GovConWire's Government Contracting News 9/24/2021

  OneWeb has finalized its purchase of TrustComm in a transaction that will make the latter a wholly owned subsidiary focused on delivering managed satellite communications services to government customers. The subsidiary will operate as OneWeb Technologies led by former TrustComm CEO Bob Roe and will provide satellite connectivity to the Five Eyes alliance, NATO,

The House on Thursday voted 316-113 to pass a $777.9 billion defense policy bill that would increase service members’ salary by 2.7 percent and fund 13 additional combat ships, The Wall Street Journal reported. The proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022 reflects a 5 percent increase, or approximately $37.5 billion, in defense

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected 10 companies to support general construction projects at two U.S. Marine Corps installations in North Carolina under a five-year, $249 million contract. Contractors can compete for task orders to design, build, renovate, modify and repair facilities at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry

The U.S. Air Force has started its process of soliciting bids for the second iteration of a contract vehicle for support work on the branch’s information network, according to a notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov. The Integrated Air Force Network Operations and Services-2 contract has a ceiling value of $329 million and is reserved for

Ryan McCarthy, formerly the secretary of the U.S. Army and previous Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of advisers at Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity and systems engineering services provider Millennium. The company said Thursday that McCarthy will apply his defense community experience to advise the company’s executive team on corporate strategy matters. He held the top

The U.S. Navy reawarded five positions on a $151 million contract for the life cycle support of information technology systems at Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command. AttainX, Chitra Productions, SV Synergies, OSCTech and Stellar Innovations and Solutions now hold spots on the 66-month indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract after the service branch took corrective action to the award

Immuta has named six industry veterans to its leadership team to help advance its growth strategy and meet the demand for its universal cloud data access control platforms. Former Trifacta executives Brian Shealey and Rehan Sadiq have joined Boston-based Immuta to serve as vice president of sales and VP of regional alliances, respectively, for the

An industry team led by Serco Group‘s U.S. subsidiary has completed conceptual design work for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to build and demonstrate an unmanned surface vessel capable of long-duration autonomous operations at sea. DARPA downselected Serco Inc.’s Voyager team to move into the preliminary design phase of the No

Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. has received a potential five-year, $121 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Missile Defense Agency for weapon system-related research, development and engineering efforts. The nonprofit organization at Georgia Institute of Technology will conduct R&D work focused on airborne-based missile defense sensors, weapons and communication systems, look into new missile platforms and

Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a $54 million order to produce binocular night vision devices for the U.S. Army, as part of a potential $442 million “other transaction authority” contract. The military branch procured an undisclosed number of Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular units, spare parts and test equipment from Elbit Systems of America through