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DAF Requests Information on Potential $88M MOSES II Contract
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DAF Requests Information on Potential $88M MOSES II Contract

The Department of the Air Force. has begun seeking information on a potential seven-year, $88 million contract to provide operations and maintenance and research and development support services to the Air Force Technical Application Center, or AFTAC.

The Modeling, Software, and Engineering Support II contract covers technical services to support AFTAC’s nuclear treaty monitoring mission and R&D activities for advanced nuclear projects, according to a notice posted Saturday on SAM.gov.

O&M tasks under the MOSES II contract include the maintenance and sustainment of contract software across multiple AFTAC enterprise information infrastructures and enhancements to existing systems, modeling applications and databases.

R&D activities will cover model development, environmental chemistry modeling, statistical algorithms and advanced analytic methods, special tasking and scientific support.

Responses are due May 10.

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BAE Systems Wins $92M Navy Contract for LSD 50 Dock Landing Ship Maintenance Support
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BAE Systems Wins $92M Navy Contract for LSD 50 Dock Landing Ship Maintenance Support

BAE Systems has secured a potential $92.3 million firm-fixed-price contract action from the U.S. Navy to provide modernization, repair and maintenance support services for the USS Carter Hall (LSD 50), a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship.

Naval Sea Systems Command launched a full and open competition and received three offers for the USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) fiscal 2024 docking selected restricted availability, the Department of Defense said Monday.

BAE Systems’ Norfolk Ship Repair business will perform work in Norfolk, Virginia, through May 2025. It will provide all labor, equipment, production, supervision, testing, facilities and quality assurance support to meet the Chief of Naval Operations availability.

The contract has a base value of approximately $87.3 million.

Video: Doug Wagoner Explains LMI’s Strategic Pivot
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Video: Doug Wagoner Explains LMI’s Strategic Pivot

In 2022, LMI underwent a significant organizational shift as it entered the for-profit arena after six decades as a federally funded research and development center. In a new video interview, Executive Mosaic spoke with LMI CEO Doug Wagoner, a five-time Wash100 Award winner, to learn more about the company’s growth strategy, M&A opportunities and core values as LMI taps into its next phase of expansion.

According to Wagoner, LMI’s core values are built on the foundation of the company’s 60-year history as a not-for-profit organization. And today, those core values are still a guiding beacon for LMI as it moves into the for-profit space.

“Our mission focus, how we treat our people, high ethical standards — when you’re a non-profit, those are even more critical. And we continued that cultural identity as we went for-profit in 2022,” Wagoner shared with Executive Mosaic’s Summer Myatt. 

“A core reason why people come to work for LMI, why we enjoy a very low turnover rate, is that we do talk about those cultural elements. The management team reinforces those cultural elements. It’s just not something that we throw on the website. It is something that all of us take very seriously because we spend the public’s money and that’s a high bar for integrity and transparency. We take that very seriously,” Wagoner shared.

Wagoner went on to discuss the rise of artificial intelligence tools and technologies — including LMI’s own AI offering, LIGER — and the company’s expansion into the space market. 

He also revealed insights into LMI’s M&A outlook for 2024 as the company seeks to achieve greater penetration into the intelligence market. 

Watch Doug Wagoner’s full video interview for the latest insights from the leaders of GovCon. 

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DOE Seeks Stakeholder Insights to Improve Clean Energy Supply Chain
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DOE Seeks Stakeholder Insights to Improve Clean Energy Supply Chain

The Department of Energy Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains is seeking input from industry, academia and researchers regarding clean energy supply chain data and methods of analysis and has issued a request for information for the effort.

MESC said Friday that it will use the information it gathers to develop a heatmap that will inform opportunities for investment across clean energy supply chains. This assessment of investment opportunities is meant to serve as a follow-on to an analysis featured in the 2023 Supply Chain Progress Report.

Feedback will also be used to improve MESC’s supply chain analysis and respondents can use the opportunity to highlight gaps and other challenges affecting the supply chain for clean energy technologies.

Interested parties have until June 10 to submit responses.

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SpaceX Conducts Capability Demo as Part of In-Space Refueling Technology Development
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SpaceX Conducts Capability Demo as Part of In-Space Refueling Technology Development

According to Amit Kshatriya, deputy associate administrator for the Moon to Mars Program at NASA, SpaceX conducted a test on March 14 to demonstrate its ability to transfer propellant between tanks aboard Starship while in flight, SpaceNews reported Saturday.

Kshatriya told the Human Exploration and Operations Committee of the NASA Advisory Council on April 26 that the demonstration, which involved a planned transfer of at least 10 metric tons of liquid oxygen from a header tank within Starship’s upper stage onto its main tank, “was successful by all accounts.”

The demo, which SpaceX carried out under the terms of a NASA contract awarded in 2020, is part of a broader effort to develop technologies that would enable the refueling of Starship while in space, a capability that is crucial to future manned lunar missions using the spacecraft.

The next step in the effort will involve two Starships docking while in orbit, during which one will transfer propellant to the other. That demo is scheduled for 2025.

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GovCon Index Recorded Significant Growth Last Week
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GovCon Index Recorded Significant Growth Last Week

GovCon Index continued its upward trend last week with a 1.90% increase that lifted the average to $4,879.91.

GovCon Index is an aggregate index that tracks and presents real-time stock market data from 30 publicly traded government contracting companies. This information enables users to evaluate the performance of each individual entity while following key financial trends in the GovCon market.

With a notable 9.10% rise, Palantir landed the top spot in the ranks last week. CACI, which grew by 8.77%, followed closely behind, and AeroVironment (+5.10%) finished in third. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and BAE Systems, which both rose by 4.15%, tied for fourth place.

GovCon Index grew every day last week except for Wednesday, when it dipped by 0.56%. The highest growth day was Tuesday, when GovCon Index increased by 0.91%.

Check out last week’s market reports to get a closer look at daily GovCon Index performance. To view the full list of tracked companies, click here.

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Navy Lays Keel for 6th Expeditionary Sea Base Ship
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Navy Lays Keel for 6th Expeditionary Sea Base Ship

The U.S. Navy has laid the keel for its sixth expeditionary sea base vessel named after Hector Cafferata Jr., a Korean war veteran and a Medal of Honor recipient.

The keel authentication ceremony for the future USNS Hector A. Cafferata Jr. (ESB 8) was held at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, California, and was attended by the namesake’s daughter, Heather Cafferata, and granddaughter, Jessica Cafferata, as the ship sponsors, the Navy said Thursday.

ESB 8 will join the Navy’s fleet of mobile sea-based platforms that help deploy forces, supplies and equipment in support of aviation mine countermeasures and special operations force duties.

“We are honored that the late Hector A. Cafferata’s Jr.’s legacy will live on through this ship, and the keel laying is a first step of many milestones to come for this ship,” said Tim Roberts, strategic and theater sealift program manager within the Navy Program Executive Office Ships. “ESBs provide a critical capability to the fleet and provide increased flexibility to our Sailors and Marines.”

Construction of the Navy’s future USNS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7) is also underway at General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard.

Space Systems Command Delivers FORGE Framework to OPIR Battlespace Awareness Center
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Space Systems Command Delivers FORGE Framework to OPIR Battlespace Awareness Center

Space Systems Command’s Space Sensing program executive office has delivered a ground station framework to the Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center, a.k.a. OBAC, at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado.

The operational delivery of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution, or FORGE, framework on OBAC will provide enhanced cyber resilience and improved missile detection and tracking capabilities to operators, SSC said Friday.

FORGE is the first operational software to set up the foundation of the U.S. Space Force missile warning, tracking and defense architecture. The framework will support continued operations of the legacy Space Based Infrared System and the Next-Generation OPIR system.

“Timely response to threats requires a modern architecture capable of hosting data from a range of new and legacy sensors that enables the development of applications to address these threats. FORGE’s modular architecture with an agile development approach is showing that you can deliver fast even in tough, complex mission areas,” said Space Force Col. Robert Davis, program executive officer for space sensing.

Lt. Col. Morgan Sparks, FORGE materiel leader, said the next software delivery will provide a modernized operator interface and enhanced capabilities to improve the nation’s ability to “detect stealthier and additional quantities of threats sooner, and to track them longer.”

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Treasury, NSF Seek to Improve Insurance Risk Modeling Related to Cyber Risks, Terrorism
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Treasury, NSF Seek to Improve Insurance Risk Modeling Related to Cyber Risks, Terrorism

The Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office and the National Science Foundation have partnered to form a new research center that will provide research, thought leadership and analysis support to help the insurance sector enhance its insurance risk modeling and underwriting related to terrorism and cybersecurity risks.

The newly established Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, or IUCRC, will consist of stakeholders from the federal government, insurance sector and academia to help improve the U.S. financial system’s resilience through several efforts, the Treasury said Friday.

Efforts include helping insurers estimate risk to improve insurance coverage, pricing and policyholder uptake, contributing to the expansion of capital markets and reinsurance and informing the treatment of catastrophic cyber risks and terrorism in government programs.

Under IUCRC, university faculty and students will work with an industry consortium to perform research focused on the insurance sector’s needs.

The Treasury and NSF released a request for research proposals to provide research analysis and thought leadership on terrorism and catastrophic cyber risk modeling and underwriting.

According to a letter issued by NSF on Wednesday, the partnership expects research efforts that will stem from the new center to result in the development of best practices and tools, assessment of policy reforms that could provide governments, insurers and other stakeholders with new data and creation of improved underwriting and modeling tools, practices and methodologies.

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GSA Unveils Open Government Federal Advisory Committee; Krystal Brumfield Quoted
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GSA Unveils Open Government Federal Advisory Committee; Krystal Brumfield Quoted

The General Services Administration has started soliciting nominations for potential members of a new federal advisory committee, or FACA, that will advise the agency on open government initiatives, efforts to enhance public access to government records and data and advance equity in open government programs.

GSA said Friday the new Open Government Federal Advisory Committee is backed by the Open Government Secretariat Program Management Office and will operate in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

The new advisory panel will consist of representatives from the federal, state and local governments, academia and industry and will be selected based on their qualifications and backgrounds and FACA requirements.

“GSA looks forward to welcoming a diverse group of voices from civil society to this important new federal advisory committee,” said Krystal Brumfield, associate administrator for governmentwide policy at GSA.

“The OG FAC will allow GSA to tackle emerging open government issues, challenges, and opportunities through expert advice from these stakeholders. We look forward to receiving innovative suggestions on the development of the sixth Open Government National Action Plan as well as other efforts to strengthen open government policy and public engagement,” added Brumfield.

The GSA Open Government Secretariat will hold a virtual public meeting on May 10 to respond to questions regarding the timeline and selection process.

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