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The U.S. Navy intends to negotiate a potential five-year contract with Lockheed Martin for TRIDENT II D5 missile production, support tools and system deployment services. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the company’s space business will perform work through Sept. 30, 2024, if the contract is awarded. The Navy’s Office of Strategic Systems Programs seeks contractor support to build and […] More

Data Systems Analysts has landed a spot on a potential five-year, $249M contract to provide life cycle systems support to the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense. The company said it aims to support JPEO-CBRND and other joint project management offices located within and outside continental U.S. under the Joint Enterprise-Omnibus Program, […] More

Mike Gordon, deputy chief information security officer at Lockheed Martin, has said the company has collaborated with the Defense Department and some industry partners on a pilot program to provide DoD with a comprehensive view of the supply chain, Fifth Domain reported Sunday. The pilot program aims to help DoD know the companies that supply […] More

Companies such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have initiated measures to continue development work on defense contracts amid the rising security clearance backlog, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The National Background Investigations Bureau said the number of individuals seeking security clearances has climbed to nearly 500K in the past four years and the […] More

State and county officials in Maryland and representatives from the First Responder Network Authority and AT&T have organized an event to mark the state’s first anniversary of subscribing to the FirstNet platform. AT&T said Thursday the event recalls Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s approval of the adoption of the FirstNet network platform in the state in […] More

Harry Jenkins, test and evaluation command systems chair for the Army Evaluation Center’s mounted systems evaluation directorate, has said contractor testing-derived data combined with government insight could help the military speed up the acquisition process. Jenkins wrote in an article published Friday on DVIDS that BAE Systems came up with a detailed testing plan for […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has secured a $13.6M to provide life cycle management services for U.S. Army programs covering multiple ammunition product lines. Army Contracting Command received one bid for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online-based solicitation process, the Defense Department said Friday. SAIC will perform work through Dec. 4. 2023. The company received a $52M task […] More

Raytheon’s missile systems business has received a $62M contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to support form, fit and function upgrade work on the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile system. The modification exercises an option under a previously issued contract and covers phase 5 activities to refresh the missile’s guidance section, the Defense […] More

Advanced Technology International has issued a request for enhanced whitepapers regarding a consortium aiming to develop aviation and missile technologies for the U.S. military. The Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium consists of national armaments and vertical lift groups partnered with the U.S. Army on an effort to boost the combat performance of warfighters, the Department […] More

The U.S. Navy will christen two of its future Virginia-class attack submarines on Saturday at General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries locations. The service branch will christen USS Vermont at a General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., while USS Delaware will be christened at an HII Newport News Shipbuilding site in Newport News, Va., the […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on research efforts that involve hardware and software architectures with intelligent computing functions. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it seeks to determine the possibility of developing within the next 20 years a computer system that can reason and learn from experience, […] More

InfusionPoints has been listed as an Amazon Web Services public sector partner, a position through which the cybersecurity company would help government and nonprofit organizations develop and protect workloads with increased AWS support. The North Carolina-based firm said Thursday it garnered its position in the AWS Partner Network as a result of customer references, professional […] More