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The CEOs of Northrop Grumman and IBM have jointly urged Congress to pass legislation that would reauthorize and update the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. Northrop’s Wes Bush, a four-time 2018 Wash100 recipient, and IBM’s Ginni Rometty wrote in a joint opinion piece published Friday on CNBC the proposed bill would fund CTE programs […] More

More than 10,500 existing vendors and 942 new contractors are expected to benefit from the General Services Administration’s decision not to require entities that update or create their registration on the System for Award Management website to submit a notarized letter before activation of their registration, Federal News Radio reported Monday. GSA will still require vendors […] More

Northrop Grumman has added an operational area to its Moss Point, Miss.-based manufacturing hub for fixed- and rotary-wing autonomous platforms. The company said Monday the expanded production facility can now accommodate projects on manned aircraft systems and will bring new jobs to the region. Kevin Mitchell, vice president of global operations at Northrop’s aerospace systems sector, said […] More

The Army Corps of Engineers has unveiled plans to award up to eight spots on a pair of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for facility architecture and engineering services. USACE said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it contemplates issuing four $30 million awards through an unrestricted competition and another four $10 million small business set-aside awards. Each IDIQ will have a […] More

The Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has requested information on systems that could help gradually prevent mishaps involving mobile surface and underground mining equipment. The DOL said Monday its request for information is part of an effort to provide safer working conditions for miners in the U.S., as well as to gradually reduce […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a two-year, $47 million contract to examine system and payload requirements for the first two polar space vehicles that will be built through the service branch’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program. Northrop will also conduct risk reduction efforts to support the Next-Gen OPIR initiative as part of the sole-source […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has delivered a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine slated for U.S. Navy commissioning in September. USS Indiana is the 16th Virginia-class submarine HII has built through a partnership with General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary and eighth craft that Newport News Shipbuilding handed over to the service branch, HII said Monday. The industry […] More

Systems Planning and Analysis has been included in The Washington Post’s Top Workplaces 2018 list, which is based on the results of an anonymous employee survey. SPA said Saturday it was selected among 50 other medium companies and received high ratings on leadership connections, employee development, company values and ethics, communication, pay and benefits, work-life balance and business […] More

Thomas Afferton, vice president of civil solutions at Northrop Grumman, has said the company will help update legacy systems at the State Department‘s Bureau of Consular Affairs through a potential 10-year, $850 million contract. “We look forward to drawing on our deep experience in modernizing systems for defense, intel and civilian customers and applying our unique tools […] More