Jane Edwards

Leidos has established a new program that aims to advance innovation, build up program performance and facilitate the delivery of technology platforms designed to meet clients’ mission needs with the use of the company’s supplier base. The company said Wednesday the Leidos Alliance Partner Network consists of corporate strategic, technology alliance and emerging technology partners. […] More

ManTech International has launched a new logistics center in North Charleston, S.C., to support the U.S. Army’s Vehicle Engineering Maintenance and Operations Support program. The logistics center is composed of two buildings with a combined space of approximately 310,000 square feet, including a central hub that houses parts for the service’s Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton executives believe talent recruitment and retention efforts will serve as a growth driver for the company moving forward, The Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “We feel really good about our overall capacity to attract and retain the right kind of talent,” Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski told analysts during an earnings call Tuesday. […] More

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has partnered with CAE, L3 Technologies’ Wescam subsidiary and Maxar Technologies’ MDA business to form an industry team that aims to meet Canada’s requirements for multi-mission remotely piloted aircraft systems. Team SkyGuardian Canada will offer the MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone for the Canadian armed forces’ RPAS project that seeks a medium-altitude, long-endurance […] More

The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a program to procure wing assemblies for the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the service intends to award a potential seven-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under the A-10 Thunderbolt Advanced-Wing Continuation Kit program. The IDIQ contract has a base ordering period of […] More

NASA has awarded $43.5 million in contracts to 304 proposals selected for the initial phase of the Small Business Innovation Research program and 44 proposals for the first phase of the Small Business Technology Transfer initiative. The SBIR and STTR Phase 1 contracts will run for six and 13 months respectively with up to $125,000 […] More

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Army will kick off field-testing in December of a lower-body exoskeleton designed to reduce users’ risk of injury and fatigue and boost their load-carrying capacity, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. The ONYX exoskeleton unveiled at the Close Combat Lethality showcase at the Pentagon is classified as a technological readiness level 6 […] More

Federal agencies awarded approximately $1.25 billion in information technology products and services contracts in the last month of fiscal year 2017 through NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract vehicle, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. BGOV’s analysis shows that approximately one third of all contract obligations made through SEWP V in fiscal 2017 were awarded in […] More