreements come as the agency is looking to retire the International Space Station and transition to newer commercially developed facilities that could be accessible to both public and private

BAE Systems will continue to supply military-code GPS receiver technology to the Department of Defense and its international allies under a $316 award from the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA exercised an option on a multiyear contract awarded to the company’s U.S. subsidiary in May to procure Modernized GPS User Equipment Increment 1 Common GPS Modules

Lisa Gaisford, a nearly 27-year public and private sector veteran, has joined Amyx as director of federal civilian programs, according to her LinkedIn post. She joins the Reston, Virginia-based management and information technology services provider after her tenure as managing director at Washington, D.C.-based tech company Dcode, where she oversaw innovation training and advisory services