NCI Information Systems (NCI) has announced its team has initiated work on a new contract to provide command, control, communications, computers, cyber and intelligence/information technology (C5I/IT) systems for the U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC), the company announced on Tuesday.

“Futures Command is playing a critical role in advancing the transformation of modernization for Army systems and operations. We look forward to leveraging our deep customer expertise, together with our emerging technologies, to advance our nation’s warfighters’ mission,” said Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

The prime contract, awarded by the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command, has a 17-month period of performance. NCI will provide IT systems development and support services, including engineering, furnishing, installing, securing and testing for AFC’s C5I/IT systems as well as deliver integration of systems, project management support data, on-site training and equipment warranty.

“This is a really important milestone for us. It reflects on our great past work with the Army along with Army Futures Command, as well as their confidence in our expertise, exemplary work quality, and our highly-trained and talented NCI team, who are giving their all every day to support our customers across the federal mission landscape,” added Dillahay.

NCI has been ranked as one of the leading providers in deploying artificial intelligence to achieve more rapid and cost-efficient modernization of federal legacy systems using its proprietary and award-winning Shai philosophy.

The company was awarded one of the largest contracts in its history to help manage the Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise IT infrastructure. NCI will use its Shai philosophy to deliver on its “people first” commitment while harnessing next-generation, innovative AI solutions.

Under the four-year, $269.9 million prime contract from the Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) NCI will provide information technology support to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Joint Service Provider (JSP).

NCI will implement the latest technologies as well as industry best practices to simplify operations, improve efficiencies and help JSP manage the DoD enterprise IT infrastructure. The company will perform work at various locations within the National Capital Region, including the Pentagon, WHS’ Mark Center and Crystal City, Virginia.

“NCI is proud to support this critical mission and we look forward to delivering on our commitment of people first to meet JSP’s vision to Enable. Every. Mission.,” said Paul A. Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI. “We will implement new and innovative technologies, including our NCI Shai framework, to reduce administrative burden, automate repetitive tasks and share knowledge across the enterprise that will enable our team to deliver unparalleled support to JSP customers.”

About NCI

NCI is a leading provider of enterprise solutions and services to U.S. defense, intelligence, health and civilian government agencies. Informed by over 30 years of experience solving its customers’ most important and complex mission challenges, NCI has been at the forefront of operationalizing AI methodologies and numerical algorithms for the U.S. government, particularly in the areas of warfighter enablement, digital transformation, and advanced analytics.

From its Scaling Humans with Artificial Intelligence (Shai®) philosophy to accelerate AI adoption in the public sector, the company recently launched the NCI Empower™ platform. NCI Empower is an open-architecture platform to provide secure, containerized access to deploy AI solutions and produce a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. NCI is a mid-tier systems integrator headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and operates at locations across the globe.

KBR has been awarded a five-year, $128 million contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) to provide key weather data services through the National Mesonet Program, the company announced on Tuesday. This firm-fixed-price contract is a recompete of a contract the company previously won in 2017.

“KBR’s work will help the NWS more accurately forecast future weather events and equip decision makers with the right information to protect the planet and the people on it,” said Byron Bright, President, KBR Government Solutions U.S. and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

Under this contract, KBR and its public and private partners will supply local weather data from more than 50,000 surface-based, mobile and aircraft-based weather observation platforms in the U.S. and globally to the National Mesonet Program. The program is a central clearinghouse for non-federal weather data.

“The program is a model public-private partnership and we look forward to continuing this important program with KBR and all the partner networks,” he said.

KBR will partner with Synoptic Data PBC, Earth Networks, WeatherFlow and the University of Oklahoma, KBR will carry out this work over the next five years. The data that KBR will collect and analyze will play a critical role in the nation’s numerical weather forecasting and local monitoring infrastructure and will improve weather prediction, severe weather watches and warnings and emergency response for all regions of the country.

“The National Mesonet Program, now having grown to include four dozen networks since 2009, provides a valuable source of observations for improving National Weather Service warning and forecast operations,” said Dr. Curtis Marshall, the National Weather Service’s National Mesonet Program Manager.

For more than 30 years, KBR has worked with government agencies, including NOAA, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA, to cement their Earth science and data visualization operations.

In Feb. 2020, KBR was awarded a potential eight-year, $400 million contract by NASA to support research and development of intelligent systems at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California.

The company will provide the center with resources and technical services for the facility’s intelligent systems division to perform scientific research and develop technologies and applications. According to KBR, it will also help NASA integrate modern information platforms into agency missions and other federal government-backed projects.

“This contract award reflects the company’s stellar performance over the last decade. Through it, we will continue to assist Ames in propelling space exploration,” said Stuart Bradie, KBR president and CEO.

KBR recently partnered with NASA Johnson Space Center to provide human spaceflight operation services to commercial companies, becoming the first company to provide such support with the use of the agency’s facilities and platforms.

In addition, NASA asked the company to train private astronauts in various spaceflight tasks such as operation of onboard International Space Station systems, ISS crew integration, routine operational task performance, health maintenance and emergency response.

The company will also provide medical operations and services before, during and after spaceflights, as well as mission planning, training and execution. KBR will train astronauts for private space travel to the ISS.

KBR currently trains and provides medical support to NASA and ISS international partner astronauts and supports all planning and execution aspects of mission operations. The company will additionally provide specialized services to support the agency’s astronauts.

“This historic agreement is a testament to KBR’s long-standing partnership with NASA. We will continue to work together to propel NASA’s mission to fuel a low-Earth orbit economy and advance the future of commercial space,” Bradie said.

About KBR, Inc.

KBR is a global provider of differentiated professional services and technologies across the asset and program lifecycle within the Government Solutions and Energy sectors. KBR employs approximately 38,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across three synergistic global businesses: Government Solutions, Energy Solutions and Technology Solutions.