GovConWire's Government Contracting News 4/11/2022

The U.S. Army has awarded 26 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $869 million contract to provide research, development and engineering support services to the service branch. The firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive fee contract also covers test and evaluation, support for biological and chemical demilitarization operations and acquisition services, including product development and deployment, the Department of

The Department of Defense is working to overcome international policy-related hurdles, data tagging challenges and training obstacles as it looks to build resilient mission partner environments and implement JADC2 on an enterprise level. These issues are becoming increasingly more urgent today as the tense geopolitical landscape continues to change, said Stuart Whitehead, deputy director for cyber

The U.S. Air Force’s cryptologic office has created a new framework, dubbed Converged Air Force Enterprise Mission, to help the service achieve information dominance by shifting from platform-centered intelligence analysis to a problem-centric, sensor-agnostic architecture. The Converged Air Force Enterprise Mission framework seeks to connect analysts across various locations as they analyze problem sets within

Robert Smith, executive vice president for marine systems segment at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), will serve as acting president of the Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor’s Bath Iron Works subsidiary until a permanent replacement is appointed, WMTW reported Friday. His appointment came after Dirk Lesko, president of Bath Iron Works since 2016, stepped down from his

The U.S. Intelligence Community is deepening its partnership with industry as space-based imagery and intelligence becomes more vital to the evolving situation in Ukraine. Specifically, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has significantly increased its acquisition of electro-optical technology from commercial companies like BlackSky, Maxar and others. During a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on

Caelum Research has won a potential five-year, $201.1 million contract to perform data collection work for the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command received five bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation process and estimated services will conclude on April 14, 2027, the Department of Defense said Friday. The award comes nearly four months

ExecutiveBiz featured Kim Lynch, executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. She discussed company culture and core values as well as workforce retention and expansion efforts. Lynch also talked about Booz Allen’s strategic goals for growth in 2022 and how artificial intelligence and machine learning could

Anthony Lisuzzo, a former member of the federal government’s Senior Executive Service, has been appointed president and chief operation officer at Ironwave Technologies. Lisuzzo has more than 35 years of industry and government experience and will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Ironwave, the company said Friday. His appointment to the president and COO

Louisiana-based shipyard operator Bollinger will build a mine countermeasures unmanned surface vehicle for the U.S. Navy under a potential five-year, $122.9 million contract. Naval Sea Systems Command received three bids through the SAM website for the firm-fixed-price contract, which has an initial value of $13.7 million and includes options that would extend work through April

Carm Caruso, a two-decade PwC veteran, joined Reli Group as chief financial officer and he will be responsible for accounting, finance, pricing and human resources functions in his new position. Reli Group said Friday in a LinkedIn post Caruso comes to the company with more than 20 years of experience in business functions such as