Posts from GovConWire for 03/17/2016

Navy Selects 3 Firms for $1.3B San Diego-Based Warship Maintenance Services IDIQ

The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies spots on a potential five-year, $1.32 billion contract to help maintain amphibious warfare and surface combatant ships that dock in San Diego. The Defense Department said Wednesday that BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) unit NASSCO and Continental Maritime of San Diego, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), will support six classes of military combat vessels…

Raytheon Lands $573M Air Force Missile Production Contract Modification

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $573 million contract modification to produce additional Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles for the U.S. Air Force. The award exercises options for lot 30 of AMRAAM and related items, the Defense Department said Wednesday…

Lockheed Awarded $198M Navy Aegis Computer Baseline Development Contract Modification

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a potential three-year, $197.6 million contract modification to carry out computer program baseline development work on the U.S. Navy‘s Aegis combat systems…

NASA Picks 137 SBIR Research Proposals for Potential $104M Phase II Contracts; Steve Jurczyk Comments

NASA will move forward to contract negotiations for the potential $104 million second phase of its Small Business Innovation Research program for future deep space missions. The space agency has selected 137 research and technology proposals from 117 U…

FCW: John Edwards Succeeds Doug Wolfe as CIA’s CIO

John Edwards, a two-decade Intelligence Community veteran, took over as chief information officer of CIA in February, FCW reported Wednesday. Sean Lyngaas writes Edwards has worked on the technical operations and engineering aspect of CIA for nearly 15 years before he joined the private sector…

DARPA to Hold Proposers, Information Days on Tech Dev’t Program for Dismounted Squads

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct Information Days from March 29 to 30 and a Proposers Day on April 22 to discuss the Squad X Core Technologies program with potential contractors…

Cisco’s Data Center Mgmt Platforms Available on Avnet’s GSA Schedule

Avnet Government Solutions has added Cisco‘s portfolio of computing, storage and networking technologies for data centers to its General Services Administration schedule contract. Avnet said Wednesday the company and its partner resellers can now offer agencies Cisco platforms designed to manage information technology applications, virtual machines and cloud-based systems…