The U.S. Navy has awarded Serco a potential $201 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technology services support for Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific anti-terrorism activities. The one-year base contract has four options of one-year terms each. According to Serco, the work will continue its life cycle sustainment support to NWIC Pacific’s Physical Security System-Enterprise Architecture...
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QinetiQ, KBR Team Up for Test and Evaluation Services for Australian Defense
QinetiQ and KBR have signed a new partnership agreement to collaborate on delivering test and evaluation services to the Australian Defence Force. Under the teaming agreement, the two companies will build their T&Es by sharing skills and expertise from their global and local experience. In a statement, QinetiQ Australia Advisory Services Managing Director Paul Angelatos...
US To Provide $2B Direct Loan for Poland’s Defense Modernization Program
The United States has announced a $2 billion direct loan agreement to advance Poland’s defense modernization efforts. The Foreign Military Financing loan will support the country’s upgrade plans for its military forces, according to the Department of State. The deal will also bolster NATO’s defense and deterrence in Europe’s eastern flank, the department said, adding...
Tony Scardino To Lead CGI’s Federal Consulting Business
CGI has appointed Tony Scardino as vice president and head of its federal consulting business. Scardino brings over three decades of leadership experience across private and public sectors to CGI Federal. “Tony’s experience across the federal enterprise is invaluable to CGI clients as they take advantage of the opportunities presented by an evolving government environment, technology...
Mavenir, Capgemini Lead 2023 5G Challenge Winners
The mobility team of Mavenir Systems, NewEdge, Radisys and Lions Technology won the $3 million top prize in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s 2023 5G Challenge research competition. A second mobility team comprised of Capgemini Engineering, JMA Wireless and QCT/Benetel also completed the competition’s Stage Four: Mobility challenge, but NTIA said it proclaimed the...
CGI Federal Extends Multiyear Digital Records Development for US Citizenship and Immigration Services
IT and business consulting service CGI Federal Inc. has secured a five-year task order from the Department of Homeland Security to continue the development of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ digital immigration records systems. Valued at up to $159 million, the award under the Alliant 2 contract vehicle’s Records Management Support Services task order...
SDA Awards $224M PWSA Support Contract to QinetiQ; Shawn Purvis Quoted
The Space Development Agency has awarded QinetiQ US a five-year, $224 million systems engineering and technical assistance contract to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a low-Earth orbit satellite mesh network that will deliver secured communications and missile warning and tracking capabilities to the United States and its allies. Under the firm-fixed price contract, QinetiQ...
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Holds LNG Plant Commissioning Ceremony
The Department of the Navy has commissioned a liquefied natural gas power plant at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. A ceremony was held on Sept. 7 at the military installation to mark the occasion, with Meredith Berger, assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment, among the military leaders present. Naval Facilities...
Serco Books $125M Deal to Develop Navy’s Force Architecture Concept, Shipbuilding Programs
Serco has secured a $125 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide naval ship design and integration support for the Naval Systems Engineering and Logistics Directorate. The IT service management company will assist the directorate’s Surface Ship Design and Systems Engineering Group in executing combatant ship integration efforts to fulfill the contract’s requirements. In...
CGI Federal’s All Payments Solution Gains FedNow Service Certification
CGI Federal’s cloud-based All Payments solution is now certified to support financial transactions on FedNow Service, the Federal Reserve Bank’s newly launched instant payments system, the company announced on Wednesday. CGI’s All Payments can be deployed across multiple cloud environments, enabling banks and financial institutions’ adoption of the FedNow Service to instantly facilitate credit transfers...