Kacey Roberts

Visionist, a Columbia, Maryland-based software company, has received a four-year, $70 million prime contract from the Department of Defense to upgrade a voice communication system used for intelligence missions. More than 30 technical personnel will be tasked to perform voice-based processing application development and additional technical services are expected to occur through 2024, the company said […] More

Planned Systems International has secured a $91.7 million recompete contract to continue operating, maintaining and developing the command and control mission systems of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. The single-award task order will extend PSI’s technical services in support of AFSOC’s mission and priorities including content management, cloud migration as well as research, development, […] More

The U.S. Agency for International Development has increased the ceiling value of a humanitarian assistance blanket purchase agreement with PM Consulting Group to $100 million. Under the five-year BPA, the company supports USAID and partner countries in conducting humanitarian response efforts throughout the Middle East North Africa region, PMCG said Tuesday. PMCG noted it will […] More

Veraxx Engineering, a flight training-focused company, has received a multiyear, $40.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to modernize the Marine Corps’ aviation training systems and devices. The company will complete a baseline version of the Marine Corps Tactical Environment for four USMC aircraft wings and integrate the TEn system into the service branch’s aviation training platforms, […] More

An HII business unit has received a one-year, $15.3 million contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps develop plans and policies, for responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive events. HII Defense and Federal Solutions will provide other technical services to the branch’s CBRNE Consequence Management Program, the Department of Defense said Monday. The group will […] More

Five companies have secured 18-month grants from the U.S. Army to continue developing prototypes of mission critical technologies as part of the second phase of the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The service branch said Thursday it awarded up to $1.7 million to each SBIR participant to support the transition of artificial intelligence and machine […] More

Palantir Technologies has received a two-year, $99.9 million contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to extend the application of its data artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to users across the globe, particularly the Department of Defense’s combatant commands. The software company said Thursday the contract builds on its earlier partnership with the research lab […] More

Leidos has secured a potential 66-month, $53 million task order from the U.S. Navy to study warfighters’ performance in air, water and special warfare settings and help increase their survivability in the mentioned environments. The company said Wednesday it will collect and analyze data, perform statistical analysis as well as provide computer programming and scientific reporting […] More