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Huntington Ingalls Industries has cut the first 100 tons of steel for the 13th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock as part of the ship’s fabrication start. LPD 29 or the Richard M. McCool, Jr. entered fabrication on July 30 in Pascagoula, Miss., under a design and construction contract awarded to the company on April 21, […] More
Peraton has received a $9.45 million contract to provide automation tools for the Justice Department‘s intrusion analysis and malware triage activities. The company said Monday its analysts will help DOJ examine details of computer and network intrusions, as well as manage the full life cycle of digital media. “Countering sophisticated cyber threats requires advanced technical […] More
The U.S. Army has awarded AECOM a five-year, $27 million contract to provide architect-engineer remediation services for military munitions and hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste. Fourteen bids were submitted to the Army Contracting Command for the project slated for completion by July 26, 2023, the Defense Department said Friday. Leidos received a separate five-year, $27 million contract […] More
The Defense Department’s Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization has collaborated with Hortonworks to implement an enterprise information technology platform equipped with the Hadoop data management software and other open-source tools, Federal News Radio reported Friday. The report noted the use of such open-source tools has helped JIDO to focus more on the deployment of mission capabilities to warfighters […] More
Cal Shintani, chief growth officer at HighPoint Global, said a section within the Office of Management and Budget‘s Circular A-11 provides a roadmap that federal agencies can use to deliver tailored customer experiences and services that surpass that of private sector institutions. Shintani wrote in an article that agencies should conduct journey mapping activities to develop trusted […] More
Richard White, president of SSL Government Systems, said the development of on-orbit servicing technology can help accelerate innovation efforts meant to support future space missions, Geospatial World reported Friday. White added an SSL-designed servicer will work to integrate with government and commercial spacecraft in orbit. NASA awarded the Maxar Technologies subsidiary a five-year, $127 million […] More
The General Services Administration will hold an industry day on Aug. 7 in Washington, D.C. to seek feedback on a follow-on contract for the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements and Operations program. A FedBizOpps notice posted July 19 says GSA will provide industry stakeholders an overview of the proposed scope of work and seek insights on […] More
Kathy Warden, president and chief operating officer of Northrop Grumman, has said the company considers hypersonic missiles as a promising business line, USNI News reported Saturday. Warden, a three-time Wash100 recipient, told analysts at a conference call that Northrop’s innovation systems business, formerly Orbital ATK, expands the defense contractor’s portfolio of products into hypersonics. “We have […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $9.6 million contract to L3 Technologies and a $9.2 million contract to Boeing to supply flight training systems designed to train EA-18G pilots on tactical missions. Each company will provide two EA-18G tactical operational flight trainers and Boeing will also build one brief/debrief station for the service branch, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Air […] More
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon intend to separately respond to a solicitation for new active electronically scanned arrays for the U.S. Marine Corps’ fleet of legacy Hornet aircraft, Flightglobal reported Friday. The service branch issued a request for proposals in early July for advanced AESAs as part of a modernization requirement for 88 Boeing F/A-18C/Ds. Raytheon seeks to offer […] More
Adam Clater, chief architect of Red Hat’s North American public sector business, said the Trump administration’s move to enact the Modernizing Government Technology Act will help empower agency chief information officers to invest in information technology modernization programs. He wrote in an opinion piece posted Friday on Nextgov that MGT Act provides funds for federal agencies […] More
Dewberry has secured a position on a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army‘s Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Ala. Fairfax, Va.-based Dewberry said Friday it is one of three contractors who will vie for work to engineer building automation, electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems for the Defense Department and […] More
