DARPA taps BAE to create space tech testbed

BAE Systems' U.S. arm gets tasked by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a space technology testbed under a potential $12.8 million contract.

CSRA retains helicopter support work

CSRA will continue to support the Navy and Foreign Military Sales of the H-60 Seahawk helicopter by providing technology and system updates.

Subcontractor deal nets Salient CRGT $5M in analytics work

Salient CRGT will provide data analytics support to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under a $5 million subcontract.

CSRA wins $158M VA digital record order

CSRA takes in a three-year, $158 million Veterans Affairs task order to turn 7 million health records into a digital format.

Northrop gets transparent about classified revenues, somewhat

Northrop Grumman is one of several examples of public companies with growing classified work that it just can't talk about. But here is what they can tell us.

Merlin goes on a cyber win streak

Merlin International has won $80 million in new cyber work at the VA during the last quarter but the success was years in the making.

Lockheed books $215M Postal Service sorting tech contract

Lockheed Martin receives a potential $215 million contract to provide automated processing systems to the Postal Service.

MEI takes $90M Army R&D contract

Small business Millennium Engineering and Integration Co. wins a five-year, $90.8 million Army research-and-development contract.

Raytheon granted $2.9B contract extension

On second thought and after an alert from a reader, I mischaracterized Raytheon's $2.9 billion contract award.

How Booz Allen's growth is tied to hiring success

Booz Allen Hamilton's contract backlog and revenue are both on growth trajectories. It just needs the staffers to make it all count.

DISA snubs incumbents with $17.5B Encore III awards

Multiple incumbents came up empty in their quest to win spots on DISA's $17.5 billion Encore III vehicle. Can protests be far behind?

GAO dings Census for poor procurement

We look inside the key mistakes Census made when it awarded a $283 million contract to CDW-G for mobile devices for the 2020 population count.

Army names 171 companies as winners of $8.2B R&D contract

The Army has named 171 companies as winners of an $8.3 billion contract to support research and development work related to chemical and biological weapons.

CSRA gets the green light for $163M DISA cyber contract

CSRA is moving forward with a $163 million endpoint security contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency now that a bid protest has been withdrawn.

Unisys Federal provides bright spot for company results

Unisys Federal provided a bright spot in third quarter results for the company as biometrics and security solutions drive growth.

Tanium, WWT land $750M cyber contract from DOD Silicon Valley hub

Tanium and World Wide Technology finalize a potential five-year, $750 million cyber services contract with the Defense Department's Silicon Valley organization.

Navy awards $1B wireless contract, one giant incumbent missing

Three of the "Big Four" wireless carriers will continue their services for defense and other federal agencies under a new potential five-year, $993 million Navy contract. But which telecom giant missed out?

Leidos fights on for lost TSA contract

Leidos has turned to the Government Accountability Office in a bid to keep an incumbent contract worth $578 million to support screening and other security equipment.

Puerto Rico contracting scandal highlights risk of no-compete contracts

The contracting scandal involving Puerto Rico and Whitefish Energy Holdings should serve as a warning about the risks of no-compete contracts.

Cubic takes $11M Marine Corps training contract

Cubic Global Defense of San Diego has won an $11.6 million contract for training support from the Marine Corps before they are deployed.