Contracts

Justice agrees to take another look at $1B asset forfeiture support contract

A joint venture of Amentum and Science Applications International Corp. has two decades of incumbency, but a challenger is questioning the fairness of the Justice Department's evaluation of recompete bids.

Contracts

Amentum wins $572M NORAD warning system contract

The North American Aerospace Defense Command uses this system to determine the nature of launches and attacks from adversaries.

Companies

A pair of CEO transitions and more leadership moves to note

Key hires and promotions in functions such as business development, operations, talent and sales also feature.

Companies

United Launch Alliance's new CEO and more leadership moves across the market

Key promotions and hires in finance, growth and technology also feature in this listing.

Companies

NASA insourcing push to cost Amentum 3% of revenue in 2027

NASA is taking over more technical and operational work from contractors like Amentum, which laid out both the financial impacts of that to investors and explained where it still has plenty to do for this customer.

Contracts

DCS loses latest protest, but the challenges might not be over

DCS' challenges to the Army's corrective action involving this $251.7 million task order are dismissed, but the opportunity to raise objections remains if the contract again goes to Amentum.

Contracts

Space Force picks 15 for $981M test, evaluation support contract

This contract focuses on Space Force’s efforts to provide operators an environment of different types of ranges ranges for their test and training work.

Contracts

DCS loses protest over Army's $237M soldier gear contract redo

The company wanted the Army’s corrective action to go further, but the Government Accountability Office disagrees. That clears the Army to look at revised proposals and make a new award decision.

Companies

Amentum promotes industry veteran to build enterprise-wide AI operating model

Amentum's new chief artificial intelligence architect describes how the company is pushing to scale grassroots innovation into mission-ready capabilities.

Companies

Amentum cites data centers, networks as core to its infrastructure strategy

In talking with Wall Street, Amentum's CEO and chief operating officer detailed what the company does today in digital infrastructure and how work with commercial clients such as telcos can apply in government.

Contracts

Amentum secures INDOPACOM supply contract after incumbent's protest denied

Amentum unseated SupplyCore for the contract to support roughly 100 military installations across Japan.

Opinion

Public offerings put GovCon in a new spotlight as SpaceX's listing looms

Think the recent run of initial public offerings over the past 16 months were big? Get ready for SpaceX to break all-time records, and its IPO is one all of GovCon should care about, even if your company does not launch anything at all.

Contracts

GAO details why KBR lost $1.8B NASA spaceflight contract

A rival joint venture’s cost advantage and KBR’s declining performance scores doomed the incumbent’s challenge.

Contracts

Protests force the Army into a second redo of $237M soldier gear contract

Amentum has won the Product Manager Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment contract twice, only to face fresh challenges each time.

Contracts

KBR loses $1.8 billion NASA contract challenge to Ascend JV

KBR challenged the award twice, but the Government Accountability Office upholds NASA's choice of the the Amentum-Aerodyne joint venture.

Companies

Amentum signs lease for Reston headquarters campus

Amentum's decision comes only a few months after Booz Allen Hamilton also chose Reston, Virginia for its headquarters.

Contracts

GAO backs Army’s sole-source extension to KBR’s LOGCAP contract

A challenge by an Amentum-Parsons joint venture fell short after the Government Accountability Office found the Army’s justification for a $3.1 billion extension as reasonable.

Contracts

NASA opens bidding for $1.8B engineering support contract

Technical expertise will trump price in this competition to provide an on-demand technical workforce across dozens of disciplines.

Contracts

Recordings prove DIA wrong in $814M intelligence contract protest

The Defense Intelligence Agency could not support its evaluation findings that dinged SOS International and Amentum.

Companies

Intel's government hires and more leadership moves across the market

This is our final roundup of key executive hires and promotions across the market for 2025.