Posts from GovConWire for 04/01/2016

DMEA Picks 8 Firms for $7B Follow-On Advanced Tech Engineering Services IDIQ

The Defense Microelectronics Activity has awarded contracts worth a total of $7.2 billion to eight companies to support the agency’s work on advanced technology insertions and applications for military systems…

President Obama Extends National Emergency on Foreign Cyber Threat Actors

President Barack Obama has released a notice to extend for another year the national emergency he declared in April 2015 through an executive order to address the rising incidents of cyber attacks launched by threat actors overseas…

Boeing Awarded $326M AF Delivery Order for 15K Lot 20 JDAM Tail Kits

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $325.8 million delivery order to Boeing (NYSE: BA) for 15,000 Joint Direct Attack Munitions tail kits under Lot 20. The Defense Department said Thursday the order builds on a previously awarded contract and will include technical and field support services through March 29, 2018…

Lockheed, Austal Land Navy Contract Modifications for Freedom, Independence LCS

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Austal have been awarded separate contract modifications to build two fiscal 2016 littoral combat ships for the U.S. Navy. Lockheed will build one Freedom-variant warship (LCS 25) under a $564 million contract modification and Austal’s U…

DoD Taps HackerOne to Help Run Pentagon’s Cyber Bug Hunting Program

The Defense Department has partnered with San Francisco-based company HackerOne to carry out a “bug bounty” program that will involve vulnerability identification and analysis on public DoD websites over a 20-day period…

Parsons Wins $63M MDA Capability Integration Contract

Parsons has won a $63.2 million contract to support the Missile Defense Agency‘s warfighter strategic integration directorate in the deployment and integration of missile defense capabilities into the military services…

Draper Lab Secures Avionics Software Dev’t Support Contract by NASA

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has landed a three-year, $38.7 million contract from NASA to provide avionics software development and operations support services. The Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control and Avionics Technology Development and Analysis II contract covers research, design analysis, simulation, integration, testing and certification services, the space agency said Friday…

March 31 Market Close: GovCon Index Narrowly Down to Notch 1Q Loss as Earnings Season Awaits

The GovCon Index had its three-day streak of gains halted Thursday with a slight decline of 0.302 points to 74.032 that ends the first quarter of 2016 in the negative as many GCI contractors prepare to detail their January-March financial results…