The U.S. Army has selected six companies to design, build, sustain, modernize and restore military and civilian facilities under a $76M multiple-award contract. The construction companies will compete for task orders under the firm-fixed-price contract and work to complete duties by Jan. 21, 2026, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Read More »Defense Vet Andrew Knaggs Promoted to Pacem CEO
Andrew Knaggs, former chief operating officer of Falls Church, Virginia-based consulting firm Pacem Solutions International, has been promoted to serve as the company’s CEO, replacing Cory Mills.
Read More »Katie Arrington: DOD to Roll Out CMMC Requirements in DHS Contracts
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for the office of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the Department of Defense is determining ways on how to integrate the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements into Department of Homeland Security contracts, Nextgov reported Thursday.
Read More »Cisco’s Andy Stewart: CMMC Seeks to Drive Broader Change Across DIB to Ensure Tech, Data Security
Andy Stewart, a senior federal strategist at Cisco, wrote about the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Level Certification framework and how it helps deliver trust throughout the entire supply chain and drive change across the defense industrial base to protect the government’s data and technology used to support military operations.
Read More »Tutor Perini Subsidiary Awarded $67M for Defense, Homeland Security Infrastructure Projects
A Tutor Perini subsidiary has booked $66.9 million in two awards for construction efforts with the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. Perini Management Services Inc. will renovate U.S. Air Force Academy's Cadet Field House in Colorado and design and build a dormitory at the Glynco campus for DHS.
Read More »Raytheon Tests Data Analysis Method for Tactical Ground Station; David Appel Quoted
Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has demonstrated an activity-based intelligence methodology for a ground station being developed to help military users receive data and find potential threats on the battlefield.
Read More »DOD Taps Continuus for Onshore Production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Continuus Pharmaceuticals has secured a $69.3M contract with the Department of Defense to use its integrated continuous manufacturing technology for developing critical active pharmaceutical ingredients and final dosage form medicines used for COVID-19 treatment.
Read More »Microsoft Changes Government Cloud Access Requirements to Help Small Businesses Adopt CMMC Standards
Microsoft has modified the requirements needed by members of the defense industrial base applying for access to the company's U.S. government cloud offerings to help them adapt to the Department of Defense's new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification standards.
Read More »Simba Chain Awarded Navy Contract to Continue Dev’t of Blockhain-Based Logistics Monitoring Tech
Simba Chain has secured a $1.5M contract with the Office of Naval Research to further develop a blockchain-driven inventory surveillance technology for the Defense Logistics Agency.
Read More »Army’s Northrop-Built Integrated Battle Command System Gets Green Light for Production
The Integrated Battle Command System that Northrop Grumman developed for the U.S. Army to help link warfighters and sensors across the battlefield has been cleared by the Department of Defense for low-rate initial production, Defense News reported Wednesday.
Read More »USAF Needs Industry Input to Inform FMS System Modernization
The U.S. Air Force seeks market information on ways to update the service's legacy platforms used in foreign military sales transactions to ensure that the systems are in line with modern cybersecurity standards. USAF said Thursday in a SAM notice it seeks to modernize and migrate digital assets from the Case Management Control System and the Security Assistance Management Information System to a secure, open-systems environment.
Read More »Dan Antal Named Rolls-Royce General Counsel for Defense, North American Arm
Dan Antal, formerly senior vice president and general counsel for civil group at Leidos, has joined Rolls-Royce as general counsel for defense and North America business. He will serve on the board of Rolls-Royce North America, lead general counsel teams across the U.S. and oversee the company’s special security agreement with the Department of Defense.
Read More »Lockheed Awarded $59M Contract Modification Under DARPA Hypersonic Booster Program
Lockheed Martin’s missiles and fire control business has secured a $58.9M contract modification for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-led effort to develop a ground-launched hypersonic booster system that would carry and deliver various weapon payloads. Under the modification, the company will perform risk reduction testing for the Operational Fires program to attain critical design maturity at system-level, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Read More »NTIA Eyes Competition to Help Create Open-Architecture 5G Stack for DOD Missions
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is looking for public input on plans to launch a challenge focused on developing an open stack of 5G technologies to support the Department of Defense’s missions.
Read More »GSA Seeks Consultation Services for SBIR/STTR Portal Cloud Migration Effort
The General Services Administration is looking for potential sources of subject matter expertise to help the Department of Defense migrate its web portal for small businesses to a cloud environment.
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