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The U.S. Coast Guard will continue to use Palantir-made data management and analytics software for another nine months under a potential $11.25 million contract renewal. Palantir said Thursday it has provided the military service access to its technology over the past year to help the branch manage resource data amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leidos announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a spot on potential $12.6 billion Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III (SITE III) contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The company will continue supporting DIA and compete for task orders to support the overall information technology (IT) program. SITE III runs for ten years and is a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
CloudBees will help the goverment with its adoption of DevSecOps capabilities as part of the U.S. Air Force's Small Business Innovative Research Phase 1 contract award. Michael Wright, director of public sector at CloudBees, said the company's Software Delivery Automation offering is designed to provide the Air Force, Department of Defense and other agencies with assistance in developing and implementing secure software.
A joint venture between CAE USA and Pinaccle Solutions has received a delivery order to update a suite of systems used to train U.S. Army personnel in watercraft operations. Xebec Government Services will refresh expeditionary fast transport, vessel defense and full mission bridge simulator configurations in the service branch's Maritime Integrated Training System, CAE said Tuesday.
Perspecta has secured a two-year, $17.9 million task order from the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific to develop, test, integrate and maintain software for Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command. The company said Wednesday the cyber tool development award is meant to help MARFORCYBER augment the command's operational performance in cyberspace.
An SES subsidiary will provide satellite communications support to a U.S. combatant command as part of a $35 million contract. Pete Hoene, president and CEO of SES Government Solutions, said the company aims to help military personnel transmit tactical data in real time using both GEO and medium earth orbit satcom platforms.
General Electric’s technology development arm will use 5G-enabled technologies to develop “smart warehouses” at two military installations that support the deployment of supplies and other resources for critical missions worldwide. GE Research's two projects worth $36 million combined are part of the Department of Defense’s $600 million 5G experimentation initiative announced in October and will take place at the Naval Base in San Diego and Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Georgia.
The U.S. Navy has selected Gibbs & Cox to provide maintenance support services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Philadelphia under a potential five-year, $20 million contract. Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity will support the center's materials, structures, environmental and protection department, the company said Tuesday.
Perspecta has secured a spot on a $700 million multiaward blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to help it conduct national security and background investigations. The company said Tuesday it offers a full range of services that agencies can use for detection, investigation and reduction of mission risks.
A Raytheon Technologies business will update the baseline Block 1 of the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System under a contract with the U.S. Space Force to facilitate the operation of GPS III Follow-On satellites. “The ground control upgrade will provide enhanced signal reliability, accuracy, integrity, advanced jam-resistant signals and effects-based operations,” said Sandy Brown, vice president of strategic systems at Raytheon Intelligence and Space.
BAE Systems has received a $76 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to develop additional vertical launch system (VLS) canisters. The award raised the contract value to $306 million and requires BAE to produce canisters for the Mk 13, Mk 14, Mk 25, Mk 29 and other hardware for the service branch, the company said Tuesday. The canisters are a critical component for storing, transporting and firing offensive and defensive missiles on the Navy’s guided-missile cruisers and destroyers.
The General Services Administration has declared its five-year, $5.5 billion Second-Generation Information Technology blanket purchase agreement as ready for business, two months after the agency re-awarded more than 70 positions on the governmentwide acquisition vehicle.
