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• Northrop's F-16 Jamming Suite Tops $1.9 Billion After Combat Debut Over the Middle East
  Awards · 2026-09-27

  Northrop Grumman's $87.4 million production award pushes its F-16 jamming suite contract past $1.9 billion, following the system's combat debut over the Middle East and a congressi…

• Northrop Grumman Gets $124M for F-35 Radar Parts as New Jets Fly With Ballast Instead
  Awards · 2026-09-27

  The Navy handed Northrop Grumman $123.8M for long-lead F-35 APG-85 radar parts, even as new jets keep leaving the line with ballast in place of a radar and a Senate hearing found t…

• DLA Hands Ohio Steelmaker Metallus a $995M Sole-Source Deal for 155mm Shell Steel
  Awards · 2026-09-27

  The Defense Logistics Agency locked in Canton, Ohio's Metallus as the sole supplier of High Fragmentation 1 steel for 155mm artillery shells through 2031, a $995 million no-bid dea…

• $1 Billion NAVFAC Northwest Construction Contract Goes to 11 Small Businesses, From Idaho to Guam
  Awards · 2026-09-27

  NAVFAC Northwest awarded a $1 billion small-business construction contract to 11 firms — including an Idaho company whose name signals Native American ownership — covering waterfro…

• USPS Watchdog Finds $271.9 Million in Unsupported Contract Payments as Postal Service Skips Required Oversight Steps
  Enforcement · 2026-09-27

  A USPS OIG audit found 74% of sampled contractor invoices lacked required documentation, producing $271.9 million in unsupported costs, plus $792 million in noncompetitive purchase…

• DOJ Watchdog Finds FBI, BOP, USMS Kept Awarding Orders Under Expired Contract Vehicles
  Enforcement · 2026-09-26

  A DOJ inspector general audit found 37 of 45 sampled orders worth over $39 million had performance-period irregularities, including one FBI order awarded 23 months after its contra…

• USDA Puts $1B Behind New CPOC Cybersecurity Support BPA
  Awards · 2026-09-26

  USDA has named 25 companies, from Accenture Federal Services to boutique cyber firms, to a five-year, $1 billion blanket purchase agreement supporting its Cybersecurity and Privacy…

• $28 Million Space Force Contract Sends an Impulse Space Mira to Watch Geosynchronous Orbit
  Awards · 2026-09-24

  Space Force awarded Impulse Space up to $31.2 million, anchored by a $19.75M APFIT grant, to fly an MIT Lincoln Lab optical sensor on a Mira spacecraft tracking objects in geosynch…

• $876M Navy Modification Keeps L3Harris Building Next Generation Jammer Low Band
  Awards · 2026-09-24

  L3Harris won an $876 million undefinitized modification to continue Next Generation Jammer Low Band work for the Navy and Royal Australian Air Force, adding tooling, test pods, cyb…

• $315 Million Contract Sends Tutor Perini to Rebuild Coast Guard's Arctic Fuel Pier at Base Kodiak
  Awards · 2026-09-24

  The Coast Guard awarded Tutor Perini Corp. $315 million to rebuild Base Kodiak's fuel pier and cutter mooring, a four-year Arctic infrastructure project funded by IIJA, acquisition…

• $127M Army Extension Keeps Leidos Flying ARTEMIS Spy Jets Over Europe
  Awards · 2026-09-23

  The Army extended Leidos' contract worth up to $127 million to keep flying the ARTEMIS spy jet over Europe through summer 2027, continuing a mission Leidos has run since 2020 under…

• SpaceX Secures $946M NASA Modification for Three More ISS Crew Missions
  Awards · 2026-09-23

  NASA added Crew-15, Crew-16 and Crew-17 to SpaceX's Commercial Crew contract in a $946 million sole-source modification, pushing SpaceX's total CCtCap value to $5.92 billion with m…

• Army Hands Small Business Trideum a $400M Deal to Hunt Cyber-Electromagnetic Gaps
  Awards · 2026-09-23

  The Army awarded Huntsville small business Trideum Corp. a $400 million IDIQ to find vulnerabilities in cyber electromagnetic activities, an eight-year ceiling contract announced S…

• $41.5M Navy Contract Extends Industrial-Base Monitoring Software to Air, Formerly Govini
  Awards · 2026-09-22

  The Navy awarded a $41.5 million sole-source contract to Poplicus Inc., maker of the Ark platform now rebranding from Govini to Air, extending industrial-base monitoring and suppli…

• $300M Air Force Recompete Keeps CAE Training C-130H Aircrews Through 2035
  Awards · 2026-09-22

  The U.S. Air Force awarded CAE USA a $300 million competitive recompete contract extending its role as C-130H aircrew training provider through 2035, covering instruction, sustainm…

• Michigan Contractor Pays $5M in Record AbilityOne Fraud Settlement
  Enforcement · 2026-09-22

  Lifeview Group will pay $5,059,808 to resolve claims it lied about meeting AbilityOne's disability-labor ratio on a Defense Manpower Data Center IT contract, in one of the program'…

• $1.5 Billion USCENTCOM 'Apollo' Contract Goes to CACI to Speed Intelligence-to-Decision Cycle
  Awards · 2026-09-21

  CACI won a contract with a $1.5 billion ceiling to run USCENTCOM's Apollo program, speeding intelligence-to-decision cycles across a one-year base period plus four option periods a…

• Navy Adds $871M to Lockheed's F-35 Site-Activation Contract, No Competition Held
  Awards · 2026-09-21

  A Sept. 18 modification adds $871.2 million in ceiling capacity to Lockheed Martin's Navy IDIQ contract, funding the initial equipment and sustainment supplies needed to open new F…

• $125M ICE Surveillance-Data Deal Lands at TRSS After No-Bid Plan Collapses
  Awards · 2026-09-21

  ICE's $125 million, five-year data-analytics BPA went to Thomson Reuters Special Services as the sole bidder, about six weeks after the agency withdrew a no-bid sole-source plan fo…

• Postal Service Awards $500M Cisco Network IDIQ to World Wide Technology, No Competition Held
  Awards · 2026-09-19

  The U.S. Postal Service noncompetitively awarded World Wide Technology a five-year IDIQ worth up to $500M for Cisco network equipment and Smartnet maintenance, running Oct. 1, 2026…