Posts from GovConWire for 08/26/2015

Army Picks Oshkosh for $7B Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Contract

Oshkosh Defense has won a much-anticipated potential $6,749,799,374.25 contract to build armored vehicles for the U.S. Army‘s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, the service branch’s initiative to replace the Humvee for itself and the Marine Corps…

Leidos Lands $450M Transportation Security IDIQ; Sam Gordy Comments

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a five-year, $450 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to deploy transportation security systems in a number of facilities. Leidos will work to install passenger and carry-on baggage screening technologies at airports, ports, terminals, cargo facilities and other checkpoints within the East region, Leidos said Tuesday…

NIST NCCoE Seeks Comments on Identity & Access Mgmt Guide for Energy Sector

The National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has opened the comment period for a draft guide on access control measures for energy companies to reduce cyber risk…

IARPA Seeks Rare Event Forecasting Methods

The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on existing methods for modeling and forecasting of low-frequency events. IARPA said Aug. 12 in a FedBizOpps notice it also seeks industry’s help to find alternative approaches to test and evaluate if rare event prediction techniques work…

Navy Awards Textron Subsidiary $581M Contract Modification for Helicopter, Fuel Kit Production

Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has been awarded a three-year, $581.1 million contract modification to build UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps and Pakistani military…

August 25 Market Close: GovCon Index Gives Back AM Gains, Nears Correction Territory

The GovCon Index‘s streak of declines extended to a sixth consecutive day Tuesday with a gain of 1.297 percent to 69.628 as U.S. stocks also plummeted late in the trading session. GovCon Index and GovCon Wire parent company Executive Mosaic has determined the Index to officially be near correction territory — 10 percent down from its most recent high — as it has declined 9…