Contracts
NOAA awards key contract for space situational awareness system
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. nabbed a contract worth up to $13.3 million to provide a “presentation layer” for the Traffic Coordination System for Space.
Companies
General Dynamics IT secures $330M in Army training awards
The company will help train 500,000 soldiers across Pacific and Airborne Corps missions by using advanced simulation environments.
Companies
DOD reveals first draft of $15B artificial intelligence contract
The Defense Department wants more companies in the fold for Advana, a multi-domain analytics and AI platform that DOD wants to further scale out.
Companies
BlueHalo acquires underwater robotic tech provider
The technologies that VideoRay specializes in are also what it will bring to AeroVironment, when the latter closes its acquisition of BlueHalo.
Contracts
Assertive Professionals wins $127M MDA professional services contract
The Missile Defense Agency made this award as part of its family of contracts known as TEAMS.
Companies
AeroVironment builds out defense tech portfolio with BlueHalo acquisition
The combination creates a larger player in uncrewed systems, technologies to counter them and space offerings.
Opinion
Groundswell's protest of Army business system award calls out debriefing issues
Groundswell's complaints around the lack of transparency in the competition brings back up an industry-wide frustration with limited feedback in debriefings from agencies.
Contracts
Groundswell claims the Army wanted Accenture to win the $1B EBS-C competition
Groundswell's lawsuit alleges the evaluation process was changed midstream to favor Accenture's U.S. federal arm for the contract to consolidate several Army business and logistics systems.
Contracts
Marine Corps picks 10 for $164M installation command support contract
Nine new companies are joining a program that supports at least 31,000 personnel across the world.
Contracts
Space Force awards 12 seats on 'Hemisphere' advisory contract
The service branch hires a pool of companies to help it manage all phases of program lifecycles that include technology development and anomaly resolution, among others.
Companies
ManTech stands up defense advisory board
This is the company's second such panel of former government officials tasked to help guide strategies with a certain client set.
Podcasts
WT 360: How the defense industrial base can improve its readiness
Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, goes over how the U.S. industrial base has responded before and the path forward for future responses.
Contracts
Leidos captures new weapons systems supply support contract
The $93 million award aims to reduce the timelines and costs of repairs and future investments.
Contracts
LMI to bring AI tools to Army acquisitions
The potential $47.6 million contract calls on LMI will use its LIGER solution to build acquisition tools for the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering, and software.
Contracts
CACI’s protest of $100M Navy award rejected
The decision clears the way for Serco Inc. to move ahead on the contract that involves total force and other management initiatives.
Contracts
Industry seeks more clarity on final CMMC rule
The cybersecurity certification will move forward even as companies continue to have questions about what defines controlled but unclassified information, cloud services and other requirements.
Contracts
DOD plans $1.4B sole source extension for Leidos on health care record
MHS Genesis needs about three years to move to the cloud before a sustainment contract for the Defense Department's massive health record system can be put out for bid, officials said.
Contracts
DARPA details its reach into private investing networks
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency especially wants to hear from angel investors, family offices, venture capital firms and private equity.
Companies
RTX will pay almost $1B for defrauding DOD, allegedly bribing Qatari official
That’s on top of the $200 million levied in August for illegal exports to China and elsewhere.
Contracts