KBR

DOD sets industry day to preview potential $80B tech research vehicle

The Defense Department is pushing to create a new “competitive R&D ecosystem” with government agencies, companies, academic institutions, laboratories and non-traditional entities all involved.

  • By Ross Wilkers

NASA makes 16 awards for $1.4B consolidated logistics pact

The space agency set up this blanket purchase agreement to move away from 10 separate center-level contracts.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Tech, growth and operations leadership moves across the market

A handful of additions to boards of directors also feature in this listing of new key hires and promotions.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GAO gives Battelle narrow reopening to win $8B Antarctica contract

The Government Accountability Office rejected most of the challenges in Battelle's protest, but found the National Science Foundation improperly credited KBR with an affiliate's past performance record.

  • By Nick Wakeman

GAO tells NSF to re-evaluate $8B Antarctica award

The National Science Foundation apparently made enough missteps in its evaluation that GAO wants it to take a fresh look at proposals.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Tech, finance and growth leadership moves across the market

A trio of board appointments also feature in this listing, along with one company's designation of key executives for its Golden Dome pursuits.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Find opportunities — and win them.
Search Federal Contracts

KBR hires CEO, finance chief to lead government spinoff

KBR is positioning "SpinCo," the placeholder name for this future company, to enter the market on $5 billion in annual revenue with 20,000 employees.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Battelle challenges KBR’s $8B Antarctica contract win

The protester claims the National Science Foundation did not account for the potential impacts of KBR’s planned spinoff of its government business.

  • By Nick Wakeman

KBR wins $1.1B weather data collection recompete

The National Weather Service uses this contract to fuse data from both its own platforms and those operated by non-federal entities in order to fill coverage gaps.

  • By Ross Wilkers

KBR wins $8B Antarctica research recompete

KBR's government services unit beats out three other bids as it prepares to go it alone as an independent public company.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy chooses 16 for $350M 'Seabed to Space' systems contract

Awardees will perform technical work across the entire lifecycles of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force wraps up awards for $866M advisory, assistance contract

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center hires four contractors to aid its work in looking at air, space, missile and cyber issues.

  • By Ross Wilkers

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.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Featured eBooks
Sponsor Content

KBR wins $200M Transportation IT support recompete

Work will support the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, a key hub for advancing innovation and transforming the future of transportation systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

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.

  • By Nick Wakeman

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.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Pentagon chooses 7 for military data collection, analysis contract

Work under this contract directly supports the department's Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation.

  • By Ross Wilkers

If, Then: 2026's key pathways, questions and scenarios for GovCon

The covers are off for edition number six of this annual exercise to start a new year by looking at major signposts and the directions they point us to.

  • By Ross Wilkers

KBR wins $350M USGS satellite support recompete

The U.S. Geological Survey uses this contract to acquire resources for its centralized imagery sharing hub.

  • By Ross Wilkers

NASA agrees to take a second look at its $1.8B COSMOS contract following protest

Incumbent KBR successfully challenged the award to Ascend Aerospace & Technology, prompting the agency to review its evaluation and best-value determination.

  • By Nick Wakeman

KBR plans spinoff of government business

This new, independent publicly-traded company would hit the market by mid-to-late 2026.

  • By Ross Wilkers