Industry News

The U.S. Army intends to launch a yearlong technology demonstration effort to evaluate Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport vehicles from four contenders as part of the program’s down-select process. The service branch said Thursday it chose four out of 10 SMET proposers through a “fly-off” event that took place in November 2017 at Fort Benning in Georgia. […] More

The State Department plans to award a sole-source potential five-year contract for facial recognition software to Idemia. The contract for the Facial Recognition (FR) program will include a one-year base performance period and four one-year options, DoS said through a notice posted on June 5 on the Federal Business Opportunities website. Work will include program management and […] More

Bechtel has announced plans to consolidate its corporate leadership teams and operations into a new global headquarters in Reston, Va., by the end of the year. The company said Thursday it will also transfer corporate positions from Houston and San Francisco to Virginia. Jack Futcher, chief operating officer of Bechtel, said the consolidation effort is […] More

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force‘s 418th Flight Test Squadron will collaborate to test the KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft. The service branch said Thursday it seeks to determine the tanker’s ability to receive fuel from a KC-10 Extender or a KC-135 Stratotanker platform. One Pegasus unit arrived May 23 at the Edwards AF Base in California and will stay […] More

TeraThink has secured a spot on the Defense Logistics Agency’s potential eight-year, $6 billion contract vehicle for information technology services through an asset purchase agreement. The company said Thursday it will compete for task orders to support DLA, service branches and other civilian agencies under the J6 Enterprise Technology Services contract that has a base term of […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton and UiPath have teamed up to promote the use of robotic process automation technologies to help federal agencies improve their processes and operations. UiPath said Thursday it will combine its RPA platform with Booz Allen’s information technology and management consulting capabilities to help agencies streamline the delivery of services to citizens and […] More

General Electric has unveiled a new company to help build traffic management systems designed to support the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace. AiRXOS operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of GE and has been tapped to serve as a partner on several programs to support the development of UAS traffic management […] More

A CACI International subsidiary has received a one-year, $48.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help the Naval Air Systems Command’s AIRWorks division deploy platforms intended to counter unmanned aerial systems. Six3 Advanced Systems will support the AIRWorks Rapid Development Capabilities Integrated Product Team in efforts to implement new and existing counter-UAS equipment to government facilities that help […] More

Lockheed Martin has announced plans to funnel approximately $460 million in tax reform law-related savings into several investment initiatives. The company said Thursday about $200 million of that savings will go to research-and-development programs and capital expenditures this year in addition to $100 million in funds that will be invested into Lockheed’s venture capital fund. […] More