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Latest from the contracts & acquisitions desk

• Marine Corps Lifts M27 Rifle Contract Ceiling to $84.6M With Sole-Source Heckler & Koch Deal
  Awards · 2026-11-11

  The Marine Corps raised the ceiling on Heckler & Koch's sole-source M27 infantry automatic rifle IDIQ by $45.4 million to $84.6 million, keeping orders flowing through April 2028 w…

• Iowa 155mm Artillery Plant Contract Climbs to $741M as Army Adds $105.8M for MSM
  Awards · 2026-11-11

  The Army added $105.8 million to MSM Group North America's sole-source contract to design, build and commission a 155mm load, assemble and pack facility at Iowa Army Ammunition Pla…

• $26M Flyways AI License Goes Sole-Source to Air Space Intelligence for the 618th Air Operations Center
  Awards · 2026-11-10

  The Air Force issued Air Space Intelligence Federal a $26.02 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price order for cloud-hosted Flyways AI licenses for the 618th Air Operations Center at…

• $488M FAA ATLAS Legacy-Modernization Contract Goes to Deloitte After Live-Demo Challenge
  Awards · 2026-11-10

  The FAA picked Deloitte for a potential 10-year, $488.2M ATLAS contract to move at least 200 applications and 3,000 databases to cloud-native, AI-assisted systems, after a four-pha…

• GSA Watchdog Finds All 11 Sampled PBS Contract Files Incomplete After 49% Acquisition Staff Loss
  Enforcement · 2026-11-07

  GSA OIG audit A250037 found every sampled PBS contract file incomplete, 8 of 11 COR files mismanaged and 40 of 41 government estimates missing CUI markings, after PBS lost about 38…

• NASA Puts Three Firms on the Path to Replace Its Aging TDRS Ka-Band Relay Service
  Awards · 2026-11-07

  NASA awarded firm-fixed-price NEXUS contracts to Astranis ($264.3M), Global Enterprise Solutions ($340.4M) and Viasat ($460.9M) to develop Ka-band relays compatible with legacy TDR…

• $450M Space Force IDIQ Puts Viasat at the Center of the Golden Dome Space Data Network
  Awards · 2026-11-07

  Space Systems Command picked Viasat for a competitive IDIQ worth up to $450 million, with a $115 million first task order, to design, field and scale the Mission Operations Center …

• Pentagon FutureG Office Puts $50M+ Into 6G Sensing Prototypes as AT&T, Leidos, Nokia Federal, Peraton and IBM Join RAPID Teams
  Awards · 2026-11-07

  The Pentagon's FutureG Office is funding more than $50M for 11 teams to build integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) prototypes under NSC's RAPID program. AT&T, Leidos, Nokia…

• Navy Taps Lockheed for $122M Trident II Navigation Overhaul to Retire 1980s Gyro Navigator
  Awards · 2026-11-06

  Lockheed Martin will develop the Trident II Shipboard Integration Increment 8 navigation subsystem under a $122.4M sole-source Navy contract that replaces the early-1980s Electrost…

• $310M HH-60W Crew Training Task Order Goes to Phoenix Defense Ventures
  Awards · 2026-11-05

  The Air Force gave Phoenix Defense Ventures, a small business, a $310.5 million TSA IV task order to run HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter aircrew training at bases from Arizona to J…

• $1.28B ICE Air Charter Call Order Keeps Removal Flights With CSI Aviation
  Awards · 2026-11-03

  ICE obligated $277,971,276 on a new CSI Aviation call order for dedicated and on-demand removal charter flights, valued at $1.28 billion with options and running Nov. 1, 2026, to O…

• $8B Air Force Strategic Communications Terminals Restart Goes Sole-Source to Raytheon
  Awards · 2026-11-03

  The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center gave Raytheon a sole-source, $8 billion-ceiling IDIQ to modernize and restart production of Strategic Communications Terminals through 2036. On…

• Top Secret-Cleared Contractor Employee Admits Helping North Korean IT Scheme Win Nine U.S. Job Offers
  Enforcement · 2026-11-02

  John Allen Kurrle Jr., 62, of Gainesville, Va., pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for lending his identity and his home to a rem…

• $419M Army Enterprise Software IDIQ Goes to Pegasystems on a Single Bid
  Awards · 2026-11-02

  Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, awarded Pegasystems a $419 million firm-fixed-price IDIQ for software subscriptions, technical support and outcome-based services through Oct…

• NITAAC's CIO-SP3 and CIO-CS GWACs Close to New Orders as HHS Hands Remaining Work to GSA
  Policy · 2026-11-01

  NITAAC's CIO-SP3, CIO-SP3 Small Business and CIO-CS contracts stopped taking new orders Oct. 29. All HHS orders end Dec. 31, 2028, with no extensions. Non-HHS orders that run past …

• SBA Watchdog Finds Agencies Unsure Who Polices the Small-Business Subcontracting Cap
  Enforcement · 2026-11-01

  SBA OIG Report 26-19 found contracting staff misunderstood who monitors the limitations on subcontracting, raising the risk that pass-throughs go undetected. SBA plans a draft rewr…

• $945.9M Boeing MILSATCOM Sustainment Deal Goes Sole-Source Over Data Rights
  Awards · 2026-11-01

  Space Systems Command plans a sole-source award worth up to $945.9M to Boeing to sustain WGS and UFO satellites and ground systems, saying Boeing has repeatedly refused to sell the…

• Two USPS Corruption Pleas in Three Days: Packaging Contract Steering and $465K in Repair Kickbacks
  Enforcement · 2026-10-30

  A former USPS packaging official admitted steering contracts worth hundreds of millions to four companies through a relative's consulting firm, two days after the Justice Departmen…

• Navy Gives Lockheed Martin a Sole-Source $88.6M Radiant Mercury Cross-Domain Contract
  Awards · 2026-10-30

  Navy awards Lockheed Martin a sole-source $88.6M IDIQ to produce, install, modernize and sustain Radiant Mercury cross-domain systems through October 2029, citing the Only One Resp…

• $1.85B Family Health Plan Renewal Keeps Six Nonprofits Running USFHP Through 2027
  Awards · 2026-10-29

  The Defense Health Agency exercised third-year options worth $1.85 billion on six noncompetitive Uniformed Services Family Health Plan contracts, keeping Johns Hopkins, Martin's Po…