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Akima Logistics Services, an Akima subsidiary, has secured a position on the ten-year, $14 billion Aircraft Maintenance Enterprise Solution (ACES) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. “We are proud to continue our support of vital Air Force missions and eager to provide effective, efficient, and innovative solutions,“ said Scott Rauer, president of Akima's Facilities Solutions Group.

PAE has been named as one of three prime contractors on the U.S. Department of State's potential ten-year, $3.3 billion Global Support Strategy 2.0 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. “Leveraging our innovative capabilities, enhanced through our 2017 acquisition of FCi Federal, we believe PAE is uniquely positioned to deliver proprietary, customized, technology-enabled solutions for the State Department, adding to our expanding and diverse portfolio of support for the U.S. government,“ said John Heller, president and CEO of PAE and a 2020 Wash100 awardee.

The U.S. Air Force has announced the third iteration of its Agile Cyber Technology (ACT) contract vehicle at an approximate value of $1 billion, open to small businesses, FedScoop reported Thursday. The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) recently published a pre-solicitation notice for the ACT 3 contract, noting that it will expedite cybersecurity research and development.

Criterion Systems has secured a position on the National Institutes of Health's potential 10-year, $20B Chief Information Officer ““ Solutions and Partners 3 contract vehicle to provide information technology services for commercial and non-commercial items in ten task areas.

KBR has secured two recompete, cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders totaling $140M to support engineering and rapid prototyping efforts for the U.S. Navy, the company reported on Monday. 

The Air Force has awarded Amentum a spot on a potential seven-year, $6.4B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide logistics, design engineering and base operating services under the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program V contract vehicle, the company announced on Tuesday.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University's School of Business, said the federal government is implementing an “all-of-the-above“ approach to procurement as it responds to the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. “They are doing [Other Transaction Authorities], they are doing contract ramping, commercial production, they are doing things like the Defense Production Act, so lots of different efforts,“ McGinn said of federal agencies.

The Texas Department of Information Resources has selected Carahsoft Technology to help the state's government agencies and educational institutions procure a range of information technology products and services through a contract vehicle.

The National Institute for Standards and Technology has launched a solicitation for a potential five-year, $6M contract vehicle that will cover technical support to the agency's research on cyber-physical systems, Nextgov reported Friday.

MellingMedical has received a new award to provide the Department of Defense with surgical lasers under a five-year contract vehicle.

The Customs and Border Protection has issued a request for information on potential commercial partners that could help the agency manage its applications and information technology systems in the cloud, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday.

The General Services Administration issued Monday an on-ramp solicitation for pools 1, 3 and 4 of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services - Small Business contract vehicle.

The Department of the Navy has agreed to deploy a national public safety broadband network from AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority across Navy and Marine Corps installations in the U.S., Seeking Alpha reported Monday. “We are honored to help the Department of the Navy transition to the FirstNet public safety communications platform,“ said Mike Leff, vice president for defense at AT&T's public sector business.

A spokesperson for the General Services Administration said two more companies are expected to secure in the next few weeks an authority to operate under GSA's 15-year, $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle for telecommunications and information technology services, Nextgov reported Friday. Michael Maiorana, senior vice president for public sector at Verizon, told Nextgov that the company is close to getting the final approval for the ATO.

David Young, CenturyLink's senior vice president for strategic government, told FCW in an interview published Friday that the company expects agencies to start awarding task orders soon to contractors with authority to operate under the General Services Administration's 15-year, $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle. CenturyLink has become the first vendor to secure an ATO on the EIS contract for telecommunications and information technology services.