Aeyon has received a prime contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps improve financial reporting and achieve audit readiness through the adoption of intelligent automation and data analytics tools. The company said Friday it will assist the Execution Analysis Branch of the Budget Execution Division within the USMC Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources in addressing audit issues through data quality improvement efforts.

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CGI Federal has concluded a real-time pilot set in a planetary-scale Metaverse space with the U.S. Marine Corps. To conduct the pilot, CGI and partner organizations Microsoft and Battle Road Digital incorporated the Marine Corps Platform Integration Center logistics and asset management systems with digital twins, the company announced from Fairfax, Virginia on Friday.

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Aeyon and its partners will provide the U.S. Marine Corps with cybersecurity and information technology risk and analysis support in an effort to boost its digital capabilities, enhance internal controls and strengthen cybersecurity posture. The company will work with Black & Rossi, Spry Methods and Zen Strategics as well as the USMC's Deputy Commandant for Information under a contract from the Information, Command, Control, Communications and Computers division.

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Nine small businesses have won positions on a five-year, $99.2 million contract to support a U.S. Marine Corps directorate responsible for developing and integrating warfighting systems. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract encompasses technical, analytical and engineering services to USMC’s Capabilities Development Directorate over an ordering period of five years, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Marine […] More

Nine small businesses have won positions on a five-year, $99.2 million contract to support a U.S. Marine Corps directorate responsible for developing and integrating warfighting systems. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract encompasses technical, analytical and engineering services to USMC's Capabilities Development Directorate over an ordering period of five years. More

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has handed over the first of the eight unmanned aircraft systems being manufactured for the U.S. Marine Corps. Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday the MQ-9 Reapers are intended to perform long-distance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions as well as data relays in the Indo-Pacific Command area. The first delivered Reaper […] More

Michael McCalip, Navy relationship executive at Carahsoft Technology, said information technology professionals from government and industry could support the U.S. Marine Corps as the service branch moves to achieve its goals this year, such as improving cybersecurity, advancing expeditionary contracting and prepositioning and acquiring a minimum of 31 amphibious combat ships. “For example, transforming cybersecurity […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has tapped General Atomics’ aeronautical systems unit to help the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command perform service-level training exercises for future dynamic missions. The company’s MQ-9A unmanned aircraft system was contracted for training use to integrate Group 5 unmanned aircraft into the Marine Air-Ground Task Force for the first time, General […] More

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary handed the eighth and ninth CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters to the U.S. Marine Corps in December 2022. Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina, will serve as the home base of both aircraft and the manufacturer is on schedule to deliver additional King Stallion units to the service this […] More

The Army Contracting Command has begun a market survey on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps to seek information on potential industry sources that could meet the requirement for an advanced reconnaissance vehicle and solicit feedback on the draft performance specification for the ARV. USMC is eyeing the development of a next-generation combat vehicle system […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps received a prototype of the Cottonmouth advanced reconnaissance vehicle that a Textron unit designed to support the service branch’s Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle program.  Textron Systems made the delivery on Dec. 1 at the Nevada Automotive Test Center in Silver Springs, Nevada, the company said Thursday.  Cottonmouth provides lightweight multi-modal capacity and […] More

Luis Lara, a nearly three-decade U.S. Marine Corps veteran, has been appointed director of business development at CGI’s federal subsidiary. The retired colonel shared the news of his appointment at CGI Federal in a LinkedIn post. Lara served as program manager for training systems at Marine Corps Systems Command from June 2018 until his retirement […] More