A BAE Systems business unit has received a potential $50 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to repair, maintain and modernize USS Russell, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 25, 2021 “” Vectrus' systems business will provide the U.S. Navy with transshipment activity assistance through the implementation of 5G-enabled platforms for environmental sensing, robotic material handling and inventory management at Naval Base Coronado, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 16.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 25, 2021 “” Serco Group's North American division aims to expand work with the Department of Defense by acquiring Reston, Virginia-based management consulting services provider Whitney, Bradley & Brown, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 16.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 24, 2021 “” Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, shared his views about pursuing complementary merger and acquisition deals and competing for big information technology contracts in the current federal market landscape, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 16.

The accreditation body of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has named Sentar as a registered provider organization, validating the cyber intelligence company's credibility to offer CMMC consulting services.

Lockheed Martin has ordered more than 150 training subsystems for the F-35 Lightning II Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation system from Cubic's mission and performance solutions business under a $32 million contract between the two companies.

The National Science Foundation has awarded grants to nine universities to fund 11 research projects under the Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, which was launched in partnership with Amazon to help ensure AI systems are accountable, beneficial to all, fair, inclusive and transparent.

NASA and aircraft manufacturer Aerion Supersonic have announced a research and development partnership aimed at assessing the parametric suitability of propulsion and thermal management systems to support the development of a next generation of ultra-high-speed aircraft for commercial use.

MSBAI has received a Phase 2 contract under the U.S. Air Force's Small Business Innovation Research initiative to repurpose a cognitive artificial intelligence assistant for the service branch and the Missile Defense Agency to run hypersonic weapon trajectory simulation software from Science Applications International Corp.

The U.S. Navy has awarded a five-year, $70 million contract to Utility Works joint venture for utility engineering and management services in support of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, which provides Department of Defense agencies, unified commands and the Navy and Marine Corps with facilities engineering and acquisition support.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 10, 2021 “” Cloud services from Amazon Web Services were added to the milCloud 2.0 contract of General Dynamics' information business in an effort to help the Department of Defense speed up its adoption of cloud capabilities as well as its cost saving and mission improvement efforts, ExecutiveGov reported Feb.1.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 8, 2021 “” Robert Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, highlighted during an interview with GovCon Wire on Jan. 28 Cloudera's focus on helping agencies manage and understand data to increase speed and efficiency of decision-making.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched an in-space manufacturing program that seeks to develop materials for large space and lunar structures and has announced a Feb. 26 webinar for interested proposers. The Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design program is aimed at enabling construction on orbit and on the lunar surface in response to payload size limitations.

Oshkosh Defense has won a $61 million contract from the U.S. Army for the delivery of the Underbody Armor Kit that will be equipped to the military service branch's Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles for landmine and improvised explosive device protection.

Amazon Web Services has granted Slalom a security competency status, recognizing the Seattle, Washington-based business and technology consulting firm's ability to support customers' cloud integration and deployment efforts.